Wealthy chocolate brownies with cranberries and pecans are one in all my favourite easy-to-make desserts this time of 12 months – it’s an sudden and enjoyable vacation taste mixture.

Served plain or topped with ice cream and scorching fudge sauce, I’ve been making cranberry brownies not less than just a few instances each vacation season for years. And with out exception, everybody who has tasted them has raved over them.

Cranberry Brownies

The brownie base for this recipe has been my favourite for years. It’s a easy saucepan recipe that comes collectively in beneath 10 minutes, making it good for snacking any time of day.

The cranberries are a tart counterpart to the wealthy chocolate fudgy brownies. It’s a enjoyable shock taste they usually’re at all times a assured hit on a dessert desk. Should you haven’t already fallen in love with the pairing of fruit and chocolate, these brownies could persuade you to strive it quickly.

Who doesn’t love a wealthy, fudge brownie for a candy snack? The cranberries which have a house in my freezer all 12 months for the Cranberry Christmas Cake should do double responsibility for these brownies now too.

Recent Cranberry Recipes

There’s a lot extra to recent cranberries than the cranberry sauce on the desk for Thanksgiving dinner. From the crunch of the sugar crust on the underside to the juicy cranberries to the flaky cake layer on high; Nantucket Christmas Cranberry Pie is cranberry dessert heaven.

“The candy warmth which you can not cease consuming” is one of the simplest ways to explain this candy and spicy cranberry jalapeno dip. Double it for a crowd so that you don’t run out! Tart cranberries and candy apples are baked inside a brown sugar and oat crisp for an ideal not-to-sweet cranberry apple crisp.

Tangy cranberry pancakes sweetened with maple syrup make getting away from bed on the weekend a bit bit simpler. These buttermilk pancakes are a must-make for me the primary weekend in December.

Cranberry Christmas Cookies are full of an abundance of recent tart cranberries balanced by a buttery candy cookie. Candy, tart, and stuffed with cranberries, apples, raisins, and spices, cranberry chutney is bound to turn into essential on the vacation desk.

Barely chewy with a sweetly tart mixture, cranberry oatmeal bars are stuffed with cranberries and apples topped with brown sugar and oatmeal crumbs. Recent cranberries and a touch of lemon are mixed on this extremely moist brown sugar streusel Cranberry Espresso Cake.

And final however not least, tart cranberries and spicy peppers mingle on this candy and spicy Cranberry Pepper Jelly. Everybody goes loopy for this spicy jam on the very first chunk! It’s the right addition to a Christmas charcuterie board.

Pecan Brownies

Oh, how I like a fudgy wealthy pan of brownies when they’re sprinkled with nuts in each chunk. My go-to brownie add-in is a handful of pecans, however I don’t discriminate with the nuts we take pleasure in in brownies.

Almond Pleasure Brownies are gooey fudgy brownies full of loads of chocolate, almonds, and coconut. Chocolate and nut-filled brownies are terrific with pecans or with walnuts – they usually get bonus factors for additionally being gluten and dairy free.

Kitchen Tip: I take advantage of this saucepan and this baking pan to make this recipe.

You’ll want the next components to make this recipe

• butter
• semi-sweet chocolate
• mild brown sugar
• vanilla extract
• eggs
• all-purpose flour
• kosher salt
• recent or frozen cranberries
• pecans

COOK’S NOTE: These brownies will hold properly in an hermetic container at room temperature for a number of days. Alternatively, they are often wrapped hermetic and frozen for as much as 3 months. Thaw at room temperature earlier than consuming.

Frozen cranberries work nicely on this recipe. I toss the bag of recent cranberries straight into the freezer after I purchase them. The frozen cranberries could be added to the recipe with out thawing.

Fruit and Chocolate

Easy and creamy chocolate fondue which you can make in simply a few minutes? What’s to not love?? Served with a great deal of fruit, cream puffs, graham crackers, and pretzels, this Dessert Fondue Board is a deal with for the eyes and for everybody’s style buds.

Candy and barely tart recent blueberries are evenly coated in darkish chocolate to create an irresistible candy snack that doubles as a fast and straightforward dessert too. My sister will get the thanks for these chocolate coated blueberries each time I make a batch for the freezer.

Earlier than I took the primary chunk, I knew that I would love these Darkish Chocolate Raspberry Brownies, (the home smelled unbelievable whereas they had been baking!) what I didn’t anticipate was the extraordinary raspberry taste that was in each chunk. Chocolate and raspberries are a spectacular pair, aren’t they?

Should you take pleasure in chocolate coated strawberries, you actually do have to strive chocolate coated orange slices. They’re like no different dessert and my complete household loves them!

Your favourite path combine has been remodeled into the last word sweet bar on this Fruit and Nut Chocolate Bark with swirled layers of white and darkish chocolate, studded with dried fruits, and crunchy nuts. Salty, candy, crunchy, chewy, and chocolate all come collectively on this lovely and simply adaptable vacation deal with.

{initially printed 10/5/17 – recipe notes and photographs up to date 12/4/24}