The Captain and I have talked a lot about Celine Dion lately. In fact, I think I owe a blog to some of the conversations we've had about Celine Dion. The point is, whether or not you like her, how she looks, or her music, you have to admit: That girl can SING. She is truly a genuinely, flawlessly, amazing singer.
Over the course of my young life, I have had my "fool proof" recipe for brownies. My family has encouraged me to enter them into the State Fair, but I didn't feel like they were "perfect" enough. They lacked the "shazam".
Last Saturday I was attending the baptism for our friend's son, TDV. I decided in the morning that it would only bring joy to have an extra pan of brownies. So I whipped out my usual fool-proof recipe, and discovered I was out of shortening! Even my food storage was lacking shortening! Desperate, and out of time, I grabbed 2 sticks of butter, and replaced the shortening 1:1.
After baking, terrified I was going to poison TDV's friends and family, I tried a square, to ensure I wasn't about to go down in history as the "woman who makes brownie looking bricks". They were a-MA-zing. Let me rephrase... they were AMAZING! They had SHAZAM! They had reached perfection! Angels were singing! *I* was singing!
I had to leave the baptism early, but as I understand, a riot broke out over the brownies, those left with crumbs cried, and several have asked for the recipe. I'm not one to hoard, so here it is. All I ask is that you wait until after 2011's State Fair to submit them to the State Fair yourself. haha.
Cocoa Brownies1/2 c softened BUTTER (who knew?)
2 eggs
1 c sugar
1 tsp vanilla
2/3 c flour
1/2 c cocoa
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 c optional chopped walnuts
Heat oven to 350. Mix softened butter, sugar, eggs, and vanilla until well blended. Blend dry ingredients together (no need to sift unless it's hand ground flour). Mix together. Spread in a well-greased 8x8 pan. For 9x13, you need to double the recipe. Bake about 30 minutes.
The Captain had heard of the ruckus, and asked me to reproduce a pan, so I did. And last night another pan... To which he declared "These are 'Celine Dion Good'!" Which, as you now know means "Even if you don't like brownies, you have to confess they are amazing!" My husband who doesn't like sweets has eaten over half of the pan.
What, in your world, would you consider "Celine Dion Good"?
Well done! Great post. I love your creative approach to everything.
ReplyDelete"Is there anything better than butter? Think it over, any time you taste something that's delicious beyond imagining and you say 'what's in this?' the answer is always going to be butter. The day there is a meteorite rushing toward Earth and we have thirty days to live, I am going to spend it eating butter. Here is my final word on the subject, you can never have too much butter."
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing. My family has been wanting me to find a good recipe for brownies. I will have to try them. Hope you have a good week.
ReplyDeleteJust fixed these tonight. Scrumptious!!
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad, Heather! I made them last night too. Heavenly! Yay for mistakes!
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