Peppermint Candy Brownie Trifle
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#ad Make your favorite holiday moments sweeter with this delectable Peppermint Candy Brownie Trifle this season using BRACH’S Peppermint Candy Canes and Peppermint Crushed Candy Canes!
More peppermint recipes? You’ll swoon over these Christmas Peppermint Oreo Truffles, Peppermint Sugar Cookie Bars and this Heavenly Chocolate Caramel Cheesecake Brownie Trifle!
What is Peppermint Candy Brownie Trifle?
This festive trifle is perfect for all your holiday celebrations layered with candy cane white chocolate covered brownies, a luscious cookies and cream filling, dollops of hazelnut spread, marshmallows and peppermint whipped cream, with candy canes love throughout!
How does that grab ya? Yummy for sure, right?
About BRACH’S Candy Canes
Candy Canes have been an important piece of BRACH’S almost 120-year long legacy of making moments sweeter. BRACH’S, America’s #1 Candy Cane brand, offers a variety of iconic product forms, shapes, textures and flavors perfect for any occasion.
In the spirit of combining what has been beloved for decades with something brand-new, BRACH’S is releasing their latest, limited-edition holiday candy innovations:
- BRACH’S Holiday Heat Candy Canes – sweet and spicy candy canes, deliciously fruity with a hint of chili heat, in assorted boxes of Watermelon Chili, Pineapple Chili and Mango Chili flavors.
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Of course, I especially love the traditional Peppermint Candy Canes for sure! But the colorful ones are so fun on Christmas trees and when you want to add some zing to your holiday desserts, like our Peppermint Candy Brownie Trifle!
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Candy canes are the perfect treat for snacking, baking, decorating or gifting. Our friends at BRACH’s Candy sent us a holiday package with BRACH’S Peppermint Candy Canes and their new Holiday Heat Candy Canes and Holiday Lights jelly candies to help kick off their first-ever nationwide holiday tradition exchange BRACH’S Sweetness Swap. And guess what? You can participate!
BRACH’S, is inviting fans nationwide to share their holiday traditions in exchange for a new activity and a voucher for a free box of BRACH’S Peppermint Candy Canes (for the first 5,000 claimants). Submissions will be open from Dec. 5 – Dec. 16, and in exchange fans will receive e-cards from BRACH’S suggesting a new fan-submitted way to sweeten up their holidays.
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Ingredients You Need for Peppermint Candy Brownie Trifle Recipe
- 1 9×13 pan of brownies, baked
- white chocolate chips, for melting
- BRACH’S crushed candy canes
- whipped cream – can also substitute with whipping 4 cups of heavy whipping cream, plus 3/4 cup powdered sugar for stabilizing whipping cream for best results!
- cream cheese, softened so mixture is creamy and lump-free
- chocolate sandwich cookies, crushed or broken into bits
- mini marshmallows – optional, but I love adding them in!
- hazelnut chocolate spread – If you can’t find hazelnut chocolate spread, you can use hot fudge topping just as well!
- peppermint extract – use sparingly by adding a little at a time and tasting and add more as you go to get the peppermint flavor you want. I wouldn’t go heavy on this, you have peppermint candies throughout as well!
- BRACH’S Peppermint Candy Canes
, Holiday Heat Candy Canes, or Cherry Candy Canes.
How to Make Peppermint Brownie Trifle
Peppermint Brownies
- Bake brownies and cool completely.
- Melt white chocolate in microwave and place in ziplock bag. Snip corner of bag and pipe melted chocolate onto brownies. Sprinkle BRACH’S crushed candy canes on top and place brownies in fridge so chocolate sets.
Cookies & Cream Filling
- Crush chocolate sandwich cookies. Using mixer, mix softened cream cheese, ¼ cup hazelnut spread and half (8 ounces or 3 cups) of the whipped cream together. Add crushed chocolate sandwich cookies to mixture. Add ½ of the marshmallows to the filling and mix together.
Peppermint Whipped Cream Filling
- Mix together the remaining whipped cream with peppermint extract.
Assembling and Layering the Trifle
- Cut candy cane brownies into cubes and layer ⅓ of brownies on bottom of trifle bowl, placing the chocolate covered brownies facing outward for presentation in the bowl and filling in the middle.
