York Peppermint Pattie Brownies

This is a recipe that was sent to me by my good friend Michelle. She got the recipe from her wonderful Mother-in-law, Barbara Oldani. I haven't tried these yet, but I have been told they're absolutely delicious. Thanks, Barbara!
(I have added Celsius temperatures, for the Aussies.)

Yields 36

1½ cups butter or margarine, melted
3 cups sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
5 eggs
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup Hershey’s cocoa
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
24 (1 ½ -inch) York Peppermint Patties (unwrapped)

(Australians could use Nestle Mint Patties, but you wouldn't need as many, because they're bigger. Maybe 10-12 would do.)

Grease a 9-by-13-inch baking pan. Preheat oven to 350 degrees (180 degrees Celsius), or 325 if using a glass baking pan (160-165 degrees Celsius). Beat together the butter, sugar and vanilla. Add eggs and beat until well-blended. Mix together the flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt. Stir it into the butter-sugar mixture and blend well.

Reserve 2 cups of the batter, spreading the remaining mixture in the prepared pan. Arrange the peppermint patties about ½ inch apart in a single layer over the batter. Spread reserved batter over the patties. Bake 50-55 minutes or until the mixture begins to pull away from the sides of the pan. Cool completely in pan and cut into 36 brownies.

Mars Bar/Milky Way Slice

The other day, I don't know what made me think of it, but I remembered a slice we used to make when I was in school.
In Australia, we call this "Mars Bar Slice", because we use Mars Bars... But our Mars Bars are what Americans call Milky Way!
I have adapted the recipe for American measurements, and this recipe will do a double batch, which will fit a regular rectangle baking dish.



Grease your baking dish/slice tray.

Australian Ingredients:
6 x 65g Mars Bars, chopped
180g Butter
6 cups Rice Bubbles

American Ingredients:
6.5 x 58g Milky Way bars (total of 195g needed), chopped
180g butter (approx. 1 stick of butter plus almost 7 tbsp. butter.)
6 cups of Rice Krispies

Chop up the Mars Bars/Milky Way bars and combine them in a saucepan with the butter over low heat, without boiling, until the mixture is melted and smooth. (This will take quite a while, and you need to watch it carefully and keep stirring it. DO NOT turn the temperature up, no matter how tempted you are to get it done quicker.)

Stir the mixture into the Rice Bubbles/Rice Krispies until they look evenly coated. Press the mixture into the greased dish/tray.


Icing/Topping Ingredients:
400g Milk Chocolate (I ONLY use Cadbury for this. But you can use whatever.)
60g Butter (American: approx. 4.5 tbsp butter, or just over half a stick of butter)

Melt the butter and broken up chocolate in a bowl over hot water, stirring constantly until melted and smooth.
Spread the chocolate evenly over the slice mixture and refrigerate until topping is set.

Cut slice into squares. Store in an air-tight container in the refrigerator, or freeze wrapped very well in plastic wrap and foil.


Enjoy!