New Chocolate Bliss Brownies

[Happy Chef]

At the Test Kitchens workshop they suggested variations using Hershey Kisses, mini Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, just about any small chocolate candy.

Also try substituting chopped pretzels for the nuts.
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Posted at Chef Success by raebates

[dannyzmom]

I love the chopped pretzels idea - espeically if you are dealing with a crowd with nut allergies...

[ShanaSmith]

I want to try making them in the mini muffin pan to take to businesses. I think the pretzels would be great too, but you might have to eat them quickly so they don't get stale... probably not a problem!

[Chef Karen]

I made these at my meeting last week and we all agreed that you could subsitute a brownie mix with chocolate chunks instead of chopping chocolate chips and adding them to the batter. That way you are only chopping the nuts. I try to use each tool only once in the demo.

Karen

[ShanaSmith]

good call, or just put the darn things in whole. I didn't like chopping the chips either

[bethcooks4u]

I didn't bother chopping the chocolate chips and it turned out great! I am making this recipe at 3 of my August shows - I never bake or do chocolate in the summer but this is to die for and my hosts wouldn't talk about anything else once I mentioned this chocolate and caramel recipe.

[dannyzmom]

What are some tools to add-on to the demo or to cross sell to make it a higher $-value demo?
I am thinking:
-have the veg oil in a prep bowl to brush it from
-measure the liquids in the Easy Reads
-measure brown sugar in the Measure All
Mix with Mix n Scraper
-spoon melted chocolate into Decorator Bottles (using a small bamboo spoon to drizzle it into decorator bottle)
-serve with cool whip out of EAD and/or vanilla ice cream using Ice Cream Dipper

thoughts?

[bethcooks4u]

Use the larger of the two funnels to put the melted chocolate in the decorator bottles.

Stackable cooling rack

Round up trivet under the pan on the serving table

Hot pad trivet and oven mitt to transfer hot pan

kitchen shears to open bags, twixit clips to reclose them

Easy read measure cups to hold the nuts or candies

microplane to shave more chocolate on top (or nuts)

kitchen spritzer to spray the pan with oil and then the silicone brush to show brushing it if they don't have a spritzer.

appetizer plates and caddy to serve (in August to promote bookings - later to show this hot item)

[cmdtrgd]

The test kitchens also said to use a Forged Knife to chop the nuts and the chopper for the chocolate.