{"id":577,"date":"2011-10-09T11:29:57","date_gmt":"2011-10-09T11:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/?p=577"},"modified":"2011-10-10T04:22:26","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T04:22:26","slug":"brownies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/?p=577","title":{"rendered":"Brownies"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I am feeling particularly lazy but need Lunchbox treats for the week I like to whip up a batch of Brownies. They are so easy to make and are a sure hit…the challenge will be to make them last for the week!<\/p>\n

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1 1\/3 cup Flour<\/div>\n
1 teaspoon Baking Powder<\/div>\n
1\/2 teaspoon Salt<\/div>\n
1 cup Butter<\/div>\n
1 cup Cocoa<\/div>\n
2 cups Sugar<\/div>\n
4 Eggs, slightly beaten<\/div>\n
1 1\/2 teaspoons Vanilla<\/div>\n
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Preheat oven to 350F.<\/div>\n
Lightly spray a 9x13inch pan with vegetable oil spray or line a mini muffin tin with muffin liners.<\/div>\n
In small mixing bowl, combine flour, salt and baking powder.<\/div>\n
In medium size saucepan, melt butter over low to medium heat.<\/div>\n
Add sugar to melted butter and stir for a minute.<\/div>\n
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Remove from heat and stir in cocoa. Mix well, until no lumps remain.<\/div>\n
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Add eggs, one at a time and stirring well after each addition.<\/div>\n
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Stir in Vanilla.<\/div>\n
Pour in dry ingredients and carefully stir in until all the flour is incorporated then stir vigorously for 2 – 3 minutes.<\/div>\n
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Pour batter into prepared 9×13 or use a 2ounce Pampered Chef Scoop to portion into 24 mini muffin cups.<\/div>\n
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Bake in preheated 350F oven for 25 – 30 minutes, or until pick inserted in centre comes out clean. Two Bite Brownies for 16 – 20 minutes.<\/div>\n
*As an alternative to Fudgy Cocoa Frosting, at this point you may break a family size Chocolate bar into bits, sprinkle on top of the warm brownies and return the pan to the turned off oven. Leave for a few minutes. Remove from oven and gently spread melty chocolate over the surface of the brownies. I like Fruit and Nut bar<\/div>\n
Remove from oven and cool completely on wire rack.<\/div>\n
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Frost with:<\/div>\n
\u00a0Fudgy Cocoa Frosting<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
3 Tablespoons melted Butter<\/div>\n
1\/4 cup Cocoa<\/div>\n
1\/2 teaspoon Vanilla<\/div>\n
splash of strong brewed Coffee<\/div>\n
2 cups Icing Sugar<\/div>\n
Add cocoa to melted butter and stir until no lumps remain. Stir in vanilla, coffee and 1 cup of icing sugar stirring well.<\/div>\n
Add second cup of icing sugar, stirring until no lumps remain then beating for 2 minutes.<\/div>\n
Spread on cooled Brownies.\n<\/div>\n
Reduced Fat Brownies:<\/strong><\/div>\n
Substitute 1\/2 cup butter and 1\/2 cup unsweetened applesauce for the cup of butter.<\/div>\n
Substitute 1\/3 cup of the flour with Whole Wheat Flour.\n<\/div>\n
Chocolate Chunk and Fruit Brownies:<\/strong><\/div>\n
To Reduced Fat Brownies add:<\/div>\n
1 cup Sultanas<\/div>\n
1 cup Chocolate Chunks<\/div>\n
Stir the Fruit and Chocolate in with the dry ingredients.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I am feeling particularly lazy but need Lunchbox treats for the week I like to whip up a batch of Brownies. They are so easy to make and are a sure hit…the challenge will be to make them last for the week! 1 1\/3 cup Flour 1 teaspoon Baking Powder 1\/2 teaspoon Salt 1 … Continue reading Brownies<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-squares-and-bars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":597,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions\/597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}