Easter Bark Brownies Recipe

cindy — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 10:00:17 +0000

Easter is less than one month away so I thought it was time to whip up a fun Easter dessert. These Easter Bark Brownies combine two delicious treats in one, brownies and Easter Bark! You can’t go wrong with this combination plus, it’s easy to make and you can get creative!

To make this recipe even easier you could use a box mix of brownies but I didn’t have one on hand so I whipped up brownies from scratch using ingredients I had on hand. This is also a great recipe to make with the kids. They will really enjoy decorating the Easter Bark.

Easter Bark Brownie

Combine delicious brownies with colorful Easter Bark and you are guaranteed to have a hit!

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword brownies, Easter

Prep Time 15

Cook Time 20

cooling time 30

Total Time 1 5

Servings 9

Author cindy

Ingredients

Brownies

1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 cup flour
1 cup sugar
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp baking powder
1/2 cup butter melted and cooled
2 eggs room temperature
1 tsp vanilla

Easter Bark

12 oz white chocolate melting chocolate
8 oz pink melting chocolate
sprinkles
small Easter Candy I used Cadbury Chocolate Eggs

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350° F. Generously Spray an 8×8″ baking pan with non-stick spray and set aside.
Using a large strainer over a mixing bowl, sift together the cocoa powder, sugar, salt, and baking powder so there are no lumps.
In a separate bowl mix together the melted butter, eggs, and vanilla.
Combine the wet ingredients with the dry ingredients until just combined.
Pour the batter into the prepared baking pan. Bake for 20-23 minutes, until done.
Remove brownies from the oven and cool for about 15 minutes before removing from pan and placing on cooling rack.

Easter Bark

Once the brownies are completely cooled, melt your chocolate. Carefully set up 2 double boilers, each with about an inch of water in the bottom pan. Place each type of melting chocolate in its own upper pan. Stir occasionally, until the chocolate is melted and no lumps remain.
Pour the white chocolate all over the top of the brownies. Follow with the pink chocolate but use that as a drizzle to decoratively add it to the white chocolate.
Quickly add sprinkles and candy on top of the chocolates before they harden.
Cut with a warm, sharp knife and enjoy!

These homemade brownies are so easy to make. I do recommend using a sieve like this one to sift all your dry ingredients through. It makes the batter smoother and mixes them more thoroughly.

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Sugar Cookie Cake Recipe

cindy — Fri, 13 Apr 2018 10:00:40 +0000

We were very late in planning our Easter dinner this year. I didn’t even decide to make a Sugar Cookie Cake until Good Friday! For the last 20+ years we have gone to my parent’s house and had family dinner after church. Well, that all changed last year, mom is in a small apartment now and I had forgotten we didn’t do Easter dinner last year. On Palm Sunday, while I was busy with 5 other things at the church’s Spring Picnic and Egg Hunt, my mother-in-law suggested doing Easter dinner at her house. I told her I couldn’t think about it right then and went to work at the prize tent. Monday I spent the day recuperating from our amazing Sunday. When I called my mom I asked her if we were doing anything for Easter dinner and she said “No, we didn’t do anything last year and my deacon and his wife are taking the widows out to eat.” It was Wednesday before I checked in with my mother-in-law and she said she would do ham and potatoes and I could do a veggie and a dessert. I pawned the veggie off on Jordan and I decided to make an easy dessert.

I had to make the dessert on Saturday because our church which usually has 2 services every Sunday was having 3 on Easter so there would be seats for everyone to celebrate the Resurrection of Christ. I was serving in Kids Church for the first two services and attending the sanctuary service for the third service. I knew we would have pizza for lunch and take a long, well deserved nap before heading to the in-laws for 5pm. I decided on a simple Spring Sugar Cookie Cake.

Sugar Cookie Cake

Look no further for a sweet spring treat. This easy Sugar Cookie Cake is perfect for any spring gathering or celebration.

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Prep Time 5

Cook Time 15

Cooling Time 30

Total Time 50

Servings 12

Author cindy

Ingredients

1 roll Pillsbury Sugar Cookie Dough
1/2 cup Spring M&Ms
1 TBS Spring Sprinkles
1 tsp Spring Sprinkles
1 jar Pillsbury Creamy Supreme White Frosting
2 drops green liquid food coloring

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350°
Lightly spray the bottom of a deep dish pizza pan with non-stick spray.
Set the package of dough out on the counter for 10-15 minutes to soften up while you gather the rest of your supplies
In a mixing bowl break up the sugar cookie dough roll into several pieces.
Add in the M&Ms and 1 TBS sprinkles and mix together with your hands. Making sure the candy and sprinkles are well distributed.
Place the dough in the center of the pizza pan and flatten it towards the outside, leaving about 3/4 of an inch of space between the dough and the sides of the pan.
Bake for about 15 minutes, until the edges are starting to brown and the center is mostly set.
Remove from oven and cool in pan for about 10 minutes. Then remove from pan and cool on rack for another 20 minutes or until completely cooled.
When cooled, place cookie cake on serving tray and decorate. I chose to cover the cookie cake in white frosting and then sprinkle the 1 tsp of sprinkles on the top.
Mix the remaining frosting with 2 drops of green food coloring.
Choose your favorite piping tip and decorate the edge of the cookie cake.

I actually made 2 versions of this Sugar Cookie Cake this weekend. The first one came to church with me Easter morning for the Kids Church volunteers to snack on between services and the second one went to my mother-in-law’s house for our Easter Dinner dessert. I hope you enjoy this recipe and all of the easy recipes I share here on The Mom Maven. I hope you share them on your social networks. I just ask that you not copy and share the entire recipe with photos. Please use the sharing buttons below and share the link to this post. Thanks!

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