Two days after the snow fell it still had not melted, instead solidifying in to an icy mess that made driving difficult and playing outside both uncomfortable and a tad bit dangerous. With Sophia coming over and Henry already wired from days inside, I decided to do the next least healthy thing to laying around watching television: make brownies. So, with a little help from Alton Brown, we turned the oven on to 300...
Sifted out 1 1/4 cups of cocoa powder...
Half a cup of flour...
One cup of sugar...
One cup of brown sugar, which is a considerable pain to sift...
Five eggs from the backyard chickens. The recipe only called for four, but the
Ameraucana eggs are a tiny bit smaller than grocery store eggs, and one more egg will make anything a little better...
Those go in the mixer with half a pound of butter, two teaspoons of vanilla, half a teaspoon of salt...
Mix in the cocoa/flour mix and two types of sugars...
Give this to the kids to tide them over...
Scrape it in a pan and throw it in the oven for forty-five minutes or so...
No photos were taken of the finished brownies.
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