2002-10-10 9:08 a.m.
Let Your Hormones Do The Shopping
Here's what happens when you let your hormones and not your head do the grocery shopping:
- Cooking oil
- Ghirardelli Sweet Ground Chocolate and Cocoa (1 lb can)
- 2 lbs butter
- Eggs
- Kraft Macaroni and Cheese Deluxe
- Bowtie pasta (1 lb box)
- 2 cartons frozen pesto
- Brainless celebrity magazine
- Breath strips
There isn't a single thing on that list that isn't perfectly awful for one's body and/or soul. But that's ok; according to the tract left on my windshield yesterday, I'm already going to hell anyway.
But wait! My moral loss/weight gain can work to your benefit. This recipe (helpfully printed on the chocolate can above) is for the Best. Brownies. Ever. If love could be bought, this would be the currency.
If you can't find Ghirardelli where you live, find the best cocoa you can and mix it with sugar. Ghirardelli's website suggests 1/2 cup cocoa to 1/2 cup sugar, but that may be a little on the sweet side.
Ghirardelli Award Winning Brownies
- 2 eggs
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 tsp. pure vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup butter or margarine, melted
- 3/4 cup Ghirardelli Sweet Ground Chocolate and Cocoa
- 2/3 cup unsifted flour
- 1/4 tsp. baking powder
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 1/2 cup walnuts, chopped [I usually leave these out]
- 1 cup Ghirardelli Double Chocolate Chips (optional)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Using a spoon, stir eggs with sugar and vanilla; add butter. Sift Sweet Ground Chocolate with flour, baking powder and salt. Stir into egg mixture; add nuts [or don't]. Stir in chips. Spread into a greased [with butter, please! These are already rotten enough for you, might as well go all out] 8 inch or 9 inch square pan. Bake 20-30 minutes. For extra chewy brownies, use 8 inch pan and less baking time. For cake-like brownies, use 9 inch pan and longer baking time. Cut into squares. Makes 16-20 brownies. [Shyah, right. 9 tops, less than that if you're hungry. ]