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Hazel CastilloHot Brownies ~ the Dark Side
May 5th 2008 22:38
Regular coffee and Earl Grey tea is on the house this morning; everyone coming in this morning is looking bleary eyed.
Here’s a strange tale that a long haul trucker told me about: He’s confessed to being a cereal coffee drinker, can you believe that?
He said it all started innocently enough, he awoke with his taste buds watering at the mental picture of a homemade double chocolate latte, a huge healthy bowl of Cocoa Puffs with extra maraschino cherries, mini-marshmallow, and crispy hot toast slathered with real butter. Although still not quite awake, he stumbled into his kitchen and began assembling the feast, that is when he made the horrific discovery that his once endless supply of chocolate milk had gone feral and disappeared, without so much as a note.
A Morning Started Without Coffee
Panic stricken and nearly insane from his raging double chocolate latte lust craze, he resorted to the seemingly unthinkable. He poured his now luke warm designer blend coffee over the hapless bowl of Coco Puff’s with extra maraschino cherries, mini-marshmallow, and was instantly addicted. To his horror and shame, he’d now plunged into the abyss of caffeine depravity and was now another faceless member of sad faced cereal coffee drinkers; devoid of hope, now wracked in guilt and begging for change on street corners for their next bowl of Caffeinated Coco Puff’s with extra maraschino cherries and mini-marshmallows.
Hey, for my fellow diabetic Coffee Quippers:
Wheat Free Chocolate Brown Bear Fudge Brownies
A diabetic asked recently; is there an authentic wheat free chocolate brownies recipe; most available recipes never quite get the fudgy, stickiness right. Yes, mystery brownie eater, there exists such a recipe and it follows . . . eventually.
The consistency of these sticky chocolate brownies is absolutely wonderful. It produces brownies that are rich, sticky and fudgy with the crunch of the nuts and the chocolate chips. The top of the brownies remains dry and crunchy, giving that absolutely perfect chocolate brownie mix of textures when you bite into it.
Photo purloined from The Dark Side of the Spoon a pfunny pfunny blog.
Gather up these ingredients:
125 g 72% cocoa chocolate, broken into pieces for easier melting
150 g butter, margarine or low-fat spread
275 g light brown sugar 3 medium eggs, beaten
225 g 72% cocoa chocolate chips
150 g pecans, walnuts & almonds, chopped into chunks 1 tsp vanilla extract
50 g rice flour
50 g maize flour
The requisite Conversion Charts
The Assembly:
1. preheat oven: 180°C, fan 160°C, 350°F
2. Line a 275mm x 175mm (11" x 7") tin with non-stick baking paper.
3. Put the broken chocolate and butter into a large bowl and place over a simmering saucepan of water, making sure that the bottom of the bowl does not touch the water. Melt the chocolate and butter together then remove from the heat.
4. Stir the sugar into the melted chocolate and mix well.
5. Add the eggs to the mixture, about 1 egg at a time and mix well between adding each egg. The mixture will start to feel a bit elastic, but keep beating until all the eggs are fully incorporated.
6. Add the chocolate chips, nuts and vanilla extract and mix well together.
7. Stir in the rice and maize flours and make sure that all the ingredients are well combined. Pour into the prepared tin.
8. Bake in the center of the oven for 40-50 minutes. To check whether the brownies are cooked insert a skewer into the center of the brownies, the skewer needs to come out slightly sticky. If it comes out clean then the brownies are overcooked. It's better for this recipe to slightly under cook than overcook, so make sure you do your first check after 40 minutes cooking time, then keep checking every 3-4 minutes until you think that the center is at the right sticky consistency.
9. Remove the brownies from the oven and allow to substantially cool while still in the tin. Remove from tin and place on a cooling rack, cut into squares and allow to cool completely before storing in an airtight container.
Added value: These sticky chocolate brownies will keep in an airtight container for about a week. You can also freeze them if you want to put them out of temptations way. Served with organic vanilla ice cream they make a great dessert for kids and big kids alike.
Raven
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been in front of my PC for 4 straight hours. no breaks at all.
sheesh my tummy's forming a revolution a la 300!
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Hahahaha....ouch.
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Good to uh, hear from you again.
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How are the studies going?
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The studies are better this week, thanks,Raven. Somehow I scrambled my way through that assignment and actually did OK. Exhausting business though. Thanks for your ideas and help.
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I'm going to go to bed and fight off my annoying cold, it's been quite a day.
As for you and your studies, completing them is important and for a while the processes may not be pretty, but the harder you struggle to learn things; when you do "get it" you'll never understand why you didn't initially.
I never understood any kind of math until I started studying at a college level for the engineering studies I was involved in, and to my surprise one day I woke and understood the language of math fluently.
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I know what you mean with studying. That feeling when something drops into place is fantastic. I just learnt that it's called disconfirmation.
This is my second post-grad course and it's fantastic but the workload is huuge. But I'll get there!
Hope you're feeling better today, thanks for the brownies and wisdom.
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