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[potato_head]

BAKING SUCCESS. Today I did the experimental less-butter batch of brownies and the puppy chow. THEN I TOOK PHOTOS :D

Nutella Brownies

These came out AWESOME. Accordingly, here is my version of the recipe (please note I took most of the recipe, including quite a bit of unedited text; much kudos to the original recipe writer and translator).

Ingredients

1/2 cup all-purpose flour

1/4 teaspoon salt

2 eggs

one whole 13oz tub of Nutella (or as much as you can get out of it)

1/2 cup brown sugar*

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

7 tbsp unsalted** butter (that's 7/8 of a stick) - melted, room temperature

*I hear it also turns out fine with regular white sugar, but have not tried it myself
**You can also use salted butter, but don't add the 1/4 teaspoon salt in that case

Directions

Put rack in center of oven. Preheat oven to 325°F. Line a 9inch square pan with parchment paper (making sure all sides are covered).

In a bowl, mix flour and salt. Set aside.

In another bowl, with an electric mixer, beat eggs, nutella, brown sugar and vanilla until the mixture is creamy and homogeneous. I recommend heating the spoon you use to scoop the nutella with - run it under hot water or pull it fresh from the dishwasher. It makes it much easier to scoop AND to get it off the spoon, which is the real obnoxious part.

Mixing at low speed, add dry ingredients (that's the flour and salt you set aside earlier) incrementally, alternating with melted butter.

Spread in the pan. Cook 35 to 40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of cake comes out with lumps and not completely clean.

Let cool in the pan about 2 hours. If you do not let it cool, it will not cut properly, it'll just kind of fall apart. ONCE COOL cut in squares and serve.

So yeah these were delicious and even though I finished them at freaking midnight and it is now 1:44 AM as I am writing, there is a single brownie left. One single brownie. And NO I did not eat them all, I only had two. Paige had one, and then Derek and a friend he has over came downstairs and cleared out like TWO ROWS and then Dad woke up and ate three and now there is only one.

Oh, btw, the main things I changed from the original recipe were to remove butter - by using parchment paper to line all the sides, rather than buttering two of the sides, and removing one tbsp of butter from the actual mix (dough? I feel like brownie in its larval form is too wet to be called dough). I also added uh, like a spoonful of nutella, because the one cup called for in the original recipe is only a bit less than a jar, and more=better of course. Anyways, the result DOES leave a bit of butter on the bottom of the pan, but no puddles of butter on your plate! Yay!

OK photos now!


Before cutting. (I used a fork instead of a toothpick to check that it was done...can you tell? 6 u 9)


After cutting.


SHORTLY BEFORE NOMMING.



Puppy Chow

MOST DELICIOUS THING EVER OH MY GOD I stopped in the middle of writing up the brownie section to go eat a bit of puppy chow. I used this recipe, the only change I made was using 8 cups of cereal instead of 9 and even then I had a bit of a hard time getting the chocolate to cover all of the cereal. If you're patient and someone who prefers less coating on your cereal then the whole 9 cups would probably be fine. I am neither of those things, lmfao. Also, I would recommend using a small saucepan (probably your smallest) to do the chocolate, pre-measuring the cereal into a large mixing bowl, and pouring the chocolate/peanut butter over the cereal while you mix it.

And if you've never melted chocolate before don't worry it is actually very easy! Just make sure to KEEP IT ON THE LOWEST SETTING and STIR THE WHOLE TIME, FROM THE VERY BEGINNING, I PROMISE IT IS ALREADY MELTING AT THE BOTTOM.

OK PHOTOS GO


In a bowl! Very exciting.


HEY LOOK, MY FINGERS!

BRB resisting eating more puppy chow.

Comments

[anobjectinspace.livejournal.com]

I AM GOING TO NEED YOU TO POST ME SOME OF ALL OF THIS!!

And now picture post is up... I can do nomblog :-P You realise I'm linking to this post too, right? Right?

(Yeh... that was me asking permission... in my lovely bossy way...)

[poto-heart.livejournal.com]

Of course I realize this xD

[anobjectinspace.livejournal.com]

Excellent.

I am glad you are prepared to deal with such a demanding friend.

We will go far.

[poto-heart.livejournal.com]

Pfft hahaha xD <3

[anobjectinspace.livejournal.com]

At least you don't know me in r/l.

You'd be DOOMED.

[poto-heart.livejournal.com]

You'd be DOOMED ALL OVER ME LIKE A GREEDY PUPPY LOOKING FOR TREATS AND PETS.

Fixed that for you.

ALTHOUGH I AM NOT SURE IT MAKES SENSE NOW.

[anobjectinspace.livejournal.com]

It makes perfect sense and you would fit in well with Holly.

*pets you and gives you chocolate*

[poto-heart.livejournal.com]

Pfft I would probably annoy the hell out of her like I annoy Tripper xD

[anobjectinspace.livejournal.com]

You'd play with her, right?

Then you'd be her BEST PERSON EVER.

[poto-heart.livejournal.com]

Yes, but then I would also try to cuddle with her while she was sleeping.

Or maybe only Tripper is annoyed by people who do that. ONLY HE IS ALLOWED TO INITIATE SLEEP CUDDLES. He strongly objects to his butt being used as a pillow.

[anobjectinspace.livejournal.com]

Lol Holly's full-time job is as a pillow. And a quilt. And a shawl.

Sounds like you'd be bestest friends!

[poto-heart.livejournal.com]

YAY.

Going to go bake more brownies now. WITH PEANUT BUTTER CHIPS WOOOO.

[anobjectinspace.livejournal.com]

NOMNOMNOMNOM have fun!