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Bonnie's Brownies (Photos)
Posted on 3/14/14 at 10:07 pm
Posted on 3/14/14 at 10:07 pm
It has been a tough work week and I was all Vegged out after dinner tonight when the wife (MHNBPF) announced, "I think I'm going to make a pan of Bonnie's Brownies.
Yes!
This is a favorite recipe that came into being one snowy winter night in 1983 when my wife and her best friend found themselves with two snack hungry husbands, five kids and a nearly empty pantry in the northern Arkansas town that was our home back then. I bet we have made Bonnie's Brownies 200 times in the last 30 years. Here is how you make them. You'll need:
1/2 rounded cup Cocoa, 2 Tablespoons Karo Syrup, 2 cups Sugar, 1 1/2 cups AP Flour, 4 eggs, 2 sticks of butter (melted), 2 teaspoons good Vanilla, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1 cup chopped pecans
Preheat oven to 325 and spray (Pam) coat a 9 X 13 pan
Hand mix all ingredients in a suitably sized mixing bowl:
Add to pan
and smooth out - the batter is very dense/thick and only about 3/4 inch thick in the pan - a perfect thickness for a brownie.
The brownies will cook on center shelf of the oven at 325 for 30 minutes. If you use a dark or glass pan, lower the oven temp 25 degrees.
Finished when a tooth pic stuck into the brownie comes out clean.
Sadly, these must cool on a rack for five minutes before cutting and serving.
On the plate
Oh - the beverage - Brownies need a beverage. My idea is strong hot coffee with an addition.
The closest I can come to Coffee art, courtesy of Baileys' Irish Cream.
Moist, dense and Oh so chocolaty
Not a bad desert while watching a little Joe Bonamassa and his Les Paul on the tube
All my stuff
Yes!
This is a favorite recipe that came into being one snowy winter night in 1983 when my wife and her best friend found themselves with two snack hungry husbands, five kids and a nearly empty pantry in the northern Arkansas town that was our home back then. I bet we have made Bonnie's Brownies 200 times in the last 30 years. Here is how you make them. You'll need:
1/2 rounded cup Cocoa, 2 Tablespoons Karo Syrup, 2 cups Sugar, 1 1/2 cups AP Flour, 4 eggs, 2 sticks of butter (melted), 2 teaspoons good Vanilla, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1 cup chopped pecans
Preheat oven to 325 and spray (Pam) coat a 9 X 13 pan
Hand mix all ingredients in a suitably sized mixing bowl:
Add to pan
and smooth out - the batter is very dense/thick and only about 3/4 inch thick in the pan - a perfect thickness for a brownie.
The brownies will cook on center shelf of the oven at 325 for 30 minutes. If you use a dark or glass pan, lower the oven temp 25 degrees.
Finished when a tooth pic stuck into the brownie comes out clean.
Sadly, these must cool on a rack for five minutes before cutting and serving.
On the plate
Oh - the beverage - Brownies need a beverage. My idea is strong hot coffee with an addition.
The closest I can come to Coffee art, courtesy of Baileys' Irish Cream.
Moist, dense and Oh so chocolaty
Not a bad desert while watching a little Joe Bonamassa and his Les Paul on the tube
All my stuff
This post was edited on 3/15/14 at 10:36 pm
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Posted on 3/14/14 at 10:10 pm to MeridianDog
That ax is bad ace.
Brownies look good.
IWEI.
Brownies look good.
IWEI.
Posted on 3/14/14 at 10:11 pm to MeridianDog
I would put my whole face in that pan. 
Posted on 3/14/14 at 10:14 pm to MeridianDog
Very nice. Next time you make them I can send you some ABV to spice those up.
Posted on 3/14/14 at 10:18 pm to BRgetthenet
quote:
ax is bad
And he knows how to use it.
Love Bonamassa. Good way to spend a little down time on a Friday night
Posted on 3/14/14 at 10:26 pm to MeridianDog
Thanks!
Now i'm hungry.
Now i'm hungry.
Posted on 3/14/14 at 11:48 pm to Btrtigerfan
With 100% certainty, I thoroughly enjoy every one of your food posts.
Recipes, pics, how to. Bravo.
Recipes, pics, how to. Bravo.
