No bakes (aka chocolate patties)

Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Bread

Recipe by Our Best Bites

Ingredients

2 cups all purpose flour (spooned into measuring cup and leveled)
1 cup whole wheat flour (again, don’t scoop!)
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoons nutmeg
1/4 teaspoons ground cloves
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon table salt
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 1/2 cup white sugar
6 ounce container vanilla yogurt
3 eggs, slightly beaten
15 ounce can pumpkin puree
1/2 cup canola oil
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup chocolate chips (plus a few extra for the top of loaves)

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Spray 2 9×5 (or similar sized) loaf pans with nonstick spray and set aside.

Combine flours (after you put your flour in the bowl, just grab a teaspoon or two of it and toss with chocolate chips), cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.  Whisk gently to combine and set aside.

In a separate mixing bowl combine brown sugar and white sugar and whisk to combine, breaking up any clumps of brown sugar.  Add yogurt, eggs, pumpkin, oil, and vanilla extract and whisk until smooth.

Slowly add dry ingredients to wet and mix together, being careful to not over mix.  When combined, gently stir in chocolate chips.   Divide batter between loaf pans and sprinkle a few extra chocolate chips on top.  Bake for 50-60 minutes or until a skewer comes out with a few crumbs attached.  All ovens are different, I would set your timer for about 45 minutes and keep an eye on it after that.  Don’t overbake!

Let cool for 10 minutes and then run a sharp knife around edge of pan and remove loaves from pan.

Fat Witch Easy Chocolate Frosting

SO the brownies are delicious but adding frosting on them makes them even more deadly! Here is the easy chocolate frosting recipe.

1/2 C Semisweet Chocolate Chops
4 Tablespoons (1/2 Stick) Unsalted Butter
3 Tablespoons Half-and Half (or evaporated milk)
1 Teaspoon Pure Vanilla Extract
1 Cup Confectioners' Sugar

Melt the chocolate and butter in a small saucepan over low heat. Stir constantly and do not let the mixture boil. Remove from the heat. With a whisk, beat in the half-and-half and vanilla. Measure and then sift the confectioner's sugar directly into the pan and beat until well combined and smooth, about 2 minutes. After spreading the icing on cooled brownies, put the pan in the refrigerator to harden the frosting for at least 1 hour. Cut the bars after frosting has set or just before serving.

Makes 1 Cup.

Fat Witch Brownies

So for my wedding I got a Fat Witch Brownie cook book. Fat Witch Brownies are famous in NY and after making them I know why! They are the BEST BROWNIES IN THE WORLD. I will never again make a boxed brownie mix. I have made these brownies a handful of times and they are delicious every time. Here is the recipe.

Cocoa Brownies

12 Tablespoons (1 1/2 sticks) Unsalted Butter
1/2 C Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
1 1/2 C Sugar
4 Large Eggs
1 Tablespoon Pure Vanilla Extract
3/4 Cup Flour
1/2 teaspoon Salt

Grease 9-inch X 9-inch baking pan ***(I use a 9 X13 pan because I like the brownies thinner).

In a small saucepan, heat the butter over low hear just until it is melted, but not brown. Set aside to cool for 5 minutes.

Add the cocoa powder and sugar to the butter and whisk until well blended. Add the eggs one at a time, whisking after each until the mixture is smooth and shiny. Add the vanilla and whisk until mixed well.

Measure the flour and salt and sift together into the batter. Mix the batter gently until well combined and no  trace of the dry ingredients remains.

At this point, if desired stir in any extras like walnuts.

Spread the batter evenly in the prepared baking pan and bake for 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean or with only crumbs not batter on it.

Remove from the oven and cool on a rack for 1 hour. Cut just before serving.

***If you make the brownies in the 9x13 pan I bake the brownies for 20 minutes****
Makes 12 to 16 brownies.

*** I have made these brownies in advanced and frozen them until I needed them and they were delicious***