Many years ago I tasted a chocolate brownie with layered mint frosting that was outstanding! I asked for the recipe but found that the number of steps needed to create the mint layer was more time consuming than I liked. So….what to do?

I cheated! I baked my favorite boxed brownies and then placed Andes Mints across the top of the warm brownies. As they melted, I spread them like frosting. When the brownies cooled the candy became a hard mint chocolate shell on top of the brownies. Pretty awesome for something so fast and easy!

Of course, they probably wouldn’t pass muster for the bake from scratch team, and I’d prefer real homemade myself, but for brownies with a little twist when you don’t have time to bake from scratch, these are mighty good.