Posted on 3/15/14 at 12:20 am to MeridianDog
You and the wife, forgot her acronym, decide whether to adopt me yet?
Posted on 3/15/14 at 12:26 am to John McClane
quote:
JLSIX
Why somebody downvoted you bro?
Strange late night stuff.
Posted on 3/15/14 at 12:10 pm to SomethingLikeA
quote:
I thoroughly enjoy
Thanks bro. I enjoy doing them.
Posted on 3/15/14 at 1:14 pm to MeridianDog
Posted on 3/15/14 at 1:33 pm to TigerMyth36
Last night's brownies makes for this afternoon's snacks.
A little more solid today and maybe better. Only a hundred or two calories a snack, depending on how small the square is.
Provides an excellent excuse for another cup of coffee. Not that I need an excuse for refilling my coffee cup.
A little more solid today and maybe better. Only a hundred or two calories a snack, depending on how small the square is.
Provides an excellent excuse for another cup of coffee. Not that I need an excuse for refilling my coffee cup.
Posted on 3/15/14 at 8:08 pm to MeridianDog
MD,
I just made your recipe with my 7 year old. She had the idea of enhancing them with chocolate chips. So, we added 1 cup to the batter and sprinkled the rest on top. They came out delicious. Great recipe!
I just made your recipe with my 7 year old. She had the idea of enhancing them with chocolate chips. So, we added 1 cup to the batter and sprinkled the rest on top. They came out delicious. Great recipe!
Posted on 3/15/14 at 9:52 pm to puse01
My math skills may be questionable, but it looks to me like there are five eggs in there. So is it 4 or 5?
Posted on 3/15/14 at 9:54 pm to MeridianDog
Get rid of those pecans and I'm in.
Posted on 3/15/14 at 10:17 pm to Nawlens Gator
4 eggs or 5?
The wife says she only put four in. She says that the bottom yolk popped and the separation makes it look like 5 yolks. I know what you mean because it looks like 5. She says no. She says it won't matter if you use 5, that the eggs add structure to the brownie, and she knows more than me about such things because I am a chemist by degree and she is a food nutritionist by degree.
She says she would be much more concerned if you added three eggs than if you add five - that three would likely negatively impact the density and form of the cooked product.
so:
3 eggs = no
4 eggs = recipe
5 eggs = still ok - maybe a richer final product.
The wife says she only put four in. She says that the bottom yolk popped and the separation makes it look like 5 yolks. I know what you mean because it looks like 5. She says no. She says it won't matter if you use 5, that the eggs add structure to the brownie, and she knows more than me about such things because I am a chemist by degree and she is a food nutritionist by degree.
She says she would be much more concerned if you added three eggs than if you add five - that three would likely negatively impact the density and form of the cooked product.
so:
3 eggs = no
4 eggs = recipe
5 eggs = still ok - maybe a richer final product.
This post was edited on 3/15/14 at 10:52 pm
Posted on 3/15/14 at 10:21 pm to Nawlens Gator
I did four. Worked for me. Some seriously rich brownies. Good stuff...
Posted on 3/15/14 at 10:22 pm to puse01
quote:
She had the idea of enhancing them with chocolate chips.
We have done that too and they are very good with chips added. Glad you enjoyed them. Ours are all gone tonight, thanks to my poor willpower.
Edited to add: I showed your photo to the wife and she smiled, then said I needed to tell you that adding a cup of miniature marshmallows to the mix is nice too. She tells me she has done that and fed them to me.
I can't remember it but if she says they were good, then they must have been.
She also says you can sub half brown sugar for half of the white sugar.
Edited to add: also makes me feel good to think your seven year old might be making Bonnie's Brownies 50 years from now - for her kids.
This post was edited on 3/15/14 at 10:31 pm
Posted on 3/15/14 at 10:41 pm to MeridianDog
Very cool MD. I'm keeping that recipe. Thanks, bro!
Posted on 3/15/14 at 10:45 pm to puse01
quote:
I'm keeping that recipe
You're welcome. I promise it is one of the best a snow storm is coming and we're all going to die from white death comfort foods out there.
By the way. I love people who cook with their kids. I intended to say that earlier. Nice that she made them her brownies by adding the chips too.
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