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I am totally aware that the official start of summer is merely days away. I recognize that “swimsuit season” is very much here and now. I get it, healthy recipes are pretty popular right now, they’re monopolizing prime real estate on Pinterest and maybe you’re restricting your diet to things made with quinoa or kale, or labeled “skinny” this or that. This is not one of those recipes. If you’re spending your mornings and evenings sweating over a treadmill with your bikini dangling in front of you like a carrot, you should probably click away right now, because what I’m about to share is 100% not bathing suit friendly. Today I have “Dirty Brownies” for you, the most diabolical of all brownies, loaded with Oreo cookie pieces, positively stuffed with peanut butter cups, and determined to make you suddenly shockingly accepting of the thought of wearing a mumu to the beach.
These brownies are irresistible, so much so that they almost didn’t even make it onto the blog. Not because of any defect or shortcoming on their part (I mean, just look at them), but because I am a glutton of the highest degree with an embarrassing and indomitable lack of self-control. I “sampled” a corner and suddenly half the pan was gone, with not a single photograph taken. I held myself back from polishing off the pan just long enough to snap a few shots, and then I called my sister and begged her to come pick them up (she obliged) because I couldn’t trust myself around them any longer. These brownies are dirty, they’re seductive, sinister, and completely untrustworthy. They’re worth every last calorie of chewy, exceedingly chocolaty brownie, stuffed with mines of milk chocolate peanut butter cups, blasted full of cookie bits, shiny, crackly tops littered with cookie pieces. They’re a dream come true, a flavor explosion, a confectionery firework. And they are your swimsuit’s #1 enemy right now. But do you care? Pin It & Follow me on Pinterest!
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Recipe originally published 12/30/2015, photos & text updated 6/15/17
