Happy Birthday Sweet Boy! Peanut Butter Oreo Brownies!!

 

Happy Birthday Robert

 

This Sunday, April 28th, will be my son's 20th birthday.  It seems like just a few months ago he was the kid in the green pj's running around with his little brother (the one in the floppy onsie with the hockey stick).  How does this tie in to Peanut Butter Oreo Brownies or Slutty Brownies as he says they're called.

 

Robert has never been a fan of cake and icing (still find it hard to believe I gave birth to a child that isn't a fan of cake and icing...) but he is a fan of peanut butter.  Actually peanut butter has been his staple lunch for most of his child hood.  So mix in a little peanut butter with the Oreo's and pour over a nice brownie batter and you have his requested dessert along with an ice cream cake to celebrate the transition from the teens years to the 'tees'.  You know, no more sevenTEEN, eightTEEN, nineTEEN....now you get to be taken more seriously, well as serious as we will take a twenTEE year old.

 

The recipe Rob found called for an Oreo cookie, a blob of peanut butter, another Oreo on top of that and then brownie batter poured on top.  I thought just 1 Oreo topped with a blob of peanut butter and then topped with the Baker's Chocolate One Bowl Brownie batter (easy and yummy and no mixer required).  Bake in paper lined individual muffin tins and yum a little over the top dessert in a nice portion controlled size.  Add a scoop of ice cream to this and how great would that be.

 

Oreo's topped with peanut butter

With One Bowl Brownie batter on top

 

Finished...see the little bubbles of hot peanut butter oozing out of the top...wait until they cool before enjoying.

 

Oh, by the way this recipe is not for the faint of heart.  Just make it and don't think about it.  Remember it is all in the portion control.

 

Baker's One Bowl Chocolate Brownies

 

Preheat oven to 350F.  Foil line and spray a 13 x 9 inch pan.  Have foil overhand on edges for easy pickup.

 

3/4 cup butter

4 squares Baker's unsweetend chocolate

2 cups sugar

3 eggs

1 cup flour

1 tsp vanilla

Add in's - 1/2 cup chopped peanuts or pecans or other nuts or white chocolate chips

 

In microwave safe bowl melt butter with chocolate and stir until chocolate is smooth; about 2 minutes.  Add in the sugar and mix well then add in the eggs one at a time mixing well after each.  Now add in the vanilla and mix.  Now add in the flour and your add ins.  Stir a few more times and voila! you are done.

 

Spead evenly in prepared pan and bake for about 25 minutes.  Do not overbake.  I prefer my brownies a little underdone to overdone as a moist brownie is the best.

 

Cut them up into small squares when they are cool and layer them with ice cream and finish off with a little whip cream and a few sprinkles.

 

I think you will find these sweet enuf for the sweet tooth in your family.  Happy baking.

 



Sugar Cookies-Better and Better

I seem to be on a bit of a roll with the themed sugar cookies.  Today's post is for a better sugar cookie recipe that is even tastier than the last one. 

I guess I will have to keep mixing, cutting, baking, icing and eating to find 'my' ultimate sugar cookies!  Take a look at these cuties....

These 'Onsie's' are covered with fondant and outlined in royal icing.  They taste delicious and will look cute on a dessert table, tray or even individually wrapped in clear bags.

O.K. I must confess the t.v. is keeping me company while I write this and 'Ready For Love' is the new reality t.v. show with 3 super handsome, successful guys choosing from many women selected by 3 of the world's, YES THE WORLD's, best matchmaker's.  I guess it does kinda fit....finding love, making babies, babies needs onsie's, onsie cookies are for a baby shower....it must be my subconscious leading me to this new reality crap t.v. not JUST my addiction to reality t.v.  Ahhh, I feel better about watching it now!

Back to the cookies...below is the sugar cookie recipe I used.  I did not chill it as directed because I didn't have the time but I would suggest chilling the portion of dough you are not working with while you roll out and cut the cookies from your first portion of dough.  I was able to get about 24 cookies out of this batch using the approx. 4" cutter.  If using a smaller cutter you will obviously get additional cookies.

Sugar Cookies:

5 1/2 cups of flour
1 Tbsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
2 cups unsalted butter, room temperature
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract

Method:
Preheat oven to 350F.

In large mixer, cream butter and sugar, until smooth.  Add eggs and vanilla to butter mixture and beat well.

In medium bowl mix together the flour, baking powder and salt.

Slowly add the dry ingredients to the butter mixture in about 3-4 additions and mix after each until combined.  Do not overmix.

Chill in refrigerator for about 30 minutes.  (I just chilled the dough I wasn't currently working with BUT do know if the dough gets too warm it will be difficult to work with and spread too much while baking).

Roll out dough onto floured surface, to 1/4-inch thickness, and cut with cookie cutters and bake on parchment lined sheets for about 8-12 minutes.  Edges should just be golden not brown.

Let cool.

These cookies are yummy just as is but for this shower I coloured up some white fondant and used the same cookie cutter to cut out the shape and adhered it to the cookie with a little water.  I then mixed up some Royal Icing and outlined the cookies for a little more oomph.  Enjoy!