Not Your Mamas Brownies Recipes

NOT YOUR MAMA'S SEVEN-LAYER BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. Pulse cookies in food processor until finely chopped. Combine crumbs and melted butter; press onto bottom of greased, foil-lined 13x9-in. baking pan. Spread coconut over crust; sprinkle with crisp rice cereal., Combine dulce de leche and water until smooth. Pour over cereal. Sprinkle pecans over dulce de leche; press down lightly., Bake until edges are set but center is still soft, about 30 minutes. (Do not overbake.) Remove from oven; immediately sprinkle with sea salt. Cool completely on a wire rack before cutting into 24 squares.

MOM'S BEST EVER BROWNIES

Steps:

• 1. PREHEAT: Oven to 350 degrees F. PREPARE: Baking pan by greasing and flouring 9x13x2-inch pan (or spraying with 'Baker's Joy' nonstick cooking spray).
• 2. FOLLOW DIRECTIONS CAREFULLY.
• 3. COMBINE: 2 sticks butter, 1 cup boiling water, and 4 Tbsp Cocoa in small sauce pan and bring to a boil.
• 4. MIX: 2 Cups Sugar, 2 Cups flour, and salt together and add hot mixture.
• 5. DISSOLVE: 1/2 Cup buttermilk and 1 tsp. baking soda together, add 2 eggs. MIX: Well. ADD: Nuts. MIX WELL: All above ingredients together. POUR: Into prepared pan and bake at 350 degrees F for 20-25 minutes. COOL: Slightly.
• 6. ICING: MEANWHILE: Prepare icing by melting, butter, milk, cocoa together in small sauce pan. ADD: Powdered sugar to thicken. ADD: Vanilla extract. SPREAD: Icing on slightly cooled brownies. SPRINKLE: Nuts over iced brownies. COVER: Until ready to serve. CUT: In squares. SERVE & ENJOY! STORE: Covered leftovers.

MAMA'S BROWNIES

Steps:

• Sift the flour and baking powder into a small bowl and set aside.
• Melt the margarine in a saucepan and add the cocoa.
• Heat for a minute on very low heat being careful not to burn.
• Remove from heat add sugar, flour and baking powder.
• Blend well then add eggs .
• Mix well add nuts.
• Pour into a greased 8x8 pan.
• Bake 350 for 20-30 minutes.

NOT YOUR MAMA'S COOKIES!

Steps:

• 1. Allow butter and eggs to come to room temp. I usually take them out about 2 hours before I'm ready to use. Chop chocolate squares into rough chunks, set aside. Mix dry ingredients (flours, baking soda/powder and salt) together and set aside
• 2. In mixer, cream together sugars and butter for about 5 minutes, until they are light and super creamy. (seems like a long time, but this is worth it) Add eggs one at a time and blend after each addition until well mixed. Stir in vanilla. Switch mixer to low and slowly add in the dry ingredients just until mixed in. Fold in the chocolate chunks and peanut butter chips. (Walnuts or almonds or pecans would be awesome in this!! I couldn't add any bc no one in my family likes them, except me)
• 3. At this point, this is where the willpower comes in!! Place a piece of plastic wrap directly on top of batter and then place another piece of wrap over the top of bowl and refrigerate for 36-72 hours!!!! I know, I know. But this step is well worth it. It gives all of the flavors time to "marinate" and get to know one another. The cookies are rich and so flavorful. It adds caramel notes of flavor because of the butter and brown sugar...... yum, I'm drooling lol
• 4. Finally, the day is here and you can bake them!! Preheat oven to 350* **During cooking process, keep the batter in the fridge to keep cold and always use a COLD baking sheet. Line baking pan with parchment paper. Break pretzel sticks. I broke mine into half and then half again. But it's up to you and it depends on the size of your sticks. You don't want them too small, bc you want to be able to taste them. Using an ice cream scoop or a tablespoon, scoop out dough. If it is too hard, run the scoop/spoon under hot water for a second. Shape dough into ball and place on prepared cookie sheet. Don't crowd the cookies, bc they do spread. Take your broken pretzels and stick them in the ball at random places. I used 4-5 pieces in each cookie. (you add the pretzel pieces now instead of when you make the batter, bc you don't want them to get mushy and still have a crunch) Sprinkle sea salt on the top of each cookie (this just takes the cookie up up and away!!)
• 5. Place cookies into oven. Cook for 15-20 minutes. Check on them at 15 minutes. Mine took all of the 20 minutes to cook. Let cool for a few minutes then transfer to wire rack to finish cooling......if you can wait, lol Finally you can enjoy the best cookie you've ever tasted! Try not to burn your mouth on the hot cookie!!

NOT YOUR MAMA'S BROWNIES

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
• 2. Cream margarine, eggs and sugar.
• 3. pour in cocoa and flour - only mix until lumps are broken up and all ingredients are moist (brownies hate to be over worked)
• 4. Fold in any extra dry goods you might want to add here (crumbled oreos is a great add, as is crumbled vanilla wafers)
• 5. bake for 18-20 minutes in 2 8x8 inch pans -or- bake for 40-45 minutes in a 9x9 inch pan (thicker brownies)depends on how gooey you like them. :).
• 6. Cool and serve! These are chewy brownies, not cakey brownies. Enjoy!