Recipes – Page 3

Recipe Wednesday – One Bowl Brownies

I had to make a decision between another recipe and this one, and decided on this one because, well, chocolate. This is an easy, one bowl mix that I was able to mix up in less than fifteen minutes. Depending on the type of chocolate you use, this recipe can be a rich semi-sweet fudgy brownie, or a sweeter, more milk chocolate taste.

Whatever chocolate you want to use, enjoy these quick brownies.

Ingredients

9 ounces of chocolate – (the darker the chocolate, the richer the taste) I used semi-sweet chocolate chips
4 ounces of salted butter (1 stick)
1 cup sugar
1 cup all purpose flour
2 large eggs and 1 yolk
1 tsp vanilla

1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F.

2. Grease a 8 x 8 inch pan. (Or line it with parchment paper

3. Using a glass bowl (microwave safe), melt th butter and chocolate in 30 second shifts. I find that if I cut the butter into tablespoons and use chocolate chips, I only need to do 2-30 second rounds with a stir in-between. When the bowl comes out for the second time, stir, stir, stir….the residual heat will melt the chocolate.

4. Add sugar and stir, stir, stir. Add eggs, yolk and then your flour. Stir the mixture until it is just combine. Do not over mix your batter.

5. Pour this lovely, chocolate-laden batter into your greased pan and back for 25-30 minutes.

6. Remove from oven and let the brownies cool for at least 30 min, then cut as desired.

I promise, you will love these!!!

Dahlia

Blogtoberfest – Vampire Sangria

Hello again! So glad to see y’all along with me for the ride of 31 days of Halloween blogging, or, as I call it……BLOGTOBERFEST……..

Today’s recipe is not a mocktail, but a straight up liquor fest. It was a choice between this and chocolate martinis. I chose this because it looks like fruit punch. (What, me drinking? Nah, this is fruit punch.) And I love sangria.

You can find the basic recipe here, but I added my own twists.

Prep Time: 5 minutes

Total Time: 5 minutes

Ingredients:

1 (750 ml bottle of red wine (Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Rioja reds, Zinfandel, Shiraz)
1 Lemon cut into wedges
1 Orange cut into wedges
Strawberry or Kiwi slices
3 Tbsp sugar
2 shots brandy
1 shot gin
2 cups ginger ale or club soda

Preparation:

Pour wine in the pitcher and squeeze the juice wedges from the lemon and orange into the wine. Toss in the fruit wedges (leaving out seeds if possible) and add sugar and brandy. Chill overnight. Add ginger ale or club soda just before serving.

If you’d like to serve right away, use chilled red wine and serve over lots of ice.

Blogtoberfest – Mulled Hard Cider

You can always count on me to be the liquor to your parties. That was me with the Long Island Iced Tea and the Vampire Sangria. So, I’m back with hard mulled cider. Plain cider is nice, but adding a kick is even nicer. Prepare to enjoy.

Ingredients

2 quarts apple cider
Dried apple slices
Thinly sliced orange
1/2 cup dark brown sugar
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/8 tsp nutmeg (pinch)
1 cup dark rum
cinnamon sticks for stirrin’

In a large pot, combine all ingredients except the rum and bring to a simmer over low heat. Allow mixture to remain for about ten minutes. Remove from the heat, add the rum. Serve in mugs with a cinnamon stick and enjoy.

If you want to make ahead, put the mixture in a slow-cooker on “keep warm” and add the rum just before serving.