Chocolate Chunk and Smoked Pecan Brownies à la Mode with Coconut Caramel

Name: Chocolate Chunk and Smoked Pecan Brownies à la Mode with Coconut Caramel
Cuisine: Thai
Ingredients: ¼ cup (60 ml) water; 2 cups (448 g) coconut milk; 1 cup (100 g) pecan halves; 12 tablespoons (168 g) unsalted butter, plus more as needed; 9 ounces (255 g) bittersweet chocolate chips; 1½ cups (300 g) white sugar; 1¼ cups (210 g) light brown sugar, lightly packed; 3 eggs; 2 egg yolks; ¾ teaspoon kosher salt; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 1 cup (125 g) all-purpose flour; 6 ounces (170 g) semisweet chocolate, cut into chunks; 2 scoops vanilla bean ice cream per serving

Preparation info

Makes
1
pan, 9 x 9 x 2 inch 23 x 23 x 5 cm )

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Asian Smoke

By Andrew Ho , Andrew Samia and Sean Wen

Published 2026

About

I’m going to try to refrain from saying “ooey-gooey” to describe this recipe, but Lord knows it’ll be next to impossible. I’m not sure I’ve ever encountered a brownie I didn’t like. It doesn’t matter if it’s Cosmic Brownies, some Betty Crocker brownie mix, a box of Trader Joe’s Brownie Bites, your grandmother’s secret brownie recipe, or your other grandmother’s secret brownie recipe: If I see it, I’m going to gobble it up. You want to know something crazy? I don’t even crave chocolate, but

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Asia
Thailand
Dessert
Vegetarian

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