Peanut butter swirl Oreo brownies

Oreos and brownies are a match made in heaven in my humble opinion. Imagine my sheer excitement when I realised that you could get strawberry cheesecake and peanut butter flavoured Oreos!! Honestly if you could have seen my face and heard my excited squeal, it would have made your day I promise! While I'm a huge fan of my previous brownie recipe. It is super rich and chocolatey due to the dark chocolate. So this time I tried a split with milk chocolate and it turned out really well.

Ingredients:- 

85g unsalted butter, cut into pieces, plus more for greasing baking tin 

40g cornflour 

30g unsweetened cocoa powder 

1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon 

1/2 teaspoon fine salt 

340g chocolate (broken into squares) (150g dark and 190g of milk)

170g caster sugar 

1 teaspoon of vanilla extract 

3 medium eggs 

For topping... 

3 tablespoons smooth peanut butter 

A handful of broken Oreos 

Method:- 

Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Lightly butter a 20cm by 30cm rectangular baking tin and line with grease-proof paper, leaving a 1 inch overhang on all sides. 

Combine the cornflour, cocoa, cinnamon, and salt. On the hob, gently melt the chocolate and butter. 

When the chocolate and butter have melted, remove pan from the heat and stir in sugar and vanilla. 

Making sure that the mixture has cooled ever so slightly (so as not to cook the eggs) stir in eggs, one at a time, until combined. 

Add cornflour, cocoa, cinnamon and salt mixture and stir until the luscious brownie batter is smooth and begins to pull away from sides. 

Pour the batter into your pre-greased and lined brownie tin and smooth over the top with a spatula. In a small microwaveable bowl heat the peanut butter for say 10 seconds in the microwave to loosen it up and enable a better blob and swirl action. 

You might need to keep testing the consistency of the spread, you want it slightly runny but not like water. Then blob using a teaspoon onto the brownie batter, and use a knife to swirl through. Then dot on top the Oreo biscuits and bake until a toothpick inserted in center comes out with a few moist crumbs attached, about 30-35 minutes, rotating the tin halfway through.

Let cool completely in pan on a wire rack. Using paper overhang, lift brownie out of pan and cut into squares and enjoy warm with some vanilla ice cream - mmmmm!

Oreo Rocky Road

This is such a quick and easy sweet treat to whip up, especially with kids because it requires no baking. Simply patience, while it sets in the fridge (easier said than done)! In case you had not gathered by now, I am a huge fan of a traybake'esque creation. Brownies or Flapjacks and now Rocky Road; there's just something so simple (and yummy) about them.

Ingredients:-
100g unsalted butter
225g milk chocolate
2tbsp golden syrup
2tbsp cocoa powder
50g white chocolate chunks
50g mini marshmallows
1 pack of Oreo biscuits

Method:-

Line a brownie tin with grease-proof paper.

Using heavy bottomed pan on the hob melt the milk chocolate and butter together. Then add cocoa powder and the golden syrup.Mix together thoroughly. Then leave until slightly cool.

Break the Oreo biscuits into smaller pieces (reserving a few whole biscuits for decoration) and add to the chocolate mix.

Next, add the marshmallows and the white chocolate chunks and stir until everything is covered in chocolate.

Pour into your lined tin and pat it down with a spatula until even.

Press some whole Oreo biscuits onto the top.

Leave to set in the fridge for a minimum of 2 hours then cut into squares and scoff!

Oreo Fudge

I don't know what's could be more exciting than homemade fudge...answers on a postcard please! I think it's a bit like brownies / blondies for me in that as soon as you've got your basic recipe down, you can add any combination of ingredients to the mix and it completely changes it up.

There's pretty much no skill required for making fudge. I was apprehensive but you literally stir the mix until it becomes a fudgey consistency and it's done! The only thing that put me off slightly here was the amount of white chocolate that this recipe required. It's A LOT. But don't let that put you off because it's such a fun (and yummy) thing to make.

Ingredients:-

1 can of sweetened condensed milk

510g white chocolate 

1 pack of Oreos

Method:-

I recommend using a disposable traybake tin (like here) because I won't lie to you, fudge is an absolute pain to cut and this way you can absolutely murder the tray and feel no remorse.

Melt the white chocolate with the sweetened condensed milk in a heavy bottomed medium sized saucepan over medium to low heat, until it reaches that fudgey consistency I talked about.

Stir in the chopped Oreo cookies, saving a few pieces to press into the top.

Pour mixture into your handy dandy throw-away tin and quickly spread fudge evenly with a spatula. 

Press extra chopped Oreo cookies on top. You can either leave to set at room temperature or if you're super impatient like me, pop it in the fridge to set.

This is when the tin comes into it's own. Using scissors, cut the down into each corner of the tin to flap the sides down and then using a sharp knife, cut into squares. You can peel the fudge away from the tin also if it's being a little uncooperative.

I prefer to store this in an airtight tin in the fridge but you can keep it at room temperature if you'd prefer. I would like to tell you how long it keeps for, but lets face it, it wont be around for long!