Baking with Ro: Instagram Brownies

 

Hello Everybody!

I'm back with another attempt at a Nerdy Nummies recipe and today it's in honor of my favorite social media platform, Instagram! The lovely Rosanna Pansino gives you the recipe and instructions over on her YouTube channel. I'm a bit obsessed with her Nerdy Nummies series and cookbook, her creations are genius. I promise you that these brownies are super easy to both bake and decorate, as well as tasting amazing.

I doubled this recipe to make sure there were enough to decorate and for my family to enjoy some too. Like most of Ro's recipes, you simply whisk your dry ingredients, add in the wet, and mix until combined. So easy! I love a good one-bowl recipe.

Ro recommends baking these for 20-25 minutes, but mine were ready by about 15 so remember to check on these a bit earlier just in case. How good does that batter look? The best thing about baking is licking the bowl!

 

I didn't have a square cookie cutter, so I just used a sharp knife to cut a square using an Oreo as my guide for how big it needed to be. I had to use a lot of self-restraint to not eat the rest of the brownies while I decorated...

To decorate the brownies you will need: 

Oreos 

Peanut butter or chocolate icing
A piping bag

Rainbow candy  

I found it easier to prep the Oreos first before icing the brownies. Twist the Oreos to separate the two halves and scrap off the icing in the middle. These are going to be your lenses so prep as many as you will need. 

For the corner square, I took a sharp knife and cut a couple of the halved Oreos into small squares.

For the base color Ro uses peanut butter, but Kiwi brands tend to make it very thick so I opted for making a simple chocolate American butter cream icing instead. It's a great creamy mix that is perfect for this project and is a good alternative if you aren't a peanut butter fan. Whichever you choose to go with pop it into an icing bag and cut off a corner.

Place one of the square Oreos at the top corner of the brownie to use as your icing guideline. Pipe a square of your icing (or PB) leaving a strip at the top.

Using a mini spatula (a butter knife or spoon will do fine if you don't have one) flatten down the icing until it is smooth all over. Don't worry if it's not perfect, mine certainly wasn't!

Carefully place an Oreo half in the center of the icing and put the rainbow candy in the top left-hand corner. And you're done!

My brownies came out a bit darker than Ro's, but I don't think the color matters too much. These were really fun and so simple to make. If you want to show off your baking skills to your friends these would definitely do the trick! They're seriously delicious too.

What do you think? I'm kind of in love with them.
Let me know if you've done any baking recently!
Steph x.