These crackly crinkle top brownies are super moist, uber chocolatey and the perfect size to pop in your mouth for a quick treat!
My love for a good brownie runs deep. It’s seriously one of my favorite sweets to make… right up there with chocolate chip cookies! These crinkle top brownie bites are soft and chewy on the inside and just slightly crispy on the outside, which is the perfect combo if you ask me. It’s basically a bunch of corner brownie pieces if you really think about it. And because there is no such thing as too much chocolate in my book, these little mini morsels of delicious chocolate brownie are sprinkled with a few chocolate chips throughout just for good measure.
They are super easy to make and only require one pot so there is minimal cleanup, which we love!! They are finished baking in about 15 minutes which means you can have these prepped and ready to eat within 20 minutes flat! I mean it doesn’t get better than that!
Plus, these bite-sized brownies are the perfect sharing dessert to bring to your next gathering since they can be made at a moment’s notice and everyone can pop one right into their mouth. They taste way better than the store bought brownie bites, and take just as much time to make, if not less, as you would spend going to the store and buying a box.
Now let’s break down a few commonly asked questions:
- Can you freeze Crinkle Top Brownie Bites?
- You sure can! Once these are baked, removed from the pan and cooled, you can pop them into a zip top bag or tupperware and place them in the freezer. They’ll last for weeks if you’re able to not eat them all!
- How do you get brownies out of mini muffin pans?
- Good question – that’s a key part to making these brownie bites. You’ll want to 1: use a muffin pan that’s non stick (linked below) and 2: spray it with non stick baking spray to be extra sure that these are easy to remove!
- How much batter should I scoop into each muffin tin?
- I use a 2-3 tablespoon cookie scoop to scoop the batter into the muffin tins.
- What kind of chocolate chips do you use?
- Use whatever you prefer – I like semi-sweet or dark chocolate, but milk and white chocolate are delish too! You can also omit the chocolate chips if you prefer.
- Can you stuff Crinkle Top Brownie Bites?
- You sure can! The recipe below is stuffed with chocolate chips but you can also stuff these with any other kind of chocolate, caramel, peanut butter, butterscotch etc. Just use smaller pieces of chocolate or candy and press them down into the muffin pan once you’ve filled the cavities with the brownie batter,
- Need a mini muffin pan?
- This one is my favorite and it’s super non-stick which makes it very easy to remove these!
- And if you’re a fan of brownies just as much as I am here are a few other brownie recipes that you’ll love:
Crinkle Top Brownie Bites
Ingredients
- 10 tablespoons unsalted butter,
- 1 1/4 cups white sugar
- 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs
- 1/2 cup all purpose flour
- 1/2 cup Chocolate Chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and spray a mini cupcake tin with non-stick baking spray.
- Melt the butter in a medium pot. Once melted, add the sugar, cocoa power and salt and mix until smooth. Remove from heat.
- Add the vanilla and eggs and combine. Add the flour and Chocolate chips until no more flour is visible.
- Using a spoon, scoop the brownie mixture into the mini cupcake tins and bake for 12-15 minutes. Run a knife along the edge of the mini Crinkle Top Brownie Bites to lift it out of the pan and let cool on a cooling rack before serving.
those are so cute! absolutely perfect for the big game 🙂
How cute are these!
Oh my gosh I love these!
I just want to confirm that it should be 1 tbl of bitter not 10? I had to reread a bunch of times to make sure I’m not seeing it wrong!
10 tablespoons of butter. it’s correct as written in the recipe
the whole world has gone superbowl crazy – but have to admit these are very cute!
Perfect for game day!
I wouldn’t complain about any brownie made for me! They are all yummy!
So stinking cute!
Now design a muffin pan in the shape of a football!
I just found your blog on twitter and am officially hooked from this post! What a great idea- so simple yet so creative. Looking forward to following you in the future!
Those are so cute. I love what you’ve done with them.
These are so cute! Dangerous though, because I’m sure you can eat more than a fair share in no time!
What a great idea! and perfect for munching during the game!
YUM! I like any kind of brownie, and I am definitely going to have to try these, they are just the right size!
Ha! Love the football markings on those stellar brownies!
These are so very, very cute. I am all for the more chocolatey & fudgey brownies like these.
This is such a cute & creative idea!
