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Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Outrageous!
No, nothing controversial here. Just indicating the name of my brownie recipe. It's funny that SATenor did the blog earlier about a little cake for 1-2 people and I just happen to be making a pan of brownies that looks like everyone in Humzoo is invited to the party (well, you are but the commute will kill you!). My soon-to-depart co-workers are being allowed to pick a treat before they go. First one was the chocolate mint sticks of yore. Actually that pick will be repeated in 2 weeks--another one picked the same recipe (must say something about it!). The second pick is brownies. Nothing fancy, just good old-fashioned plain brownies with nuts.
I have a very good recipe that came from Barefoot Contessa called Outrageous Brownies. Start with a pound of butter and a pound of chocolate (got your interest already!).
Toss in a few eggs, some flour, sugar, a little instant coffee, vanilla and baking powder. Then another (nearly) pound of chocolate chips and (nearly) a pound chopped nuts (I used pecans)
Find your biggest cookie baking pan (referred to as a half-sheet in bakeries--if you have ever seen a big bakery cake brought to an event that's usually a full-sheet so think 1/2 that full of brownie batter!)
Bake until done (roughly 30 mins). The interesting thing is halfway through the baking you lift and drop the pan on the rack in the oven to release the air in the brownie to really make it chewy and dense and less airy. Most people prefer a non-cakey brownie.
Oh, the reason I went with this big recipe is to share some of these brownies with another co-worker who works in another building. I've been promising him brownies and the way things go at offices these days...maybe I'd better make them now and not trust the future. LOL
Outrageous!
No, nothing controversial here. Just indicating the name of my brownie recipe. It's funny that SATenor did the blog earlier about a little cake for 1-2 people and I just happen to be making a pan of brownies that looks like everyone in Humzoo is invited to the party (well, you are but the commute will kill you!). My soon-to-depart co-workers are being allowed to pick a treat before they go. First one was the chocolate mint sticks of yore. Actually that pick will be repeated in 2 weeks--another one picked the same recipe (must say something about it!). The second pick is brownies. Nothing fancy, just good old-fashioned plain brownies with nuts.
I have a very good recipe that came from Barefoot Contessa called Outrageous Brownies. Start with a pound of butter and a pound of chocolate (got your interest already!).
Toss in a few eggs, some flour, sugar, a little instant coffee, vanilla and baking powder. Then another (nearly) pound of chocolate chips and (nearly) a pound chopped nuts (I used pecans)
Find your biggest cookie baking pan (referred to as a half-sheet in bakeries--if you have ever seen a big bakery cake brought to an event that's usually a full-sheet so think 1/2 that full of brownie batter!)
Bake until done (roughly 30 mins). The interesting thing is halfway through the baking you lift and drop the pan on the rack in the oven to release the air in the brownie to really make it chewy and dense and less airy. Most people prefer a non-cakey brownie.
Oh, the reason I went with this big recipe is to share some of these brownies with another co-worker who works in another building. I've been promising him brownies and the way things go at offices these days...maybe I'd better make them now and not trust the future. LOL
I agree--she has some great recipes and I have quite a few of them in my list. Every one I have tried has been a success. Hopefully the guys will enjoy them as much as you do visually. LOL
After thinking about the outrageous brownies, I think I remember seeing that episode of the Contessa making them. Possibly for a picnic.
She's made them twice. Once with chopped Oreos and once like this with the nuts. I have both recipes. I don't think I've done the Oreo one yet.
I'll try to do one of the ones you indicated and let you know how big and how easy and of course take photos when I do. My mugs are 12 oz, I think. Can't remember. I kept seeing cakes or desserts made in mugs and baked in the oven so I looked long and hard for a good deal on one that could go in the oven. And it is a pretty mug too--red with a pedestal type base.
-bek
http://www.plantoftheweek.org/image/lantana.jpg
http://pubs.caes.uga.edu/caespubs/horticulture/Gold%20M...
http://www.depts.ttu.edu/hillcountry/research/images/LA...
Was that you? Am I remembering correctly? If not, I'll have to go on an all-out Humzoo search!
Maybe this one? Pegi said she thought it was that, I believe. Those photos in the links are gorgeous!