0 Brownies

From scratch! Ok, so I really only made these because another recipe called for brownies. The recipe I used can be found >HERE< but I need to go ahead and say that I left out the chips on purpose. 

Here is how they turned out:

Oooh yeah, and in case you couldn't tell this was after the ritual sacrifice to the kitchen gods was made. Heres what you need:

Easy enough right? I thought so. I also thought we could go ahead and do this by hand.

So we start with 1 1/2 C sugar

We then stir in 3/4 C flour

Then we add 3/4 C cocoa powder, I used Hershey's but you can use something a little more pricey if you feel like splurging, it will reflect in the flavor.

Add three eggs

Stir it up good

Add a stick and a quarter of softened butter

And mix it, this is going to require some elbow grease, I'm not even going to lie -it was really hard. 

Line your baking pan with parchment paper, I used wax paper. 

Spread the brownie mix in the pan

Get it nice and even

Make your ritual sacrifice to the kitchen gods to ensure the batch bakes properly..

Put them in at 325F and bake for 20-30min 

YAY! Brownies!! Who doesn't love brownies? These were no exception. I normally write a little but here about what I thought of how it turned out or who liked it and what they had to say but, they're brownies.. They're good, I know it, you know  it, if you don't, you need to make these and you too can join those of us who love brownies. 

Happy baking!

Enjoy! =]

0 Coffee Cup Brownies

So this morning I woke up to this:

And I hate snow. I don't know if you can tell from these pictures but those snowflakes are HUGE, like the size of silver dollars. It was is crazy, its still coming down =(

So my first instinct was to get the oven going, but when I picked up my camera to get things going (I was going to start with pictures of the snow) my camera looked something like this:

So I put it on the charger and had a bowl of cereal while deciding what to bake today.. I'm pretty sure by now its charged so here we go =]

This is everything you will need, you technically don't need the vanilla but I add it to prettymuch everything so.. theres that. 

Put 4 tablespoons of flour in the mug..

Then add 4 Tablespoons of sugar...

Add 2 tablespoons of cocoa (which you would have in your cabinet if you made the oreos last week)

Put the egg in there too..

Use a fork to break up the egg, I find them easier to mix when they're broken up some before you mix the whole thing

Add 3 tablespoons of milk

And 3 tablespoons of oil

Mix it all up, and note: this tastes nowhere near as good as brownie batter from a box... sorry, but I'm a huge fan of eating dough/batter as you go, this recipe is highly non-conducive to that..

Put it in the microwave for 3mins

Tell the clean-up crew that you're sorry but chocolate is bad for them..

Crappy picture, I know and I apologize, but it will rise like this at about a minute and a half left

Don't worry though it goes back down

It looks wet and kinda gross and you'll want to put it back in but DON'T, its fine, it'll dry out in a second

Grab you a fork and dig in =] 

Eat it warm, it gets dry if you don't, the warm makes up for the dry some. I found this recipe online >HERE< sorry, the link doesn't go directly to the recipe but thats the site it came from. 

Enjoy!

Happy baking =]