COFFEE BROWNIES

“While pointing to this recipe, Charlene oh so subtly asked me, ‘When are you going to make these?’ The beauty (other than my wife) is all you need to do is ask.  Well, as far as cookies go.

Coffee, plus brownie, what’s not to like? It’s all good and it may be all you’ll ever need.

Just a few notes… the brownies do come out a little gooey for my taste, but they are yummy.  My batch came out overdone on the edges, but plenty of brownies were salvageable from the interior.  Overdone and gooey at the same time?  Things that make you go hmmm.  Some of life’s mysteries, you just need to accept and move on.  Enjoy!”

2 teaspoons Espresso Powder

1 Tablespoon Hot Water

1 cup Butter

1½ cups Brown Sugar

½ cup Sugar

2 Eggs

2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract

1 teaspoon Grated Orange Peel

1¾ cups Flour

1 teaspoon Baking Soda

1 teaspoon Salt

½ teaspoon Cinnamon

1 cup White Chocolate Chips

1 cup Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Stir the espresso powder into the hot water. Let cool.

Cream butter, brown sugar, and sugar.

Mix in the eggs, vanilla extract, and grated orange peel.

Mix in the flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon.

Stir in the white chocolate chips and semi-sweet chocolate chips.

Pour batter into a greased 9”x13” baking pan.

Bake for 25 minutes or until golden brown.

Let cool completely.

 

Makes about 30 brownies.

Revised Source: “Cappuccino Crunch Bars” recipe from “The Cookie Bible” from Publications International.

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So, I was putting away the Christmas stuff and as I packed up the Christmas CDs (yes, we still have some CDs, please don’t judge me), I noticed this “Lifetime Music Guarantee” from “The Wall” music store. Chuckling, it looks like the lifetime music guarantee turned out to be for the lifetime of “The Wall” music store empire.  Sayonara, lifetime music guarantee.

Thinking I was oh so clever to observe this, I did a quick search to confirm that “The Wall” was indeed out of business. Soon I found out that they were indeed absorbed in a merger and approximately 100,000 people also found the now defunct “Lifetime Music Guarantee” funny and had already posted about it on the Internet.

Oh well, here’s post number 100,001. Just another brick in “The Wall?”  100,001 seems about right and now I guess that we can all stop and let the “Lifetime Music Guarantee” rest in peace.  No more bricks in “The Wall.”