- Add ½ cookies and cream filling on top of brownie layer.
- Dollop some hazelnut filling on top of cookies and cream layer.
- Next, layer ½ of the peppermint whipped cream.
- Add next ⅓ of brownies layer, followed by the rest of the cookies and cream filling, more dollops of hazelnut chocolate spread and the rest of the mini marshmallows.
- Pipe a border of the remainder of peppermint whipped cream border on top and place the remainder of brownies in the center.
- Finish the trifle off with adding some crushed candy canes on the whipped cream and place your favorite BRACH’S Peppermint Candy Canes, Holiday Heat Candy Canes, or Cherry Candy Canes on top!
- Place trifle in fridge until ready to serve. I think 2 to 4 hours is a good time to let the trifle meld together with all the flavors and creams before serving for best results.
Prepare Easy Peppermint Brownie Trifle Ahead of Time
- The best and the easiest part about trifles is that you can have all layers prepared in advance and it will take you minutes to assemble it on the day of the gathering.
- You may make the brownies a day or two ahead of time and keep it well wrapped in the freezer or the fridge. If freezing, before cutting it into cubes, let it defrost in the fridge.
Storing Peppermint Candy Cane Trifle
Cover the trifle bowl with a layer of plastic wrap and put it in the refrigerator. The trifle will keep well for 2 to 3 days. After that the trifle can become mushy, but if you’re taking this to a family gathering or your Christmas parties, it’s going to go fast! You may not have any leftovers! hehe
Remember to SUBMIT your favorite holiday tradition using candy in exchange for a box of free Brach’s Peppermint Candy Canes* and a new (well, new to you!) festive activity to try this season with family and friends!
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Peppermint Candy Brownie Trifle
Ingredients
- 1 9x13 pan of brownies baked
- 1 cup white chocolate chips
- BRACH’S crushed candy canes
- 3 8 ounces Cool Whip or 9 cups of whipped cream
- 8 ounces cream cheese softened
- 10 chocolate sandwich cookies crushed or broken into bits
- 1 ½ cups mini marshmallows
- 1 cup hazelnut chocolate spread add more if desired
- ¼ teaspoon peppermint extract add more if desired
- BRACH’S Peppermint Candy Canes Holiday Heat Candy Canes, or Cherry Candy Canes
Instructions
How to Make Peppermint Brownie Trifle
Peppermint Brownies
- Bake brownies and cool completely.
Cookies & Cream Filling
- Melt white chocolate in microwave and place in ziplock bag. Snip corner of bag and pipe melted chocolate onto brownies. Sprinkle BRACH’S crushed candy canes on top and place brownies in fridge so chocolate sets.
Cookies & Cream Filling
- Crush chocolate sandwich cookies. Using mixer, mix softened cream cheese, ¼ cup hazelnut spread and half (8 ounces or 3 cups) of the whipped cream together. Add crushed chocolate sandwich cookies to mixture. Add ½ of the marshmallows to the filling and mix together.
Peppermint Whipped Cream Filling
- Mix together the remaining whipped cream with peppermint extract.
Assembling and Layering the Trifle
- Cut candy cane brownies into cubes and layer ⅓ of brownies on bottom of trifle bowl, placing the chocolate covered brownies facing outward for presentation in the bowl and filling in the middle.
- Add ½ cookies and cream filling on top of brownie layer.
- Dollop some hazelnut filling on top of cookies and cream layer.
- Next, layer ½ of the peppermint whipped cream.
- Add next ⅓ of brownies layer, followed by the rest of the cookies and cream filling, more dollops of hazelnut spread and the rest of the mini marshmallows.
- Pipe a border of the remainder of peppermint whipped cream border on top and place the remainder of brownies in the center.
- Finish the trifle off with adding some crushed candy canes on the whipped cream and place your favorite BRACH’S Peppermint Candy Canes, Holiday Heat Candy Canes, or Cherry Candy Canes on top!
- Place trifle in fridge until ready to serve.
Notes
- Whipped Cream - can also substitute with whipping 4 cups of heavy whipping cream, plus 3/4 cup powdered sugar for stabilizing whipping cream.
