Jenny's Journal: Sloppy Brownies

Back in the great sunshine state, we had a certain dessert known for its promiscuous name…. and even more promiscuous taste! I felt obliged to introduce the sloppy brownie to Farragut High and see what they thought. Traditionally, a Sloppy Brownie contains Oreos, brownie batter, and chocolate chip cookie dough baked off to a perfect crisp and preferably with a tall glass of cold milk.

Because that just didn’t seem worthy enough to satisfy the FHS newspaper staff, I had to give it a little more edge. The new and improved sloppy brownies consist of: Oreo, brownie, cookie dough, a sprinkling of marshmallows, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, and caramels, and finished with a little more cookie dough.

Not only are these bad boys fun to eat, but they’re also fun to make and can be made the easy way or the hard way. If you like to cheat, the easy way just involves store-bought brownie mix and cookie dough versus homemade. If you’re inclined to make the brownies and cookies from scratch, I’ll give you those recipes, just in case.

Without further adieu, I give you Sloppy Brownies:

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Sloppy Brownies

Ingredients:

1 recipe Brownie batter

1 recipe chocolate chip cookie dough

1 box of regular Oreos

2 cups mini marshmallows

8 regular-size Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups

(About) 15 soft caramel candies, unwrapped

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 F.
Prepare the brownie batter as recipe (or box, if using store-bought) instructs. Do the same with the cookie dough and keep both separate batters nearby.
Grease the bottom of a 13x9 rectangular cake pan and line the bottom with whole Oreo cookies There should be about 3-4 cookies left so feel free to crumble them over the gaps in the pan, or just eat them (to get them out of the way, of course).
Pour the brownie batter over the Oreos and spread it evenly, making sure to cover most of the bottom of the pan.
Take pieces of cookie dough (about the size of a quarter, more or less) and drop it over the brownie batter, using about half of the dough. Pull the caramel candies so they’re stretched out into about four parts per candy. Sprinkle the marshmallows, caramel pieces, and crumbles of Reese’s cups over the dough and cover with remaining dough, trying to cover most of the brownie batter. Some of the toppings will show, it doesn’t matter, this recipe really cant be messed up.
Put the pan in the oven and bake for 30-35 minutes. After 30 minutes, poke it with a toothpick. If the toothpick comes out clean, it is ready, but if there is brownie batter on the toothpick, put it back in for 5 minutes and check again.