Mummy Brownies (Because Swanky I Am Not)

Happy Halloween my friends! It’s time to welcome the neighborhood kids to the door and I am armed with two giant bags of candy and some ridiculous treats for Ivy and her brother to boot. Now, could I be a grown-up and give you some amazing cocktail recipe to make for your swanky Halloween party? I could… but I’m not going to, because I am not swanky. I am the opposite of swanky.

I am that kid-friendly mama who makes brownies, drizzles melted white chocolate in squiggly lines, sticks on candy eyeballs and calls them mummies. I don’t know if Martha Stewart would approve — but I don’t invite Martha Stewart to my house, so we’re fine.

Yes, my kids are adult-sized humans. Yes, they drive and have jobs and can file taxes. And yet… nobody — and I repeat nobody — resists a fudgy brownie dressed like a mummy. We see those eyeballs and we melt into children again. It’s science.

🎃 Mummy Brownies

You Need:

• 1 pan of brownies — boxed, homemade, whatever your soul has energy for

• ~½ cup white chocolate chips (or white candy melts)

• Candy eyeballs (the sillier the better)

Make Them:

1. Bake your brownies. Let them cool fully (I know, rude, but if you ice hot brownies it’s chaos).

2. Cut into whatever size squares your conscience allows.

3. Melt white chocolate chips in the microwave in 15–20 second bursts, stirring between each.

4. Drizzle the melted white chocolate over the brownies in zig-zag “mummy wrap” lines.

5. Press 2 candy eyes on each while the chocolate is still soft.

6. Try not to cackle with delight at how easy and adorable this was.

Serve with hot chocolate, hand out candy, judge costumes, and live your best cozy, non-swanky, brownie-mummy life.

Happy Halloween — long live cozy baking season.