Category Archives: Brownies

I remember one of the first times, I had made brownies for my boyfriend (now husband) and his then roommate. I was visiting and decided to give these guys a nice home cooked meal. They both were very willing to help. I set one, helping with the entrée and the other, helping with dessert. That day, I was making brownies. I had just recently come back from Belize (I was living there for 8 months, while in medical school) and this recipe was given to me, by one of my Belizean neighbors. So, as I was looking over my ingredient list, the first thing, my husband’s roommate asks me is “So, where is the brownie mix box?” Box Mix?! I remembered the surprise on his face, when I told him, we were making the brownies from scratch. Ahh memories. This recipe, is an adapted version of that brownie recipe.

Ingredients For Brownies:

3/4 cup of cocoa powder

1 teaspoon of baking soda

2/3 cup of vegetable oil

1/2 cup of boiling water

1 1/2 cups of sugar

1 1/2 cups of flour

1 teaspoon of salt

2 eggs

10 oreo cookies, crumbled

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350F
2. Combine cocoa powder, baking soda and vegetable oil.
3. Stir in boiling water (mixture with thicken)
4. Stir in remaining ingredients
5. Pour into a lightly greased baking pan
6. Bake for 35 minutes
7. Allow brownies to cool

These brownies are good to go now, but if you want to get fancy:

Fresh Buttercream

2 tablespoons of butter, softened

3/4 cup + 2 tablespoons of confectioner’s sugar

1/2 teaspoon of vanilla extract

milk

Directions:

1. Combine butter, sugar and vanilla extract
2. Add just enough milk to allow the frosting to be piped
3. Place a sandwich bag in a glass, with a piping tip at one corner and the open sides folded over glass
4. Fill bag with frosting and remove air from bag and seal
5. Pipe decoration

I used a biscuit cutter to cut out my brownies and decorated it with buttercream and an oreo.

This recipe is featured:

As part of Sweet For Saturday, on Lisa’s Sweet As Sugar Cookies Blog:

As part of Sweet Tooth Friday, on Alli’n Son’s Parenting and Life With a Side of Chocolate