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Best Brownies Ever

11/15/2011 by Lara • Comment

Recipe: Sweet Lydia's Best Brownies Ever
Total time: 10 minutes (plus brownie baking time)
Ease: easy
Unusual ingredients: peanut butter, caramel or Nutella, Sweet Lydia's Marshmallows

Brownies. Peanut butter. (Or Nutella. Or caramel.) One toasted homemade gooey marshmallow to top it all off. Can life get better? I submit that it cannot!

This is another of the amazing recipes from Sweet Lydia’s Marshmallow Guide. Lydia is a friend of mine, and I was lucky enough to do the pictures and taste test all of the recipes for it! All of the recipes in the cookbooklet use a bag of her homemade marshmallows. This one is easily one of my favorites, because holy moly, when you cut into the brownie you’ll be greeted with your choice of peanut butter, Nutella, or caramel!

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Mocha brownies

03/18/2011 by Lara • 6 Comments

Recipe: Martha Stewart's Mocha Brownies
Total time: 3.5 hours
Ease: Beginner
Unusual ingredients: instant espresso powder, unsweetened cocoa powder

On the hunt for caffeinated treats, I came across these mocha brownies; perfect for helping coworkers power through a late night launch!

These are very straightforward, with the exception of one step: the parchment. I absolutely see the need for parchment (the brownies were very hard to get out). But next time, I’ll definitely need to cut my parchment down to size. The wrinkles around the corners where the parchment folded up created uneven edges:

Still beautiful, and definitely still edible, just a little more frustrating than I was bargaining for!
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