Brownies

These brownies are super moist, super chewy, super fudgey, and full of great mint chocolate flavor!  I got this recipe from my 'The Best of Fine Cooking: Cookies' magazine which has great recipes including this brownies recipe that I also tried.  The original recipe called for using peppermint tea leaves (grinding them up and mixing them with the sugar), peppermint extract, and using unsweetened chocolate.  Instead, I omitted the peppermint leaves and the peppermint extract and substituted the unsweetened chocolate for mint chocolate.  I just used Chipits

Once again I was inspired by one of my favorite bakers, Bakerella, to make something out of the ordinary.  When I discovered this recipe on her website I just fell in love and had to find an excuse to make them.  My work was planning a picnic at the beach and I thought what a great event to whip out these cute dessert burgers.  They were fun to make and obviously tasted amazing because who wouldn't love a brownie sandwiched between a cupcake filled with icing.  I had a little extra dough at the end so I made some mini cupcake burgers as well using my mini muffin tin. 

I wanted to try something fun today and I remembered that I had a bag of Maltesers in my closet that I forgot about.  I was first going to put them into a cookie recipe but then I thought I would try it with brownies instead because I was in a major chocolate mood.  My goal was to make a dense cakey fudge brownie with hints of crunch and sweetness from the Maltesers.  Although the brownies tasted good, the results were not the same as the picture I created in my head.  They turned out to be more cakey than I hoped and the crushed up Maltesers that I mixed into the batter ended up melting during baking and lost their crunch factor.  The brownies still had great chocolate flavor with a hint of sweetness from the melted Maltesers and the

This recipe was some what of an experiment for me that kind of worked out well.  I wanted to make a good bar recipe that was for the non-chocolate lovers out there and something other than a traditional blondie.  I have lots and lots of vanilla that I have gotten as gifts from here and there so I decided to put them to good use and try out some of them.  The recipe turned out well with a more cake-like, rather than fudgey-like texture with a good chewiness to it as well.  The flavor was like a blondie but definitely had more vanilla flavor than a butterscotch flavor like most classic blondies do.