Mint Brownies

Here's a *green* recipe to help you with your

St. Patrick's Day celebrations!

Mint Brownies

2 cups flour

2 cups sugar

1/2 c. buttermilk***

2 eggs

1/2 tsp. baking soda

1 tsp vanilla

1 cup margarine

5 tbsp. cocoa

1 cup water

Preheat oven to 350*

***if you do not have buttermilk, NEVER FEAR! I have a shortcut for that!

***To make buttermilk, measure 1 tbsp lemon juice, and then add enough milk

to make 1 cup total liquid. Let sit for 5 minutes.

This recipe calls for 1/2 cup buttermilk, so I assume you could do 1/2 tbsp lemon juice

and then finish with enough milk to make 1/2 cup liquid.***

(I say assume, because I didn't actually do it. I made the 1 cup total mixture)

In a large bowl, combine flour and sugar.

In a seperate bowl, combine buttermilk, eggs, baking soda and vanilla.

Combine and set aside.

In a small sauce pan, melt margarine and add cocoa and water.

Bring all ingredients to boil.

Once boiling, remove from heat. Set aside.

Combine the buttermilk mixture with the flour and sugar.

SLOWLY add the chocolate mixture...we don't want to cook the eggs!

Pour into a greased cookie sheet and bake for 10-15 minutes.

Until the center is done.

Allow to cool completely!

Mint Frosting:

2 cups powdered sugar plus extra if needed.

1/2 cup margarine, softened

2 tbsp milk

1/2 tsp peppermint extract

2-3 drops of green food coloring

In a seperate bowl, combine all ingredients and mix with beater until

ingredients are smooth.

Add extra powdered sugar if needed to get the consistancy desired.

Spread on top of COOLED cake.

For chocolate topping:

Melt 6 tbsp margarine and 1 cup milk chocolate chips.

Drizzle across brownies.

Yeah, I got distracted and my chocolate cooled a bit too much...

so it didn't exactly DRIZZLE...but that's ok...right?

"Layers of Love" chocolate brownies

This recipe is from the Nestle brand cook book.

They looked intriguing...so I thought I'd take a shot at them!

They were really pretty good...

and all the goodness stuffed in the middle was excellent!

The name could stand to be changed...just a tad bit!

Oh well.

Layers of Love Chocolate Brownies

3/4 cup flour

3/4 cup cocoa

1/4 tsp salt

1/2 cup butter, softened

1/2 cup sugar

1/2 cup brown sugar

3 large eggs

2 tsp vanilla

1 cup chopped pecans

3/4 cup white chips

1/2 cup caramel topping

3/4 cup chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350*

In a large bowl, beat butter and sugars until creamy.

Add 2 eggs, one at a time until mixed well.

Add vanilla.

Gradually mix in dry ingredients.

Reserve 3/4 cup batter.

Spread remaining batter into greased 8 x 8 pan.

Sprinkle with the pecans and white chips.

Drizzle caramel topping over nuts and chips.

Beat the other remaining egg into reserved batter.

Stir in chocolate chips.

Spread evenly over the caramel goodness!

Bake for 30 to 35 minutes.

Cool completely before serving.

Chocolate Marshmallow Brownies

Another tried and true recipe from my Grandma Travis.
There was a time that we would request these for EVERY family party.
Our family LOVES these marshmallow-y goodness!
And it is oh.so.easy to make also!
Chocolate Marshmallow Brownies
2 cubes margarine, softened
2 cups sugar
1/3 cup cocoa
2 tsp. vanilla
4 eggs
1 1/2 cups flour
1 1/2 cups nuts (optional)

bag of mini marshmallows
Preheat oven to 350*

Mix sugar and margarine until smooth, then add cocoa and vanilla.
Once combined, add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each egg is added.
Add flour and nuts.
Spread batter on a large greased cookie sheet.
The batter will be kinda stiff....that's a good thing!

