BROWNIES
About a week ago I had to make brownies. I mean it, I HAD to. So off I went looking for the best recipe I could find. While stumbling through www.foodgawker.com I found this fantastic recipe. Now as amazing as this recipe is, I can't leave a recipe as is (also I had a boy begging for some hazelnuts), so I modified it. What I have learned was that a chocolate and butter mixture can be replaced by nutella in a 1:1 ratio without consequences. So do it!
This is what you need:
(The recipe below is roughly converted to cups. This may seem like a problem but really I found there wasn't a crucial quantity of chocolate/butter mixture necessary. Roughly close is good enough.)
About 1 cup chocolate chips (high quality is always better)
1.5 sticks butter
200 g (I think I put in about a cup) nutella
2.5 cups sugar
6 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 cups flour
2 cups hazelnuts
Preheat over to 340 degreed F.
Melt the butter, chocolate, and nutella in a small sauce pan until smooth and glossy. Make sure not to burn your chocolate. A good method if you don't have a double boiler is to melt the butter first and add the chocolate in after while keeping the pot off the heat. The idea is that the butter will melt the chocolate all on its own without burning it.
Add your vanilla and let the mixture cool. In a separate bowl whisk together eggs and sugar until they are a pale yellow and smooth. Add in the cooled chocolate mixture and mix thoroughly.
Now add your flower little bits at a time. The online recipe asked you to fold it in but I felt lazy and didn't want to dirty another dish so I just whisked it right in and it was just fine. Lastly, mix in your nuts.
Now you're ready. At this point you will start realizing you've made WAY too much of this batter. About 3 times too much. Do not worry, they will be devoured quickly. I think my giant pan and a half got eaten within a 3 day span.
Now grease up some pans generously and pop them in the oven for about 40-45 minutes. The brownies are done with a toothpick inserted into the center comes out dry or with a few cooked crumbs.
I have several testimonies claiming these are some darn good brownies :) So enjoy!
NINJA COOKIES
I don't have a good picture of these. You can blame school for that, but they did come out looking a lot like the picture from the website where I found this recipe. I basically stole this one down to the t. Please keep in mind, this is not my own recipe, I did not modify it, and all credit goes to the owner of that blog.
Okay! Continuing back in time.
CRINKLE COOKIES!
I took this recipe from another person as well. I used vegetable oil as described in the recipe. I urge you not to do this! Vegetable oil is very flavorful, and though it might just be me being picky, it's also not very yummy. Stick to butter where you can. Having said this, no one but me seemed to say a word about the oil flavor and they all seemed to enjoy them quite a bit. Without further ado, here is a link to the recipe (which was again stolen :)
And at last we come to a little present I made for my boyfriend Sam after I made the companion cube and a saw a little twinkle of jealousy since he never got to even see that cake. Behold....
TETRIS CAKE
This cake is far more complex than its simple shape would lead you to believe. It was inspired by a caramel macchiato I was drinking while coming up with this compilation. It has a caramel coffee marble cake base soaked in a homemade coffee syrup with caramel butter cream between each layer and coffee butter cream under the fondant. To give it that extra bit of wonderfulness I also hid some heath bar bits in the inner layers. To put it simply, this cake took forever to make but was so very worth it!
Recipes to come once I find them :P
AWESOME TETRIS CAKE!!!!
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