Celebrate Christmas/Life Day With Your Very Own Peppermint Jawa Brownies

The following was originally posted on Siegle’s YummyCrumble blog under the title Star Wars Peppermint Jawa Brownies and has been republished with permission.

Lately my son has been asking me to make something Star Wars again.  Oliver is smitten. The first words out of his little mouth every morning are “Pew Pew Pew!”  So to appease him, and my Christmas craziness, I made these Peppermint Jawa Brownies. Jawas are kind of the Christmas elves of Star Wars, right? You might be thinking… Star Wars and Christmas? Well, let me give you this link to the Star Wars Holiday Special. It will explain everything. If you ever get a hold of the footage, you might feel a little uneasy. It’s that bad. So bad it’s good.

Dark chocolate brownies cut into little Jawas and filled with peppermint dark chocolate ganache. Don’t forget the cute candy eyes for these Peppermint Jawa Brownies! These are irresistibly adorable and easy!

I just used boxed brownie mix for these because, well, boxed brownie mix is the bomb. Do people still say that? Sigh. After baking the brownies, I cut out the Jawas with a cute little cookie cutter, but you can just as easily make the shape with a knife. It was so stinking easy, I laughed through the whole process. “Why are you laughing mamma?” “No reason…” “Okay! Pew pew pew!” After pressing in their little faces, I filled them with melted chocolate that was tinted with peppermint extract. You can use whatever flavoring you like and even fill in the little faces with peanut butter or Biscoff Cookie Butter. But in the name of Christmas…I chose peppermint! (Totally optional) But remember, Christmas craziness is here. Let’s start the season right! You can’t forget the little candy eyes though. I feel that makes the Jawa. You can find them at any craft store, and sometimes the supermarket will have the gold tinted ones. Place the little guys in the freezer to hang out for like five minutes or so, and then chow down. These were super easy to make! If you want to know how to make your very own Peppermint Jawa Brownies, click on through to the next page!

I’m Kathleen and Yummy Crumble is where I explore my sweet tooth and share it with you. I’m not gonna lie. Sweets make my heart flutter. Gooey chocolate chip cookies. Cupcakes with mile high frosting. I won’t even turn down fruit cake! Other things that make my heart flutter are my two beautiful children and of course my lovely husband. You can find me on Twitter and Instagram!

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Jill Pantozzi

Jill Pantozzi is a pop-culture journalist and host who writes about all things nerdy and beyond! She’s Editor in Chief of the geek girl culture site The Mary Sue (Abrams Media Network), and hosts her own blog “Has Boobs, Reads Comics” (TheNerdyBird.com). She co-hosts the Crazy Sexy Geeks podcast along with superhero historian Alan Kistler, contributed to a book of essays titled “Chicks Read Comics,” (Mad Norwegian Press) and had her first comic book story in the IDW anthology, “Womanthology.” In 2012, she was featured on National Geographic’s "Comic Store Heroes," a documentary on the lives of comic book fans and the following year she was one of many Batman fans profiled in the documentary, "Legends of the Knight."

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