These homemade PB&J Brownies are an easy and delicious holiday dessert option. Chewy, fudgey chocolate brownies with a swirl of peanut butter and the fruit spread of your choice on top, these are made from scratch and would be great on a Thanksgiving of Christmas dessert table or just because you deserve a tasty dessert!
¼cupof Smucker's Fruit & Honey Triple Berry Fruit Spread
Instructions
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
Grease an 8x8 pan, line it with enough parchment paper that extra comes up over the sides (for easy removal) and then grease the parchment paper and set aside.
Melt your chocolate and butter in a large, microwave safe bowl. The lazy-girl's way of doing this is by microwaving it for 30 seconds, stirring, microwaving for 30 seconds more, stirring again and then continuing to microwave in 15 second increments and stirring between until it's fully melted.
Once it's fully melted and liquidy, whisk in your sugar.
Next, whisk in each egg followed by your vanilla extract and salt until well combined.Stir in 1 cup of flour with a spoon until it's fully combined (try not to over mix it!).
Pour your batter into your pan and use a spatula to spread it evenly.
warm your peanut butter and your fruit spread for around 20-30 seconds each to soften them a bit.
Add 3 rows of spoonfuls of the peanut butter and the fruit spread, alternating them (mine had peanut butter in each corner and in the middle and then the fruit spread in between each dollop of peanut butter- it kind of looked like a tic-tac-toe board).
Using a knife, swirl the peanut butter and fruit spread together. I try not to over-swirl for the prettiest marbling, but also go out of my way to make sure the peanut butter and fruit spread is evenly distributed.
Bake for 50-60 minutes, or until your tester comes out (you want to get it to the point where it's not gooey batter on the tester but the crumbs are just starting to stick to the tester).
Try to let it col completely (brownies tend to do a lot of crossover cooking) and then use the parchment to remove the brownies in once piece and cut them.