Love chili and chocolate together? These Carolina Reaper Chocolate Brownies are the ultimate "sweet heat" treat. Fudgy, rich, and easy to make, they feature one of the world's hottest peppers for a kick that chocolate lovers will crave. Perfect for spicy food fans and daring dessert nights!
Chili and chocolate are a wonderful pair! And they pair beautifully in these Carolina Reaper Chocolate Brownies, which will fulfill your every chocolate craving!
Believe me...these fudgy brownies pack some heat, but they are also deliciously chocolatey and very easy to make.
If you love chili and chocolate, you gotta make these spicy rich chocolate brownies using one of the hottest chilies in the world!
You're going to love both making and eating these spicy and luscious brownies, so let me jump into what ingredients you will need for this best brownie recipe with Carolina Reaper!
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🥘 Ingredients
Great news! You only need a few simple ingredients to make these spicy and perfect brownies with rich chocolate flavor. So gather the following for this easy recipe:
- Extra bittersweet chocolate bars for baking- For best results, use a great quality bar. I recommend Ghirardelli (you can use milk chocolate if you prefer)
- Cocoa powder - I recommend Ghirardelli
- Vanilla extract
- Brown sugar
- Granulated sugar
- Eggs
- Salted butter
- All purpose flour
- Carolina reaper powder - I highly highly recommend Sonoran Spice Carolina Reaper Powder. It's a superior product!
You'll notice there aren't any chocolate chips in this recipe. I really love using the rich dark chocolate bar squares for baking instead of the chocolate chips as you'll get a richer chocolate flavor!
Ok, let's make these homemade Reaper Brownies, an easy brownie recipe better than any box mix!
🔪 Instructions
Preheat your oven to 350F and grease a 9"x9" baking pan.
Place the butter in your microwave safe bowl and melt the butter in your microwave. Add 1 bar of the chocolate and melt the chocolate in the melted butter. Add the remaining ½ bar of chocolate and melt that in the butter as well. If needed, microwave the butter and melted chocolate mixture at 15 second intervals until the chocolate has completely melted.
In a separate large bowl, whisk the eggs.
Now add the sugar and brown sugar, cocoa powder, and vanilla. Stir or whisk until the ingredients are well combined.
Time to add the butter and chocolate mixture to the large bowl. Stir or whisk until well combined.
Now add the flour and stir it in, followed by the Carolina Reaper powder.
Pour this beautiful brownie batter into your 9"x9" baking pan, and bake in your preheated oven for 30-35 minutes. The top should have a shiny crust and a toothpick should come out mostly clean when inserted into the middle.
Cool completely before cutting. Using a plastic knife (wiped clean between cuts) works great to cut your fudgy chocolate brownies!
Suggestions For Serving
Get ready to enjoy these luscious and delicious brownies!
This spicy chocolate treat is perfect with a glass of milk. The milk is a lovely drink, but of course it also plays a practical role in that it can help ease the pain if you need a little relief from spicy and chewy brownies.
A scoop of vanilla ice cream would also be a great accompaniment to these wonderful spicy moist brownies.
Carolina reaper brownies are a great and easy dessert, and a great gift for chili heads! However, don't be naughty and spring them on unsuspecting friends and family! 😆
Enjoy your homemade brownies! And please let me know if you made these and how they turn out for you by commenting below!
I hope you will consider these Carolina Reaper brownies as the BEST brownies you have ever enjoyed!
FAQ
Carolina Reaper peppers measure between 1.5 million - 2.2 million SHU (Scoville Heat Units) on the Scoville Scale. HOT!
These brownies can be stored at room temperature for a couple of days when well wrapped (ideally wrap with plastic wrap or aluminum foil, and then place in a plastic bag). They can also be refrigerated for a few days, and also frozen when wrapped as previously described, for around 2 months.
You'll get the most intense chocolate flavor with the extra bittersweet chocolate, but by all means if you prefer milk chocolate this would also be superb!
Some Other Spicy Recipes You May Enjoy!
Here are some other spicy recipes that you may enjoy:
1,000 Foods To Eat Project
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Easy Carolina Reaper Chocolate Brownie Recipe
Equipment
- 1 9" x 9" baking pan
- 1 medium microwave safe bowl for melting the butter and chocolate
- 1 large mixing bowl for combining all of the ingredients for the batter
- whisk
Ingredients
- 6 oz chocolate bar squares for baking I recommend extra bittersweet chocolate bar squares by Ghirardelli (this is 1.5 bars of 4oz/bar chocolate)
- ¾ cups butter I used salted butter (1.5 sticks of butter = 12 tbsp)
- ⅓ cup cocoa powder I recommend Ghirardelli
- ½ cup brown sugar packed
- ¾ cup sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 1 ts vanilla extract
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- ½ ts Carolina reaper pepper powder vary the amount to your liking (½ ts gives you a really nice heat!)
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350F and grease a 9"x9" baking pan.
- Place the butter in your microwave safe bowl and melt the butter in your microwave. Add 1 bar of the chocolate and melt the chocolate in the melted butter. Add the remaining ½ bar of chocolate and melt that in the butter as well. If needed, microwave the butter and chocolate mixture at 15 second intervals until the chocolate has completely melted.
- In a separate large bowl, whisk the eggs.
- Now add the sugar and brown sugar, cocoa powder, and vanilla. Stir or whisk until the ingredients are well combined.
- Time to add the butter and chocolate mixture to the large bowl. Stir or whisk until well combined.
- Now add the flour and stir it in, followed by the Carolina Reaper powder.
- Pour this beautiful batter into your 9"x9" baking pan, and bake in your preheated oven for 30-35 minutes. The top should be shiny and a toothpick should come out mostly clean when inserted into the middle.
- Cool completely before cutting. Using a plastic knife (wiped clean between cuts) works great to cut brownies!
Grace
Oh my these are my favorite brownies ever! They are spicy and sooo chocolatey I love them!