You know I am a self-proclaimed “Ghirardelli Girl.” I love their chocolate! Over the holidays Ghirardelli opened an outlet store less than 5 miles from my house. Let me repeat that: Less than five miles from my house! That’s less than 26,400 feet! Not that I would look that up to sound impressive…or desperate for chocolate… :-)
It has taken every ounce of my willpower to NOT go there. Today, I lost that battle…
It’s the cutest little store! Since it’s an outlet, everything is on sale. So really, I am SAVING money by buying chocolate there. Right? Well, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it! After all, when your phone cover looks like this…
How can you NOT go visit this store?
As expected, I came home with a ridiculous amount of chocolate. (Can you really have “too much” chocolate? I didn’t think so either.) The nice woman behind the counter not only gave me a free sample, she also gave me a recipe idea!
Take your favorite brownie recipe, or a box of Ghirardelli Brownie Mix, which I just happen to have in my pantry! Go figure! These Ghirardelli Brownies are my new favorite!
Add 9 – 12 squares of your favorite Ghirardelli chocolates. Which I just happen to have purchased! Coincidence? I don’t think so.
Prepare the batter as usual. Put half the batter in the pan. Place those delicious squares on top of the batter!
Cover the squares with the rest of the batter and bake as usual.
I used chocolate hazelnut squares this time, but you can use anything! Imagine Caramel Square Brownies. Toffee Square Brownies. Mint Square Brownies. Raspberry Brownies. Sea Salt Chocolate Caramel Brownies. Ahhhhh! I am on chocolate overload! What a delicious and simple way to make your brownies extra special!
For the record, I am not sponsored by Ghirardelli, nor was I paid to write this post. However, if anyone from Ghirardelli is reading and wants to pay me in chocolate to “test” recipes, my name is Sara and my E-mail address is Sara AT myimperfectkitchen dot-com! :-)
Enjoy your brownies my friends! We did!
These look great!
I’ll See about trying them!
But will it work without gardelli chocolate?
I live in a small town and there is no malls or MicDonald’s or any of that stuff exept a DQ and A&W,
on with my question sorry for bombarding you with my hometown…
But will any chocolates work?
Hello! Yes, any chocolate bar will work! Experiment and find your favorite combination. Good luck!
My brother sent me a brownie mix and Sea Salt Chocolate Caramel squares from Florida for me. Will be trying tonight. :)
These do sound yummy! And I have to admit, I’m a brownie snob. I love brownies from The Farm in Bev. Hills. I spent 7 weeks (making brownies once a week was almost overkill) trying to find the best brownie recipe and discovered Ina Garten’s Outrageous Brownies were def. a winner. I also found that the quality of chocolate matters, too. Giradelli’s works quite well. : )
Oooohhhh man, those brownies are TROUBLE! Amazing, delicious trouble.
LOVE!!!! As best I can recall, I swore off brownie recipes about 5 recipes or so ago… how ridiculous is that?!?!? I don’t even know at this point how many I have, but it matters not! I. love. this. recipe! Thanks :)
I would be in SO much trouble if there was a Ghiridelli’s anywhere within a 60 mile radius, let alone 5. Love your iphone cover!