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.
These were absolutely delicious! Perfectly moist and chocolately - a perfect bite! Mine took about 14 min for perfection! Thank you for sharing.
Cool the butter a little before adding eggs or else they'll scramble
Made them three times in two weeks! A silicon pan makes it so easy. Also did Nutella stuffed instead of choc chips, delish! Going to try peanut butter next.... yum!
Hi do you know if I can make these in a small casserole dish? I don’t have a muffin tray at the moment.
you can bake the batter in a 9x9 pan for 20ish minutes and it will be great
I am making them right now but they are bubbling and not baking. Do you know why? I need help, asap.
bubbling?! I've never seen that before. Did you make any substitutions?
These are amazing!! I’m in brownie heaven. These are on regular rotation in my house.
Hi! So i tried this recipe and it tasted amazing, my daughter ate 5 at one sitting when I took it out of the oven. The problem I had was that it didn’t crinkle? It just looked smooth like a cupcake, what do you think I did wrong?
Great recipe and so easy! Cut sugar down to 1 cup and still too sweet for me though, so will go to 3/4 next time.
Love these! Come together super quick and the perfect little bite of chocolate.
I made these for dessert tonight (made your cheese kale pasta for dinner!). They are so rich and good. We ate them with some vanilla ice cream and sprinkles and can’t wait to eat the leftover brownie bites this week.
So easy!! Fun to do with kids!
Makes 24 mini brownies!
OMG!!! These were awesome!!! Used salted butter and 1/2 the salt...turned out fine. Also cooked some in mini liners...they stick to the paper pretty good...LOL.. Also they do stick to the pans a little even with cooking spray.. So,I let them cool a bit in the pans..ran a butter knife around them then flipped them over onto a cooling rack...worked great! Gonna freeze them and send them to my son who is overseas in the USAF.. I am sure all guys will love them. THANKS for the great recipe!!!
These are delicious! I had trouble with them sticking to my non-stick muffin tin. I used grapeseed oil spray so that must not be the best spray to use. Do you have a brand recommendation?
I use PAM
Turned out great! Baking for my mom and sister during this quarantine and they loved it!
These look amazing! I love a fantastic brownie!! Should I omit the salt if I'm using salted butter? Living in Germany and know it might sound silly but I haven't been able to find unsalted butter at our local grocery store. Didn't know if I should omit the salt completely or how much to use if I should reduce it? Thanks so much!
yes omit the salt!! you're gonna love it