In last year’s magazine, I pulled together a few leftover Halloween candy recipes using some of my favorites.
This content originally appeared in the 2022 issue of Spooky Little Halloween—The Magazine.
I really enjoyed making favorite Halloween candies into something new, so this year I’ll be sharing the recipes over the course of the season.
Up first: Double Franken-cups.
The two-toned Franken-cups from Reese’s have become a Halloween candy staple in my house. With the green cream on the bottom and chocolate on top, they even kind of look like Frankenstein’s head. I decided to resurrect a trendy recipe from back in 2011—slutty brownies—to make a Franken-cup within a Franken-cup.
How to make Double Franken-cups
Start by mixing up your favorite brownie recipe. Mine is Alton Brown’s cocoa brownies.
Next, mix up your favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe. Mine is the classic Nestle Toll House recipe.
Grease a cupcake pan with shortening. Fill each cup with one scoop of brownie mix, and bake for 15 minutes. While the brownies are starting to bake, unwrap enough Franken-cup candies to add one to each cup you filled with brownie batter.
Remove the partially baked brownies from the oven and press an unwrapped Franken-cup candy into the brownie batter. Top with one scoop of chocolate chip cookie dough.
Return to the oven and bake for 15-20 minutes.
Allow to cool in the pan, then pop out of the cups and enjoy!
Recipe notes:
You could use cupcake wrappers for this, but I found them to be messy and difficult. Overall, using a well-greased cupcake cup was easier for getting perfect Franken-cups.
Alternatively, you could bake this the same way in a 9 x 13-inch pan. You lose the double-cup effect, but it will be a little faster to put the dessert together.
Final recommendation: if you don’t enjoy peanut butter cups, try this recipe with another favorite chocolate candy, like Twix, Milky Ways, or Butterfinger bars.
What other candies would you like to see recipes for?
Later this season, I’ll be back with recipes using candy corn (in a cocktail, no less!) and my personal favorite, Witch’s Brew Kit-Kat bars.
If you’re looking for more ideas for making Halloween candy into creative recipes, check out this blog post.
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