Totally adorable! I love how these are dainty enough for the gals, but manly in design to satisfy the guys, too! 😉
Love your little football brownies.
So cute!! Definitely making these – they’re in the oven right now!! I’m sure everyone’s going to love them.
how many servings is this recipe for? looks amazing!
The recipe says it serves 12 so I would assume the recipe makes 12 brownies.
I figure about 2 brownies per person! So the recipe yields 24 🙂
Thank you for sharing this fantastic recipe! I just bought a gold touch mini-muffin pan from Williams-Sonoma and have been on a minii-brownie bite craze trying all sorts of recipes & your recipe wins as the best ever! I only modified it slightly because of what we had on hand & exchanged the choc, chips for ground up 60% cocao ghiradelli choc. & added walnuts because my guy likes it that wa (always use dutch proc. cocoa). Wow! These knocked our socks off & will forever use your recipe On a huge choc. high here & only had two. The W/S pan rocks. I have a very small pocket oven & am challenged with items cooking evenly & each one of these brownies were cooked to perfection without variations that I’ve experienced with other pans.
What is AP flour?
all purpose!
Oh Duh! I was going to ask the same question. Lol
Assuming you must mean 24-count mini-muffin pan? I began to fill my pan of 12 and obviously needed an additional pan. As I am baking them they are rising over the edge. Hope I will be able to run the knife alongside the edge without problems. Batter was nice and rich and I’m sure they will taste yummy! Fingers crossed that they can be removed so they look as nice as those that are pictured!
Tasty and mini cute for all occasions
Do you have a white chocolate recipe?
sure thing! https://dev.afterhoursagency.com/wgc/?s=white+chocolate
Where is the recipe for the cream cheese frosting? Please share. 🙂
These look adorable. Can’t wait to try making a batch!
thanks.
its just
4 ounces unsalted butter, softened.
4 ounces cream cheese, softened.
2 cups powdered sugar.
1 teaspoon vanilla extract.
whip together until smooth!
Will the cream cheese frosting harden or does it stay soft? I’d like to stack a ton of these and I’m worried the design will be crushed. Thank you!
it doesn’t harden too much, so I’d avoid stacking if possible
OMG- these were decadent! Used sharfenberger cocoa and Giradelli semi sweet chips. Doubled the recipe and made 38 mini bites. Made some plain. Added walnuts to some. For the last third (my fav) I made salted caramel brownie bites, Took some caramel chips and buried 2 inside with one on top and ground some gray salt on top after they came out of the oven (Maldon flakes would probably work as well).
This recipe is a keeper!!! Thank you!
I was thinking of adding Peanut buttee chips to this. Do you think this would work?
Thanks!
totally
I make these every time we have a party. They are loved by all.
I add 1 t cinnamon and 1 t instant coffee to the batter.
Instead of cream cheese frosting, we pipe apricot jam and melted chocolate on. We say they’re black forest brownies.
We make these all the time – love love love them! Would the recipe work for a full tray of brownies vs. brownie bites? Any adjustment to amounts/temp/baking time? Thanks so much!
totally would work!! same temp, but bake for 25-30 minutes in an 8×8 or 9×9 pan
This is the bests brownies I ever eat. They are moist, sweet, perfectly cooked. I totally recommend these brownies!
I made these and they taste great but i had trouble getting them out of the mini tins. I already used a nonstick metal mini cupcake pan and sprayed pam. The recipe said to run a knife and let cool but dont know if i needed to cool it down before running a knife so i assumed to run the knife right after it comes out of the oven. I did so and tried to lift them up and it just became so crumbly. I knew it wasnt overcooked because it was still moist, it wasnt just holding its shape. I have an electric oven so i decided to turndown the heat to 340 degrees and it turnout a little better but still a little hard to not get them crumbly…
next time let them cool entirely before running a knife around the edge and popping out!
This is such an easy recipe and they are so delicious! I put a bit of chocolate frosting on them and sprinkled crushed up candy cane for a yummy but easy holiday treat.
Wanting to try these but don’t know how many it makes.
roughly 2 dozen
These look so yummy and a perfect recipe to do with my grandkids!
I’m curious, what is in the small little bowls next to the brownies that is white?
I love all of your brownies. Will this keep me from eating the entire pan??