Bake for 25 minutes.
Remove from oven and immediately cover with a 10.5 oz bag
of mini marshmallows.

Bake for an additional 3 minutes.
Remove from oven.

The marshmallows are just fluffy and big now!

Allow them to cool completely.

Make the frosting while the brownies are cooling.

FROSTING:

1/2 cup butter

1/4 c cocoa

1/3 cup canned milk

Powdered Sugar (approximately 2 cups)

In a small bowl combine all the ingredients and add the

powdered sugar until the frosting is to the desired consistency.

If you serve them the day you make them...

you will have the sticky marshmallow goodness.

If you wait a day, the marshmallows won't be as sticky.

Either way.....DELICIOUS!

Waffle Brownies

Looking for something fun to make?

Something the kids would have fun helping with?

This is it!

It is easy and fun, and not too bad for the kids to help with!

Heck, they'd just enjoy watching you pour the mix into the waffle maker...probably!

Waffle Brownies

1 cube butter or margarine

7 tbsp. cocoa

4 slightly beaten eggs

1 tsp. vanilla

1 1/2 cups sugar

2 cups flour

1/2 tsp. salt

Preheat waffle iron...

In a large, microwave safe bowl, melt butter.

Add cocoa, and combine well.

Then add the slightly beaten eggs and vanilla.

Mix well.

Then add the flour, sugar and salt.

Batter will be thick.

Drop by spoonfulls onto hot waffle iron.

If you need to grease your iron, please do so.

Cook for 1 minute.

and when I say 1 minute, I mean 1 minute.

Make sure that the waffle iron comes to temperature again!

You know me, I like to have them bite size, so I did some small spoonfulls.

And I would suggest a regular waffle iron, not the belgium waffle iron.

Now for the chocolate frosting!

1 stick softened butter

3 to 4 cups powdered sugar

1 tsp vanilla

3 tbsp cocoa

and milk for consistency

Mix ingredients in a small bowl, adding milk as needed.

Make sure you don't get the frosting too runny.

Frost cooled brownies.

Serve!

Don't they look cute?

Triple Fudge Brownies

My sister in law Jennie called me and told me

that I needed to make this recipe that was going to be featured

on a local tv show.

So, I recorded the show.

It was on about a month ago.

I really REGRET not making these sooner.

OH.MY.GOSH!

They are SO good!

So, thank you to Good Things Utah and Chef Shamy for this recipe.

If any of you are wanting a major chocolate overload,

Or if any of you are wanting to eat the BEST BROWNIES EVER!

Give this one a try.

Triple Fudge Brownies

2/3 lb butter

6 pieces semi-sweet chocolate baking bar

4 eggs

2 tbsp. vanilla

2 cups sugar

1 1/2 cups flour

1 tsp. salt

2 tbsp. cocoa

2 cups mini chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350*

(This recipe is for a 9x13 size pan. If you want a 9x9, you will want to half this)

In a microwave proof bowl, melt the butter and chocolate bar for 3 minutes,

in 1 minute increments, stirring inbetween.

In a seperate bowl, combine the vanilla, sugar and eggs.

Once chocolate has melted and is combined, add to the egg mixture.

Make sure to add it slowly, so not to cook the eggs!
Once combined, add the flour, cocoa and salt.
Only mix until all the ingredients are "wet".

Add 1 cup of the mini chocolate chips.

Line the pan with foil.

Grease the foil and coat with baking cocoa.

Pour the browning mixture into baking pan and top with the remaining cup of chocolate chips.

Bake for 30 minutes.

This picture just does NOT do it justice.

It does look like they are still really not cooked enough.

This picture was also taken while the brownies were still warm.

Once they had set for a good couple of hours, they were PERFECT!

So much chocolate and so much goodness.

I had a huge pan and so I was able to give a lot away,

and I got nothing but good reports back on this one!

The only suggestion that I got was to serve it with ice cream.

So, grab a spoonfull of ice cream and ENJOY!