These crackly crinkle top brownies are super moist, uber chocolatey and the perfect size to pop in your mouth for a quick treat!
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Why I Love This Recipe
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.
Ingredients & Substitutions
- Unsalted Butter
- White Sugar
- Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
- Kosher Salt
- Vanilla Extract
- Eggs
- All Purpose Flour
- Chocolate Chips
*For a full list of ingredients and instructions please see recipe card below.
How to Make Crinkle Top Brownie Bites
Step 1: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and spray a mini cupcake tin with non-stick baking spray.
Step 2: Melt the butter in a medium pot.
Step 3: Once melted, add the sugar, cocoa power and salt and mix until smooth. Remove from heat.
Step 4: Add the vanilla and eggs and combine.
Step 5: Add the flour and Chocolate chips until no more flour is visible.
Step 6: Using a spoon, scoop the brownie mixture into the mini cupcake tins and bake for 12-15 minutes.
Step 7: 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.
How to Store Crinkle Top Brownie Bites
You can store these for a few days outside or in the fridge if you want to extend the shelf life.
How to Freeze Crinkle Top Brownie Bites
You sure can freeze these! 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!
Tips & Tricks
You can stuff a variety of flavors into these and that makes this recipe so versatile!! 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.
FAQs
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.
Need a mini muffin pan?
This one is my favorite and it's super non-stick which makes it very easy to remove these!
If you're a fan of brownies just as much as I am here are a few other brownie recipes that you'll love:
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Crinkle Top Brownie Bites
Ingredients
- 10 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1 ¼ cups white sugar
- ¾ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- ½ teaspoon kosher salt
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs
- ½ cup all purpose flour
- ½ 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.
Notes
- 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.
Perfect for a quarantine afternoon. Delicious! Thanks!
Baking them up as we speak. My husband loooves one bite brownies from Costco. Fingers crossed
Delicious and so chocolatey! Perfect bite-sized treat.
Do you fill the cups to the top?
almost to the top!!
The pan you suggested makes 24 servings the recipe you post make a serving for 12 so I guess I need to double the recipe?
its for 2 per person
I saw 12 servings too and thought I needed to double the recipe to get 24 to fill my mini muffin pan....and now there are a lot of brownie bites and I’m 100% okay with that.
What do you think about adding Andes chips to kind of Christmas these up a bit for a cookie exchange?
You have my full support!
These are so yum! Came together in no time at all. Made 23 mini brownie bites. I'm sure these would freeze great, but they won't survive that long
These look fantastic!! Would mini silicone muffin pans work? Thanks!!
I'm sure they would!
I love all of your brownies. Will this keep me from eating the entire pan??
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?
Wanting to try these but don't know how many it makes.
roughly 2 dozen
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.
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 the bests brownies I ever eat. They are moist, sweet, perfectly cooked. I totally recommend these 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 8x8 or 9x9 pan
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.