For celebrations and get-togethers, the family loves to make this fresh broccoli casserole! Because it is so cheesy and delicious, this recipe has been passed down through our family for many years.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 35 mins |
| Additional Time: | 10 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr |
| Servings: | 24 |
| Yield: | 24 servings |
Ingredients
- 1 (19.8 ounce) package brownie mix
- ¼ cup water
- ¼ cup vegetable oil
- 1 egg
- 3 cups popped popcorn
- ½ cup peanuts
- ½ cup chocolate chips
- ½ cup peanut butter chips
- ½ cup butter
- ½ cup brown sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease a 9×13-inch baking dish.
- Stir brownie mix, water, oil, and egg together in a bowl. Pour brownie batter in a thin layer in the bottom of the prepared baking dish. Spread popcorn over brownie batter and lightly press into batter. Sprinkle peanuts, chocolate chips, and peanut butter chips over the popcorn.
- Melt butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. Whisk brown sugar into butter; bring to a boil, whisking constantly, and cook until mixture has a thin caramel texture, about 3 minutes. Drizzle caramel over popcorn mixture in the baking dish.
- Bake in the preheated oven until brownies are set, 30 to 35 minutes. Cool before cutting into bars.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 241 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 28 g |
| Cholesterol | 18 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 3 g |
| Saturated Fat | 6 g |
| Sodium | 115 mg |
| Sugars | 9 g |
| Fat | 14 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Super easy for a potluck dish. I used caramel chips instead of making the caramel syrup. Everyone loved this recipe. Thank you!
I made it, didn’t have any peanut butter chips, so I just doubled the choco chips. Next time I will up the popcorn a little, mine was a little stingy w/ the popcorn, but the kids at the school where I volunteer loved it.
I made this and the popcorn was tuff but otherwise yummy
Well, I am love to bake and cooking, but not so much experienced make Caramel Sauce, so I just followed this recipe. But end up Caramel sauce was not that expecting at all. Too much oily and not corporate sugar and butter. So i’m wondering myself and look other recipe to make Caramel sauce Butter amount. OMG ! This recipe Butter amount are too much ! No wonder. So I just reducing (discarding) butter and now perfect Caramel sauce. I don’t know miss print or miss writing or what, what waste my Butter amount ! Be careful to make own caramel sauce ! Actually , I think Butter amount are not a 1/2 cup ! must be, 3 TB butter and 1/2 cup of Brown sugar then !
These are fabulous!! It is a few additional steps from regular brownies, but those are so boring – these are awesome! I made them for a Super Bowl party and people LOVED them. Another review complained about them falling apart and the caramel and popcorn burning. I followed the recipe (with the exception of nuts…don’t like them) and didn’t have either of those problems. They are slightly crumbly, but absolutely no one had a problem with eating it by hand – no need for a fork. I’ll totally be making these again. The one problem – they are addictive!
I made brownies from scratch and added everything as directed… The caramel sauce didn’t turn out very well and burnt in the oven after I had drizzled it, so I tried my best to pick off the pieces of popcorn that had the most burnt caramel. The popcorn seemed to get a bit stale in the oven. The pieces were also really hard to cut and fell apart easily. The taste was pretty good (though super sweet) , but with the burnt caramel and the broken pieces it was kind of a hassle to serve and eat.
These were really good and required minimal additional effort than making regular old box mix brownie (and, lest ye rate the recipe based on calling for boxed mix; obviously, you could sub your own recipe for the brownie base w/the same results). I forgot to pick up peanuts, so I used shaved almonds. They were good, but I’m sure the peanuts will be even better. These took a lot longer to bake in our oven (close to 55 minutes), so be aware when you make these. THANKS for the recipe!