Yesterday was, in addition to the last of the 11 days I worked straight, a birthday celebration for Jake's aunt and cousin. My mother-in-law called and asked if I could please make a cake and another dessert of my choice.
Coming off of three hours sleep, and tending to both Emma and her 9 month old cousin Nay-Nay (Nathan) I decided brownies were the way to go. Easy, impossible to mess up, and all with ingredients I knew I already had.
The first batch is a fudge style brownie (made with melted semi-sweet chocolate), and topped with a home made caramel and pecans. My brother-in-law is a big turtle fan, so I knew that these would go over well.
The second batch, may possibly be the best brownies I've ever made. These are more cake-style, though quite moist (made with cocoa). I topped them with coconut, pecans, butter, brown sugar and salt (salty sweet HELLO). Although it sounds a little bit like German chocolate cake, it's really not. I baked the brownies with the topping so it got gloriously crunchy.
Because I was smart enough to make a double batch of each, I have just enough left over to take to book club tonight.
The aforementioned cake was banana cream, and quiet yummy, but it was gone before I could locate a camera!
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