These Haunted Forest Halloween Brownies are so stinking cute! Easy to make and perfect for your Halloween party food, or afternoon sweet snack. The kids will love these fun treats.
Haunted Forest Halloween Brownies
If you’re looking for Halloween party treats, you might like Crescent Roll Witch Hats, Pumpkin Patch Brownies, or even this Delicious Halloween Candy Bark.
You can add the decorations to a pan of brownies or wait until you’ve cut it into squares and removed them from the pan to decorate each one.
Tips and tricks for making Halloween Brownies:
- use a box brownie mix and make the cake-like version of the recipe – usually, that just means you will add one more egg to the batter
- you’ll get more brownies if you use a 13×9-inch pan
- grease the pan
- wait until the brownie has completely cooled before frosting
- melt an entire 11-12 oz. bag to get several haunted trees
- use wax paper to make trees on and use a candy squeeze bottle
- add candy eyes to trees for a cute haunted tree, and add black frosting eyebrows to make them appear angry
- use red nonpareils for bat eyes
- decorate candy pumpkins with cookie frosting to make Jack-O-Lanterns
- add decorated candies to your batch of brownies or individual brownie squares
How many trees will you need?:
- It depends. If you just want to decorate the pan, then 4 to 5 will do. If you plan on making haunted squares, then you’ll probably need at least 12
How much chocolate should I melt?
- If you are only making 5 trees, then you can probably melt 4-6 oz.
- For 1 dozen or more trees, melt the entire 12 oz. bag
Are you ready to make these cute Halloween Treats? Let’s make sure you have everything you’ll need:
Ingredients you need…
- prepared pan of brownies
- chocolate frosting
- bag of brown chocolate melts (or 12 0z. of melting chocolate)
- wax paper
- candy squeeze bottle
- candy eyes
- black cookie frosting
- candy pumpkins
- red candy nonpareils
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Haunted Forest Halloween Brownies {So Cute!}
Equipment
- wax paper
- candy squeeze bottle
Ingredients
- 1 9×13 in. prepared pan of brownies cooled – I used milk chocolate brownies
- 1 16 oz. chocolate cake frosting
- 1 12 oz. melting chocolate brown
- candy eyes
- red nonpareils – sometimes called candy pearls
- 15 candy pumpkins
- 1 7 oz. black cookie frosting
Instructions
- Prepare brownies in a 13×9 inch pan and cool completely
- while those are cooling, prepare decorations
- place wax paper on your work surface
- melt chocolate melts in a glass microwavable proof bowl
- pour melted chocolate into a squeeze bottle
- using the squeeze bottle, start making trees onto the wax paper
Trees:
- using the melted chocolate in the squeeze bottle, make a line that’s about 4 inches tall going up and down on wax paper
- make the line wider by continuing to go up and down on either side with more chocolate – you are making the main trunk
- at the top make a large V for 2 branches, add more lines of chocolate to your brances for added thickness
- make small Vs at the end of the branches
- add more branches to your tree, sprouting off of the main trunk
Adding Decorations to Trees:
- while chocolate trees are still warm and melted, add candy eyes – the white candy eyes to the center of the tree and the red candy eyes in the branches
- when the trees have completely hardened, add black eyebrows to make the tree appear angry
Pumpkins:
- use cookie frosting to make Jack-O-Lanterns – making round eyes and a long oval mouth
Decorating brownies:
- frost the brownies
- either place decorations directly onto the big pan, by pushing them down into the frosted brownies
- Or, cut brownies into squares and decorate them individually
Notes
Nutrition facts are only an estimate
Storing:
store brownies, covered, at room temperature for up to 3 daysOptional added decoration:
- add crushed Oreos for dirt
How many trees will you need?:
- It depends. If you just want to decorate the pan, then 4 to 5 will do. If you plan on making haunted squares, then you’ll probably need at least 12
How much chocolate should I melt?
- If you are only making 5 trees, then you can probably melt 4-6 oz.
- For 1 dozen or more trees, melt the entire 12 oz. bag
