Alolan Dugtrio brownie bites!

100% edible, these cuties are brownies with chocolate custard in a chocolate shell, with edible sugar hair! It’s all all served on rock candy and crushed Oreos!

More pics and details on how I made them below!

According to the Pokémon website, Alolans consider Dugtrio to be an incarnation of the god of the land. Removing Alolan Dugtrio whiskers from the Alola region is prohibited. It’s said that those who take them receive divine punishment.



Thankfully, you can make these cuties in your own home without having to worry about divine punishment!



First, I baked some brownies in the Wilton brownie pop mold (I specifically waited for a 55% off sale at Michael’s to buy one, haha). Once they cooled and I popped them out, I melted chocolate and coating the inside of the mold with it. Once the chocolate solidified, they became little hard shells I could easily take out. I trimmed down the brownies so they would fit inside the shells. I gave each shell a nice layer of this chocolate custard recipe from my Pokémon malasada post before putting the brownies inside for a chocolate overload.



My partner and I printed out a little template of Dugtrio faces, which we placed underneath wax paper. We melted chocolate in different colours and traced the little eyes and noses in chocolate to make little Dugtrio faces! Here’s one with the chocolate pieces from my Pokémon malasadas for scale!



Once the pieces had hardened, I attached the eyes and noses using some melted chocolate. Regular Dugtrio are cute, too, but there’s definitely something missing!



The coolest part was making the hair. Alolan Dugtrio’s whiskers are actually based on Pele’s hair, a phenomenon in Hawaii where lava from a volcano is caught and pulled in the wind, stretching it out into hair-like strands as it cools. I recreated this by making spun sugar!

I learned how to do this from the tutorial on making a Trolls cake from Cookies, Cupcakes and Cardio! I bought some clear Isomalt online, melted it, dyed it yellow, and used two forks to quickly flick it back and forth over a bowl, stretching the sugar as it cooled, just like Pele’s hair!



The assembly was the hardest part! Spun sugar is not easy to handle. My partner and I wore gloves as we attached the sugar to the Dugtrio heads with melted chocolate. We were using very small, delicate strands of sugar, so it was really hard to handle!

For the display, I sprinkled crushed up Oreo crumbs and chocolate candy rocks on a cake board, arranged the Dugtrio, and viola! They were ridiculously chocolatey, but they were a really fun little experiment!

