I picked up a Nestle cookbook a little while ago, and I decided to make one of their brownies for my fellow co-workers on my last day before I left for break. Basically, the overall response was, "the best brownies ever made, ever." So here it is! Enjoy.

Layers Of Love Chocolate Brownies
Source: Nestle

Estimated Times:
Preparation - 10 min
Cooking - 30 min
Yields - 16 brownies

Ingredients:
- 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup NESTLÉ® TOLL HOUSE® Baking Cocoa
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, cut in pieces
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
- 3 large eggs, divided
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 cup chopped pecans
- 3/4 cup NESTLÉ® TOLL HOUSE® Premier White Morsels
- 1/2 cup caramel ice cream topping
- 3/4 cup NESTLÉ® TOLL HOUSE® Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels

Directions:
PREHEAT oven to 350° F. Grease 8-inch-square baking pan.

COMBINE flour, cocoa and salt in small bowl. Beat butter, granulated sugar and brown sugar in large mixer bowl until creamy. Add 2 eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add vanilla extract; mix well. Gradually beat in flour mixture. Reserve 3/4 cup batter. Spread remaining batter into prepared baking pan. Sprinkle nuts and white morsels over batter. Drizzle caramel topping over top. Beat remaining egg and reserved batter in same large bowl until light in color. Stir in semi-sweet morsels. Spread evenly over caramel topping.

BAKE for 30 to 35 minutes or until center is set. Cool completely in pan on wire rack. Cut into squares.

(P.S. - I didn't use a single thing Nestle when I made my brownies, and I substituted pecans for walnuts. Still turned out great ^_^)

Posted by Joanna at 2:20 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

PIKAPIKA: A japanese art style where where lights are photographed with long exposures and then edited to look like one animation.

I'd like to do this one day. Or live in a world where light doodles co-existed with humans. Wouldn't that make life beautiful?

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Congratulations - you correctly guessed that I was Chinese. And I appreciate the fact that you know a phrase or two in Mandarin. "Shie shie," you said, and when I instead turned the other way and left, you asked the Kinkos employee why I didn't respond. Well let me tell you - it's because I don't need middle-aged white men speaking to me in Chinese. It doesn't make me feel any more "comfortable" or "at home" when someone talks to me in my mother language, especially when we didn't exchange any words before that. I live in America, and I am perfectly capable of speaking in English. Plus, I was wearing my Vietnam flag shirt today, so I'm just going to assume that you don't know much about Asian culture.

Also, I'm sorry that your copier didn't work; maybe it's because you didn't activate your Kinkos card that you left in the machine that kept beeping until I took it out after maybe 30 beeps because you apparently DIDN'T NOTICE.

Oh yea, and bu ke qi.

Joanna

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