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\"\"Hoo-boy! This is over the top\u2013even for me. I hesitated and dithered about adding this to my blog\u00a0because I didn’t know if anyone would actually want to go to this much work for a candy-coated brownie, but my trusted friend Mary assured me that the description of my struggles would be interesting, at least. We’ll see about that.<\/p>\n

You know the drill. First I tell you about all the steps I used, then I let you off the hook with easy alternatives. Yes, yes, I’m going to do that again. But first, I want to mention that maybe it just seemed<\/em> like this was an insanely big production. It took me a couple of days, but that’s because I had to adjust my brownie recipe so that it would bake as evenly as possible. No big, tall, crunchy sides and sunken center for this baby. And then I decided (no wine was involved, I promise) that it would save time if I coated one side with orange candy melts, thinking I could then just cut and dip in yellow and white. Um. I have issues with spacial concepts – can’t imagine how something will work unless I actually try it.<\/p>\n

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Nope. Learn from my mistakes, and don’t try to create a shortcut. Resign yourself to a lot of messy dipping!<\/p><\/div>\n

It didn’t. There were still sides that would need orange coating, and I just used up all of my orange\u00a0melts. Pffft. Luckily I had an extra bag of white melts, so naturally, I added red food coloring to my bag of yellow melts to make orange, and then colored the extra bag of white melts yellow. Why didn’t I just color the white melts orange? There was a reason, but I can’t remember. I’m old.<\/p>\n

I also played with the icing, trying to incorporate melted candy corn. It.Did.Not.Work. That stuff is like taffy. (And as an aside, if you see the recipe that insists you can make homemade Butterfingers with candy corn, don’t believe it for a minute. You will get yummy chewy peanut butter taffy. I know.) So I finally gave up and used buttercream.<\/p>\n

Maybe, maybe<\/em> if I made them again, knowing what I know now, it wouldn’t seem overwhelming. But that ship has sailed, and I’m moving on. Give this a try if you’re bored and want a challenge .\u00a0. . and if you enjoy washing lots of dishes.<\/p>\n

If I were to make them again, I might make them smaller, too. They’d be easier to dip.<\/p>\n

And if you decide to:<\/p>\n