TWIX® Bites Brownies with Chocolate Caramel Buttercream Frosting – bite-sized brownies, each with a TWIX® Bite in the middle and covered with a Chocolate Caramel Buttercream Frosting. These are a great dessert for a special occasion or to surprise the kids as they celebrate their last day of school!
I remember when the TWIX® candy bar first came out.
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Circa 1979.
Yikes, I’m dating myself! (Don’t be impressed that I remembered the year. I had to look it up.)
Anywho, I really, really fell in love with it when I was little – the crunchy cookie on the bottom, the caramel layer and all of it covered in chocolate.
*sigh*
So you can only imagine how incredibly excited I was when I heard that the TWIX® candy bar had BABIES!!!
Yes, that’s right, now there are little TWIX®, TWIX® Bites to be exact! All of that wonderful goodness in a bite-sized snack. I was so happy when I was browsing the candy aisle at our local Walmart and happened to spot them.
Bingo!
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I adapted the brownie recipe from my Fannie Farmer Cookbook Thirteenth Edition, p. 628; author, Marion Cunningham; publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. a division of Random House, Inc.; ISBN 0-394-56788-9.
And the Chocolate Caramel Buttercream Frosting I adapted from Southern Living.
TWIX® Bites Brownies with Chocolate Caramel Buttercream Frosting
Ingredients
Brownies
- 2 ounces unsweetened chocolate
- ¼ cup unsalted butter
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg beaten
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup flour
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 package TWIX® Bites
Chocolate Caramel Buttercream Frosting
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter room temperature
- 2 ounces cream cheese room temperature
- 1 ½ teaspoons chocolate extract
- ⅛ teaspoon kosher salt
- 2 cups confectioners' sugar
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 8 caramels unwrapped
- 1 ¾ teaspoons milk
Instructions
Brownies
- Preheat oven to 300 degrees F.
- In a medium saucepan, melt the chocolate and butter together over low heat.
- Remove from heat and with a rubber spatula, mix in sugar, egg, salt, flour and vanilla.
- Fold batter over several times, making sure it is completely mixed, about 1-2 minutes
- Let rest for 5 minutes.
- Prepare a 12-cup mini muffin tin by spraying it with baking spray.
- Using a teaspoon, put 2 teaspoons of batter into your hand and roll into a ball.
- Place the ball into one of the muffin cups and press down slightly to fill.
- Repeat until all of the cups are filled.
- Bake for 20 minutes.
- Upon removal from the oven, gently place one TWIX® Bite into the center of each brownie, pushing down so that the brownie comes up around it.
- Allow to cool in the muffin pan for 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.
- Repeat process, spraying muffin tray each time before filling with batter.
Frosting
- In a stand mixer with the paddle attachment, cream together the butter, cream cheese until smooth.
- Mix in the chocolate extract and salt. Blend well.
- Gradually add 1 cup of the confectioners' sugar, followed by one tablespoon milk.
- After thoroughly mixing, gradually add the second cup of confectioners' sugar followed by the remaining tablespoon of milk.
- Beat until smooth.
- If the consistency of the frosting is too dry, add a touch more milk. If too wet, add a touch more confectioners' sugar.
- In a microwave-safe bowl, place the 8 caramel and 1 3/4 teaspoons milk. Microwave for 30 seconds. Remove and stir until caramels are completely melted and mixture is smooth.
- Drizzle the melted caramel into the frosting, folding with a rubber spatula to blend.
- Do not over mix, you want there to be caramel ribbons throughout.
- Frost as desired.
I rate everything I make on a scale of 1-4 with 4 being the best and these TWIX® Bites Brownies with Chocolate Caramel Buttercream Frosting earned…”wait for it”…
a WHOPPING 4 rolling pins!!!! WOO HOO!
We really, really, REALLY liked them. Ok, we LOVED them. The brownies were good – chocolatey and chewy.
The frosting was delicious, especially with the addition of the melted caramel. And those TWIX® Bites added some extra-special goodness to the whole incredibly yummy morsel. And besides, who doesn’t like a brownie with a surprise inside and frosting on the top? Seriously.
Yeah, I will be making them again.
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Comments & Reviews
I’m so totally jealous that you got to play with the Twix Bites! They’re one of my favorite candy bars ever! I bet they’d have fun dipping into a bowl of ice cream with the 3 Musketeers Bites and the Milky Way Bites. It would be a kiddie pool of chocolately love! 🙂
I LOVE working with candy bars, Becca! Twix are awesome!
*sigh* Chocolatey love…
These cookies looks yummie can’t wait to make them
Thanks, Antoinette!
They were quite tasty!
Cannot wait to make these. Just bought a new muffin tin. Unfortunately, I cannot find Twix Bites anywhere here in England so having to break up regular Twix bars in to little ones. But hey ho, still can’t wait 🙂
Thank you, Anthony! I’m sure the broken whole Twix bars will work just as nicely.
Enjoy!
I can definitely see why this rates as 4 rolling pins! As if the original frosted brownies didn’t sound delicious enough, those TWIX Bits definitely take it to the next level! #client
Thanks, Kelly! They were quite good and I’ll have to make them again soon (that is, if we don’t eat the whole bag of TWIX Bites before they make it into the brownies)! 😉
These look TO DIE FOR!!!!
I am making them for the second time today- my niece loved them so much the first time she requested them for her birthday (which is today) making a batch as part of her birthday gift- this a wonderful recipe!
Hello! I am very excited to make theses for my son’s summer bash party tomorrow. His last day in pre-school before kindergarten starts on Tuesday. (I’m a mess!) I do not have chocolate extract. That is the only ingredient I am missing! Is there something I can substitute? Or can I use real chocolate? If so how much? Thank you in advance! These look so delicious. I can’t wait to try them. I’ll let you know how they turn out!
Amber, sorry about the delayed response. You can just make a plain buttercream and add the caramel to it. That would be tasty as well and no one will ever know. I’ve have yet to melt chocolate to use in my frosting, but I’d suggest using cocoa powder. This recipe from Amanda at I am Baker would be yummy to use on them and I’d omit the caramel.
http://iambaker.net/the-perfect-chocolate-cake/
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Denise, I think it would taste just as good with boxed brownie mix!
Hi! I am thinking of making these for my sister’s birthday and was wondering how the icing holds up? Do these need to stay refrigerated? I made a marshmallow fluff icing a couple of weeks ago for some smores brownies and it melted everywhere! Thanks in advance 🙂
Holly, so sorry about my very delayed reply. I recommend refrigerating the bites after they’re frosted if you aren’t going to be serving them right away since there is butter in the frosting.
How many does this recipe make?
Tarin, the recipe will make approximately 26
I am making these to take to our family Christmas gathering! Thanks for sharing….yummo!!
I just finished making these for my co-workers. I can’t wait for them to try them! YUM!
That’s wonderful and such a great idea, Rachel! Thank you so much. I’m sure they’ll enjoy them and you’ll be asked to make them again and again. 😉
Hi….I’m Twix lover not dying to try this recipe but the problem is we don’t have caramel wrapped in ksa(saudia) what is the substitute of it plz reply ASAP…thanx
Tara, there are quite a few recipes for making homemade caramels if you do a Google search that you can make for the recipe. I wouldn’t make a caramel sauce because that would be too runny.