Such a big Bills win was worthy of not one, but 2 treats. Plus not everyone loves peanut butter, so i present an alternative – fudgy brownies with chocolate chips.
Ingredients list
10 tbs butter
1 1/4 cups sugar
3/4 cup plus 2 tbs unsweetened baking cocoa
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup flour
1 cup chocolate chips
Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line an 8×8 pan with tin foil and spray with baking spray. In a microwave safe bowl, melted butter, sugar and cocoa for 45 seconds. Stir smooth. Blend in eggs and vanilla. Add flour. Mix in chips. Evenly spread into prepared pan. Bake 20 minutes (toothpick inserted in center comes out with a few moist crumbs) cool completely. Store in covered container.
Today’s Friday football treats is a request from my coworker, Eric, who’s celebrating a birthday today. They are a version of Little Debbie brownies, which I loved as a child. These even have rainbow chips on top (shout out to Price Rite for having them)
I made these amid a crazy game three of the ALCS between the Yankees and Guardians. What a nutty last few innings – the Judge and Stanton home runs. The Noel and Fry home runs. Rob and I are Yankees fans (but he is more invested than me). He was quite mad afterwards and broke into hot brownies (which I warned him against). He mangled them, as you can see below.
Remember to scoop your flour and baking cocoa from your containers into measuring cups so you get the right amount. Also, preheat your oven for 20 minutes so it cycles to the right temp. If you don’t have milk chocolate chips, you can use all semisweet for the ganache.
Brownies ingredients list
2 1/2 sticks of butter, melted
2 cups sugar
2/3 cup brown sugar, packed into measuring cup
1 3/4 cups unsweetened baking cocoa
2 tsp vanilla
4 eggs
2 yolks
2 tbs corn syrup
1 1/3 cups flour
2 tbs cornstarch
1/2 tsp salt
Directions – preheat oven to 350 degre3s. Line a 9×13 cake pan with parchment paper and spray with baking spray. In a bowl, mix butter, sugar, brown sugar, and baking cocoa. Add eggs, one at a time, yolks, corn syrup and vanilla. Blend in dry ingredients. Mixture will be very thick. Evenly spread into pan. Bake 30 to 40 minutes (until toothpick comes out with a few moist crumbs). Cool completely.
Ganache ingredients
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
1/2 cup milk chocolate chips
1/2 cup heavy cream
Directions – in one microwave safe bowl, heat chips for 1 minutes. In another microwave safe bowl, heat cream for one minute. Combine cream and chips. Stir smooth. Let sit 5 minutes. Spread on cooled brownies and sprinkle with rainbow chips or m&ms
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These Bills gameday treats for week 3, a request from Rob- brownies. I grabbed the wrong size pan (8×8) instead of what my recipe indicated (9×9), so these are thicker and took a bit longer to bake. Oops! 🙂 I will have the directions for the 9×9 pan in this recipe.
Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount. Also preheat your oven so it cycles to the right temp.
Ingredients list
12 tbs butter
1 1/2 cups dark chocolate chips
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
4 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup flour
1 cup chocolate chips
Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a 9×9 pan with tin foil and spray with baking spray. In a microwave safe bowl, melt butter and chips in 45 second increments until you can stir smooth. Add brown sugar and sugar. Mix in eggs, one at a time, and vanilla. Fold in flour and salt. Blend in chips. Evenly spread into prepared pan. Bake 25 to 30 minutes (toothpick inserted in center comes out with a few moist crumbs). Sprinkle warm brownies with powdered sugar. Cool completely. Cut and store in covered container.
Since the Bills win over the Dolphins ended after 11 pm, there was no time to make victory treats. I needed to go to bed because I had a 430 am wakeup to work out! Oh, and I do not believe in premature baking of the victory treats. They can not be made until the victory is complete. The football gods must not be angered. So these will be brought in Monday. Dark chocolate brownies, requested by Rob.
Couple of notes – these bake at 325, lower than most brownie recipes. Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the correct amount.
Ingredients list
1 1/3 cups dark chocolate chips
1 cup sugar
1/3 cup butter
2 tbs water
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
3/4 cup flour (scooped from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount)
1 tsp salt
Additional 1/2 cup chocolate chips (opt)
Directions
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Line an 8×8 square pan with tin foil and spray with baking spray. Set aside. In a microwave safe bowl, heat in 45 second increments – – 1 1/3 cups dark chocolate chips, butter, sugar and water until you can stir mixture smooth. Add eggs, one at a time, then vanilla. Blend in dry ingredients. Mix in additional chips, if using. Evenly spread into prepared pan. Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out with a few moist crumbs. Cool completely. Cut and store in covered container.
Thanks so much for stopping by today. I wish you peace, love and joy today. Remember to be kind. We are all fighting a battle and some are more difficult than others.
I could not bring in just one treat for a Bills victory Monday tomorrow. So Rob suggested black cocoa brownies with peanut butter chips and black cocoa frosting. Black cocoa is what makes oreos taste like oreos. I found some on Amazon that I like to use. Of course, my hershey’s classic is my standby/old faithful, but the black cocoa is nice to use once in a while.
Ingredients list
1/2 cup butter, melted
1 /2 cup sugar
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup corn syrup or honey
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup flour (scooped from your bag into your measuring cup)
1/3 cup black cocoa
1 cup peanut butter chips
Directions – preheat oven to 350. Line an 8×8 or 9×9 baking pan with tin foil and spray with baking spray. Set aside. In a bowl, combine butter, sugar, brown sugar and corn syrup/honey. Add eggs and vanilla. Blend in flour and black cocoa. Fold in chips. Evenly spread into prepared pan. Bake 13 to 17 minutes (toothpick inserted in center comes out with a few moist crumbs). Immediately start prepping frosting.
