As if Valentine’s Day last week wasn’t cause enough for a chocolate binge, this week I continued the pure chocolate insanity in our house with making gooey chocolate brownies…in my crockpot… cause really why not? And today is actually my One and Only’s birthday (read: my husband) and we are giving chocolate yet some more love by presenting him with a warm fire of candles lit on top of more delicious chocolate in the form of a ridiculous triple chocolate cake tonight…my tummy hurts already.
He’s 36 today…funny story, last year we put 35 candles on top of his cake and I had the kids help me oh-so-carefully carry out his cake (all candles lit mind you) to him while singing…this took a while if you can imagine since we obviously didn’t want the cake face planting it on the kitchen floor, talk about a fire hazard. Now if you haven’t already realized this about us, we are quite the picture taking family…eveything gets a picture, no lie. You would laugh at the amount of photo albums and boxes upon boxes of un-photo album-ed pictures we have pre-digital camera age. It’s sad…no scary? no weird of us? Yeah, let’s just say weird 😉
Anyways, by the time the cake got to my husband at the table and our picture taking frenzy ended the cake was half melted. And it wasn’t even an ice cream cake, ha! Good ‘ol buttercream under the intense heat of 35 candles AND a short walk to the table with toddlers AND picture-taking insanity from the likes of us just doesn’t stand a chance we found out that day. Let this be a lesson to you. That cake wasn’t very edible after that. Okay…so back to the brownies…
They look good don’t they? And seriously from the crockpot, for reals. No square or rectangular brownies here, nope, no sir-eee! Only brownies made in the round…cut into pie slices, could anything be more fun? I’m sure there is but for now let’s just say this is pretty high up there in fun awesomeness. Thanks.
Crockpot Brownies
Recipe Type: Dessert
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Adapted from Martha Stewart’s Everyday Food
Ingredients
- 8 oz bittersweet chocolate, chopped
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, cut into pieces
- 1 cup sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 1 cup walnuts, chopped (optional)
- 1 cup chocolate chips
- 1 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 3/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
Instructions
- Coat the inside of your crockpot with cooking spray.
- Line the bottom with parchment paper and coat the top of the paper with cooking spray.
- Melt chocolate and butter together in the microwave in a microwave-safe bowl, stirring after 30 second intervals, until chocolate is melted.
- Add in sugar and mix well.
- Then add in eggs and mix well. Set aside.
- In another bowl, mix together flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt.
- Add in walnuts and chocolate chips and mix well.
- Pour dry ingredients into wet ingredients and stir until just combined.
- Pour into crockpot and smooth top.
- Cover and cook on low for 3 hours.
- Uncover and cook for 30 minutes.
- Insert a knife edge around brownies to loosen and place the crock (out of the pot) on a cooling rack to cool for 20-30 minutes.
- Turn out brownies and re-invert on cooling rack to continue the cooling process.
First grab 8 oz of Bittersweet chocolate and chop it up in to chunks…
Then melt your chocolate with the 1/2 cup of butter in your microwave. Do this in small 30 second intervals, stirring in between, until the majority of chocolate is melted.
**PS. can you find me in the chocolate…I’m a regular Where’s Waldo 🙂
Then add 1 cup of sugar to the melted chocolate and mix well…
Then add your three eggs until nice and incorporated. Now set this bowl aside.
In another bowl, mix together your 1 1/4 cup flour, 1/4 cup cocoa powder, 1/2 tsp salt and 3/4 tsp baking powder…
Add your cup of chopped walnuts if you so desire some nuts in there…
And then add your cup of chocolate chips…
Mix well, making sure your walnuts and chocolate chips are nicely coated. This helps so that they don’t fall to the bottom of the brownie while it’s baking, cause nobody likes when all the good stuff ends up at the bottom of the brownie 🙂
Add your dry ingredients to your wet ingredients and mix until just incorporated…I’d say about 40 strokes or so if ya wanna get technical 😉
Next cut a circle the size of the base of your crockpot from some parchment paper. Spray your entire crockpot with cooking spray, lay down your circle of parchment paper and then spray the top of the parchment paper. This will make it easier to turn out your brownies when they are done.
Then pour your brownie batter into your crockpot and smooth the top so that your brownies will cook nice and even. Cook with the lid on low for 3 hours and then with the lid off for another 30 minutes.
