Tonight, while my son was at his hockey game with my husband I got to do something that used to provide me with hours of continuous bliss. I got out my measuring cups, a big bowl, a wooden spoon, and started baking.
I know that since I love to bake, and I have a child, I should have spent the last 8 years building fond baking memories with my son. Well, I didn't. Baking was something I enjoyed doing during my limited free time as a teenager to relax. Once my son was old enough to stand on a stool to help, I tried to be "that mom". The one who has an entire photo album filled with pictures of her and her kids laughing with flour smeared on their cheeks and batter on their fingers. The problem was that I had no patience waiting for Aydan to learn to crack an egg properly, and I sure as hell did not find it relaxing cleaning it up after he smashed said egg into the counter. It drove me nuts watching him spoon flour into the measuring cup while spilling it EVERYWHERE. So, baking sessions with Aydan usually ended with both of us in tears in seperate rooms and the kitchen looking like a disaster zone.
Tonight, since I was all alone, I decided to bake up my favourite treats that I haven't made since some time last July. They're surprisingly easy to make, but look like they've taken hours of work. I use them to impress the other Mormon women at my church who really do spend hours every day in their kitchens.
Don't they look delicious?
Anyone who would like to try making them can use this recipe!
1/2 cup butter
2 oz white baking chocolate square (chopped)
2 eggs
2/3 cups sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup all purpose flour
1/3 cup ground almonds (or 1/2 cup chopped)
1/2 tsp baking powder
dash salt
1 cup fresh raspberries (not frozen)
4 oz melted white chocolate squares
Line 8x8 metal pan with foil. Grease foil and set aside.
Melt butter and chocolate in saucepan until smooth. Remove from heat and add eggs, sugar & vanilla. Mix with a wooden spoon. Add flour, almonds, baking powder, and salt.
Spread batter in the prepared pan and sprinkle with raspberries.
Bake at 350 for 30 to 35 minutes until golden. Cool completely in pan on a wire rack. Using foil, lift brownies from pan.
Cut into bars and drizzle with melted white chocolate.
They certainly got the seal of approval from my little hockey superstar!
Cute "Aydan approval" pic! They look yummy. I can't even make the Pilsbury ones with snowmen on them that 4-year-olds make!
ReplyDeleteOK so I am sitting on my couch in my apartment waiting for my groceries to be delivered (yea I know, pretty lazy) but I come across the picture of these brownies and I am starving and thinking about the 7 cookies I ate after lunch today and how I would like 7 more and these brownies look so tasty and... where the heck are my groceries dangit?!
ReplyDeleteYou can have your groceries delivered???!!! Where do you live that the grocery stores do that? I thought I was lucky that sometimes the 15 year old standing at the end of the checkout doesn't put my eggs underneath 8 cans of chunky beef soup....
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