Frosting ingredients
3 tbs butter softened
3 tbs black cocoa
1 tsp corn syrup or honey
1 tsp vanilla
3 to 6 tsp milk
1 cup powdered sugar
Directions – in a bowl, blend butter and cocoa. Add vanilla and corn syrup/honey. Mix in powdered sugar. Blend in enough milk to get the consistency you want. Frost warm brownies. Let cool completely. Cut and store in covered container.
I had some leftover hostess fluff filling and hostess squiggle dough after making Rob’s hostess cupcake birthday cake, so I decided to use it by making some Suzy q brownies. You can use whatever brownie recipe you want (or peruse my blog for some) or use a mix.
For my ESPN Radio friends laboring tomorrow on Labor Day, these are for you
Ingredients list
1 brownie recipe baked in a 9×13 pan and cooled
Topping ingredients
Milk chocolate chips
1 tbs vegetable oil
Filling ingredients
1/4 cup butter, softened
1 cup marshmallow fluff
2-3 cups powdered sugar
Water or milk
Squiggle ingredients
1/4 cup butter softened
1 -2 cups powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla
Water or milk
Directions – cut cooled brownies into squares and set aside. In a microwave safe bowl, microwave chocolate chips and vegetable oil in 30 second increments until you can stir smooth. Set aside while you make the filling.
For filling – in a bowl, cream butter and fluff, blend in powdered sugar. Add milk or water, a tsp at a time until you get the consistency you want. Spread between 2 cooled brownie squares. Top with melted chocolate chips. Let chocolate harden up for an hour.
For squiggle – in a bowl, combine butter, powdered sugar,and vanilla. Add water or milk, a tsp at a time to get the consistency you want. Scoop into a zip lock baggie and cut out a corner. Squiggle on top of hardened chocolate. Store in covered container.
I have not done as much baking this summer because it has been too hot and humid. No, I do not want ten below zero and two feet of snow, but temps near 90 a dew point close to 70 or above is not great either. Anyways……
Rob asked for brownies so instead of using just a mix. I swapped out the water for ice cream and added some hot fudge (a neat addition to chocolate baked good, as long as you don’t overdo it). He ate one and I brought the rest to work today.
If you have time, let the hot fudge warm to room temp bc it is easier to mix in. Do not microwave or heat it up another way. You can use any ice cream flavor you want. I used cookies n cream for these.
Ingredients
1 brownie mix
2 eggs
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 cup ice cream (use any flavor you want)
1/4 cup hot fudge (room temp, if possible)
Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a 9×13 pan with tin foil and spray with baking spray. In a bowl, combine brownie mix, eggs and foil. Blend in hot fudge then ice cream. It may take a while to mix in ice cream. Evenly spread in pan. Bake 22 to 28 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out with a few moist crumbs. Cool completely. Store in covered container.
What’s better a batch of Blondies/Chocolate Chip cookie bars? A sheet pan batch! Because a sheet pan recipe makes so much more. And if you are going to bake when it’s 100 degrees and humid, you may as well make it worth your while!
Also I wonder what makes a treat a blondie as opposed to chocolate chip? Perhaps melted butter or extra brown sugar.
Ingredients list
1 cup butter, melted and cooled 15 minutes
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 yolks
2 tbs milk/water
3 1/2 cups flour (scooped from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount)
1 tbs cornstarch
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
2 cups chocolate chips
Directions – preheat oven to 325 degrees. Line a cookie sheet (13×18 inches) with parchment paper and spray with baking spray. In a bowl, combine melted butter, sugar and brown sugar. Add eggs, yolks, vanilla and milk. Mix in dry ingredients. Fold in chips. Evenly press into prepared pan. Bake 20 to 25 minutes, until lightly golden on top. Be careful not to overbake or they will dry out. If you feel they are undercooked, just let them cool completley and pop them in your fridge for a while to firm them up.
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A while back, I bought some hot cocoa packets to bake with. I never really used them, so I thought tonight I would use some of them up. So I made these hot cocoa brownies. Very easy to make. I put some mini marshmallow bits in them and topped them with milk chocolate chips as soon as they came out of the oven.
Remember to scoop your flour from you flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount.
Ingredients
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup hot cocoa mix
1 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 cup mini marshmallow bits
1 cup milk chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line an 8×8 pan with tin foil. Spray with baking spray. In a bowl, combine butter and sugar. Add eggs and vanilla. Fold in dry ingredients then marshmallow bits. Spread evenly into prepared pan. Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until toothpick comes out with moist crumbs. Upon removing from oven, Sprinkle with chips. Cool completely. Cut and store in covered container.
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A little story behind why I made this cake. Rob got himself a piece of flourless chocolate and put it in the fridge. I was reorganizing, and it plopped onto the floor. To make good, I made a one layer cake. So simple to make! Very chocolately!
Ingredients list
1/2 cup butter
1 cup dark chocolate chips
3/4 cup sugar
3 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup baking cocoa (scooped from container into your measuring cup so you get the right amount.
Directions – preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line only the bottom of a round cake pan with parchment paper and spray with Pam. In a microwave safe bowl, melt butter and chocolate chips in 30 second increments until you can stir smooth. Add sugar. Blend in eggs, one at a time. Mix in vanilla. Blend in cocoa. Spread evenly into pan. Bake 25 minutes, no longer. Cool ten minutes. Flip over onto serving plate. Cool completely. Store in covered container.
cookies by christine 