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10 ways upgrade to boxed brownies

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1. Add chunks of your favorite chocolate candy bar into the mix.2. Top brownies with white, chocolate or peanut butter chips as soon as the brownies come out of the oven.3. Add marshmallows to the brownie batter. Stir in ½ of bag of small marshmallows into the prepared brownie batter. Before the brownies are finished baking, sprinkle ½ bag on top of the brownies.4. Add a 1/2 cup of chopped nuts to brownie mix. Peanuts, walnuts, pecans, cashews and almonds are good. 5. Top your brownies with frosting.6. Add cookie pieces to your brownie batter. Break, or chop up some Oreos, Nutterbutters, or Chocolate Chip Cookies. Another idea is to add full-sized cookies to your brownie mix and pour half of the batter in the pan, add the layer of cookies and then the rest of the batter on top.7. Add cream cheese into the batter. Soften 1 package of cream cheese; mix it with ½ cup sugar, 1 egg, and 1 tsp. of vanilla. Pour it into brownie mix.8. Add caramel syrup to the brownies. After pouring the brownies into the pan, pour caramel syrup over the batter and then bake. 9. Make individual brownies. Just pour brownie mix into a sprayed muffin pan to make smaller brownies. 10. Make brownie cookies. Add 4 oz. of cream cheese, 1 egg, ¼ cup of butter and 2 Tbs. of flour to the brownie mix. Stir and soften until it is like cookie dough. Bake at 350 degrees for about 12 minutes.
Writer: Alyssa Troyanek