It will look more cooked at the edges and gooey-er in the middle when it’s all done.
Then while it’s still warm, grab a knife and go around the edge with it and loosen your brownie from the crockpot. Pull your ceramic crock from the heating element and let cool on a cooling rack for about 20 minutes. Then flip your brownies out onto a cooling rack and let them cool some more.
Let them cool…
Admire them…
Cut into them…
And devour them!
Chocolatey and Gooey makes for the best kinda brownies!
Happy Friday!
XOXO,
Might give this one a try this weekend, thanks!
Would love to see the inflamed cake:) Too much fun! Thanks for this yummy recipe- gonna have to try it!! 🙂
oh wow, I would have never thought to bake brownies in the Crockpot
Mmmm! This looks delicious! I have all the ingredients now, too! 🙂 – Karen
WHOA!! These look too good to resist! I’ll have to try them, but I’d better invite guests so Grandpa and I (mainly ‘I’) don’t eat them all! 😉
I would think those slow cooker bags would work great for this. Have you ever tried them?
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That looks insanely good!
I had a very difficult time scrolling through this post, I kept having to talk myself down from licking the monitor. Oooh, brownies. Oooh, melted chocolate. Oooh, sugar. (ooh, can you tell I’ve cut my sugar this week to just-in-my-coffee to prepare myself for family pictures tomorrow? ha. post-baby-belly needs all the help it can get.)
We did my mom’s 40th birthday cake covered in candles. In the photos you notice two things right off the bat.
1) there is a visible heat wave coming off of the cake.
2) my mom’s face – not super impressed. bahahaha.
My boys informed me (on the way home from the gym, none the less) that we were going to make brownies today…might have to give these a try 😉 thanks for the recipe.
Om nom nom….I wuv chocolate madness in every form 🙂
That is soooooo happening at my house either this weekend or Monday if we get our rain!!
Maggie, me and my crockpot seriously need to get out more! These look sensational and how easy! x
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Mmm, those sound SO good, thanks for sharing!
How awesome! I love crockpot recipes, but have never seen one for brownies, so this is definitely going in my to-do file – pronto! Love the gooey-ness of the brownies too. SO SO happy you shared this one!
Looks good but who would want to wait 3 and half hours when you can bake a batch in your normal oven? It’s not like you could leave it like a proper meal with slow cooking as you need to be there after the 3 hours to remove the lid.
Julie…think summer and heat and humidity! It gets so yucky here in the summer that there are lots of people that don’t even want to turn their ovens on! It’s just another way to make brownies…options baby!!
YUM. I just posted about these on my blog- http://www.lesleyslovinglyliftedlife.wordpress.com
These look so good. Love your blog… amazing. I am a fellow mom of three .. three and under too… and just started a blog a few weeks ago. Thanks for sharing your ideas, thoughts, recipes… Love them. 🙂
Awesome, TY for the recipe and fun recipe tutoprial. WILL be doing this!!! Our kids (4) will love it! ~ Ali
Okay.. so just in case you actually checked my blog when I posted that this morning…. I just realized it never published. So… I just re-posted it.. and I am almost positive it went through this time. 🙂
Oh MY Gaaawwwd! You just can’t go wrong with chocolate and a crock pot.
Thank you so much for sharing!
I saw your brownies on homepodge and thought they were too good to be true. Something tells me I’ll be making them at least once a week!!
Love, love!!!!
I would love for you come link this up to The CSI Project this week starting wednesday at midnight. I know it is from February but maybe you can repost and share on the CSI project. It is the slow cooker challenge and this is perfect.
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Well I found this link a few months ago and have been waiting for a chance to make this! We are making it right now so I hope it comes out because my mouth is watering 🙂
I love to read someone’s opinion on how a recipe comes out so I decided to update (wish I could edit my response)…It was good but a BIT too chocolatey. I personally thought the chips over did it and the edge of mine came out a bit hard (like overcooked). I did like the middle being a soft and cake-like but it just didn’t become like a brownie to me. But it was still a treat esp. for chocolate lovers!
What size crock do you use? For me the cooking time was too long as parts of the edge are burnt.
I believe mine is 5.5 quart Catherine!