Candy Corn Brownies

Total Time: 1 hr 45 mins Preparation Time: 1 hr Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup butter, melted and cooled (3/4 cup)
• 1 3/4 cups sugar
• 4 large eggs
• 1 1/2 cups plus 1/4 cup flour
• 2 ounces unsweetened baking chocolate, melted in medium bowl in microwave
• 1 teaspoon orange extract
• yellow and red food coloring
• 1/4 cup orange candy melts

Recipe

• 1 heat oven to 325 degrees f. line a 9-inch square baking pan with foil, letting foil extend above pan on 2 sides coat foil with nonstick spray or use nonstick foil.
• 2 whisk butter and sugar in a medium bowl until blended. whisk in eggs, one t a time. stir in 1-1/2 cups flour and the baking powder until just combined.
• 3 remove 1 cup batter, add to chocolate and stir until blended. spread evenly in lined pan. refrigerate 15 minutes or until slightly firm.
• 4 meanwhile, stir orange extract and 1/4 cup flour into remaining batter, tint yellow. divide batter in half. tint half orange using a little red food color.
• 5 spoon yellow batter onto chocolate layer; gently spread even. refrigerate 30 minutes, until slightly firm to the touch.
• 6 spoon on orange batter; spread even. bake 40-45 minutes until a wooden pcik inserted in center comes out clean. cool pan on wire rack 10 minutes; then invert on rack to cool completely; remove foil. cut in 25 squares.
• 7 to make spiderwebs: melt candy melts as package directs. scrape into a sturdy 1-quart ziptop bag. cut tip off one corner and pipe a quarter of a spiderweb on each brownie. the web will have 4 spokes, two of which follow 2 sides of the brownie and meet in the corner. the other two are spaced inbetween. there will be room for a couple of rows of web lines connecting the 4 spokes.