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    Home » Recipes » Dessert » Bar Cookies

    Rat Brownie Bites Forever Nigella: Halloween Horrors

    Published by Melissa on October 31, 2011 | Updated November 14, 2022 | 40 Comments

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    Rat Brownie Bites Forever Nigella: Halloween Horrors

    My talented, award-winning travel writer/food blogger, virtually adopted Australian daughter Lorraine, Not Quite Nigella, loves Halloween. Every year she hosts a fabulous Halloween party complete with costumes and spooky food.

    This year she posted Rat Plague Brownie Bites! Such a creepy, fun and delicious idea.

    The current Forever Nigella blogging challenge is Forever Nigella: Halloween Horrors. I was looking for a fun way to add a Halloween twist to a Nigella recipe, so when I saw Lorraine’s rats it seemed like a match made in heaven. Or should I say some place spookier?

    I used Nigella’s Everyday Brownie recipe to make Not Quite Nigella’s Rats! Dark chocolate brownies are dipped in chocolate and dressed up with eyes, ears, nose, whiskers, and a tail.

    Rat-Brownie-Bites-Collage-Barbara-Bakes

    It was a fun, but frustrating project. Frustrating because the brownies were a bit dry and didn’t want to squish together to form the rat shape. (I probably overcooked them.) So I resorted to adding a bit of water while I was shaping the brownies. It didn’t work perfectly but good enough to get a few creepy looking rats.

    I’m serving these rats tonight when my new grandson comes trick or treating at grandma’s house for the first time. I’m also serving Ghost of Monte Cristo sandwiches for dinner. I’m hoping to get some fun picture of the sandwiches and my grandson. I’ll try and update my post tomorrow with additional pictures.

    Update: Here’s the pics from tonight. The sandwiches were fun, but just alright. Having my grandson stop by to trick or treat priceless!!

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    Evan-1st-Halloween-Collage

    More fun Halloween posts you’ll enjoy:

    Fun Halloween Recipes & Crafts, Cookin’ Canuck
    NQN’s Hellish Halloween Party, Not Quite Nigella
    Halloween Cupcakes:Monsters, Mummies & Ghosts, Hoosier Homemade
    Halloween Ideas for the ‘kid’ in all of us, The Changeable Table

    Giveway Winners: The winners of the Taste of Home Baking Cookbooks are Janette Griffin and Ambika. Please contact me within 48 hours with your mailing address to claim your prize. Congratulations!! Thanks to everyone that entered, for your sweet comments, and welcome to all the new followers!

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    1. Deeba Rajpal (@vindee)

      November 07, 2011 at 8:34 am

      Awww GF, the little lad is so cute! Love Lorraines little brownie rats; great idea. And I do love your spooky sandwiches too. What fun!! xoxo

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    2. Jamie

      November 05, 2011 at 4:54 am

      Oh Barbara, your grandson is fabulous and gorgeous! Oh boy you must be proud, thrilled and all over him! Adorable! Congratulations again, Grandma! And I saw these rats on Lorraine’s blog and think they are too funny! Or should they be scary? And I love Lorraine and hope one day to attend one of her glorious, infamous Halloween Parties!

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    3. Lisa

      November 04, 2011 at 7:12 pm

      I’m late to the Halloween party, but I love these! Lorraine is awesome, as are you, and these brownie rats are creepy and lovely at the same time! Your grandson is just precious! 🙂

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    4. Robin

      November 04, 2011 at 2:40 pm

      So cute! We make a version of these for Christmas using half of an oreo, maraschino cherries with stems and Chocolate Kisses, melted chocolate, sliced almonds and red and green icing gel.

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    5. Sue

      November 03, 2011 at 5:27 pm

      Your rats look MUCH cuter and tastier than the real thing! I bet you had fun with you new little pumpkin at your house! 🙂 XO

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    6. Sandy @Southwestgirl

      November 03, 2011 at 1:28 pm

      Barbara! I thought these were the cutest things I’ve ever seen… Until I scrolled down to see your adorable Grandbaby. Too cute!

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    7. Sandra

      November 03, 2011 at 4:33 am

      I am scared of rats yet still I am tempted to give your chocolate rats a try. Besides, I think your chocolate rats look delicious. Wow, your grandson is so cute and it is his first Halloween. I am so happy for him.

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    8. Jessi @ Quirky Cookery

      November 02, 2011 at 8:42 pm

      Awww, the mice are so cute. Er, I mean, they’re horrifying, ahhhh! 😛

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    9. Megan

      November 02, 2011 at 4:04 pm

      The rat brownie bites are adorable but your grandson takes the cake! 😉 How fun for you.

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    10. Emily

      November 02, 2011 at 1:48 am

      they look fantastic and the baby it’s adorable! many kisses dear Barbara!
      have a wonderful day!

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    11. Nutmeg Nanny

      November 01, 2011 at 9:17 pm

      Those little mice brownies are adorable! I love their little almond ears 🙂

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    12. Cookin' Canuck

      November 01, 2011 at 1:35 pm

      Your little grandson is absolutely adorable. Truly – he is a beautiful little baby! I’ll bet he will enjoy all of his grandma’s awesome treats as he is growing up. These Halloween rats are really fun.

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    13. tiffany ~food finery

      November 01, 2011 at 8:31 am

      that baby boy is amazingly adorable!!!!! what a fun halloween “treat” for you, grandma 🙂 also… the rats??? awesome! my dad calls “K” a rat so i’d have loved to do these!!! we made him a chocolate/peanut butter rat from a candy mold 🙂 she wrote… “from the RAT!!!”

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    14. Paula

      November 01, 2011 at 7:20 am

      Your grandson is precious! Love your little rats.

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    15. Barbara

      November 01, 2011 at 5:05 am

      Love your grandson’s pumpkin outfit and his little bib! He’s a honey for sure.
      Lorraine’s little mice are the perfect treat for trickers on Halloween.

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    16. shaz

      November 01, 2011 at 4:13 am

      Way too cute! I saw these on Lorraine’s blog too, eating the bloodied arm, he he. Great work even though the brownies didn’t want to co-operate at first. And your grandson is just the cutest little pumpkin 🙂

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    17. Angie's Recipes

      October 31, 2011 at 11:56 pm

      They are too cute to eat!

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    18. Katrina

      October 31, 2011 at 10:29 pm

      So fun and sweet pictures! I’ll bet that little guy just ate those rats up. 😉

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    19. angela@spinachtiger

      October 31, 2011 at 8:30 pm

      Nice to see another fan of Lorraine’s. I’m so glad someone else made her cute rats too. Great job.

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