Well I've had a few more (successful) baking adventures. I took a few pictures, wrote down a few recipes, played some practical jokes with the results, and I thought I'd blog about them all in one post. The first was a blueberry pie for the fourth of July..which was actually made and eaten on the third.. but that's beside the point. I got the crust recipe from use real butter, which is a blog that has been my go-to for baking recipes since the blogger lives in the rockies!
As soon as I made the crust and put it in the fridge to chill, my replacement coffee maker arrived with this "Gizmo" ..
What happened was I bought a coffee maker off of craigs list when I first arrived in Boulder. However, when I was looking for an instruction manual online, I found that the model I bought was recalled..something about a fire hazard...BUT I could go through a process and end up with a new, non-threatening coffee maker PLUS this Black and Decker 3 in 1 Gizmo beater wisker..thing. The new coffee maker is great. This new gizmo is alright, but since I don't have my kitchen aid mixer, I am THRILLED. Anyways, here's the rest of the blueberry pie pictures. The filling had no real recipe, just frozen blueberries, sugar, cornstarch, and cinnamon.
Since it was the fourth..er..third of July, I couldn't just do a lattice or something plain and while it didn't turn out perfectly, I think I got the point across. I brought it over to Britt's place for a grill out where we had her delicious spinach and artichoke dip and red, white and blue layered drinks that (for the most part) ended up purple. yum. It was a great Third of July, especially considering the torrential downpour and thunderstorms on the Fourth.
In between the pie and these next brownies I made my own birthday cake (chocolate and banana bread cake with chocolate chips). I took it to work where it was eaten before I could take pictures. But more importantly, I recently finally succeeded in making brownies! And here's the one picture I took of these delicious, fudgy, rich brownies:
The Recipe (altered for high-altitude from My Baking Addiction's post of Pamela Anderson's recipe from "The Perfect Recipe")
2/3 cup whole-wheat flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking powder
2 oz. unsweetened chocolate
4 oz. semisweet chocolate
9 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 1/8 cup sugar
2 tsp vanilla
3 eggs
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
2. Whisk flour, salt, and baking powder in a small bowl and set aside. Cover an 8-inch baking pan with aluminum foil and grease ( I used a random baking pan that was definitely not an 8-inch square but worked all the same).
3. Melt chocolates and butter in a double boiler (or a pan over a pot of simmering water). Remove from heat; whisk in sugar and vanilla. Whisk in eggs, one at a time, fully incorporating each one before adding the next. Continue to whisk until mixture is completely smooth and glossy. Add dry ingredients, whisk until just incorporated.
4. Pour batter into prepared pan; bake until a toothpick comes out with wet crumbs (38-40 minutes).
5. Cool brownies in pan on a wire rack for five minutes. Pull brownies from the pan using the foil and let them completely cool on the wire rack (at least 3 hours, HAH!).
The website says this makes 16 brownies. I'll trust that but since I made it in a different sized pan and never cut them in squares, I wouldn't know.
Optional 6th step: after consuming half of the pan yourself before they ever come close to cooling, shape into "turds" and place on a friend's driveway.
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