Ash Wednesday
April 2012
12 posts
Peanut butter brownie muffins with pretzel topping
Yesterday I came across this delicious recipe for peanut butter pretzel brownies. Far too many ingredients and waaay too much sugar, though! So I looked for a more simple peanut butter brownie recipe - my belief with brownies is that the fewer ingredients, the better the result - and found this. But did I want to grease a pan? No I did not. Muffin cases it was, then. And that makes perfectly sized portions of brownies, am I right? So I made them, though I ended up adapting the recipe slightly as I always do.
Ingredients:
200g dark chocolate
I have no idea how much peanut butter… 150g or so, whatever was left in the jar. Smooth as I had no chunky.
2 large eggs
100g self-raising flour
about a tablespoon of high quality cocoa as I thought it needed a bit of oomph in the chocolate dept
180g soft brown sugar
pretzels
I melted 150g of chocolate, the sugar and the peanut butter in a pan on a low heat after putting the oven on at 180C. When the sugar was melted I took the pan off the heat and added the eggs one at a time, then added them into a mixing bowl with the flour and cocoa, and stirred them all together. This makes a very thick batter! I poured the batter into individual muffin cases in muffin trays. Depending on the size of your cases you’ll probably yield around a dozen. I pressed a pretzel into the top of each muffin, then melted some leftover peanut butter in the microwave on a medium heat and drizzled it over the top of each one. I baked them in the oven for about 20 minutes (check after 15), then melted the leftover chocolate and drizzled that over the top and set the brownies aside to cool.
This makes a dense, very rich and chewy brownie. The pretzel on the top adds a nice little salty crunch. Delicious!
valar morghulis: Amount of Screentime Each Character has had so far... →
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Oh look Littlefinger has more screen time than the following POV characters
Davos Seaworth, Daenerys Targaryen, Catelyn Stark, Jon Snow, Sansa Stark, Bran Stark, and Theon Greyjoy.
I’m…
POINTLESS ROS HAS HAD 11 MIN SO FAR THIS SEASON
“But the worst day of all was when it hit me that Jesus’ own most fervent prayer was refused: “Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.” I must have read that verse or heard it a hundred times before without seeing or hearing. Maybe I didn’t want to see it. But then one day I saw it. It just knocked me in the head. This, I thought, is what is meant by “thy will be done” in the Lord’s Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God’s will may not be the same. It means there’s a good possibility that you won’t get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer. It means you may be crucified.
After Jesus’ terrible prayer at Gethsemane, an angel came to Him and gave Him strength, but did not remove the cup.
Before that time I may have had my doubts about public prayers, but I had listened to them complacently enough, even when they were for the football team. I had prayed my own private prayers complacently enough, asking for things I wanted, even though I knew well already that a lot of things I wanted I was not going to get, no matter how much I prayed for them. (Though I hadn’t got around to thinking about it, I already knew that I had been glad to have some things I had got that I had never thought to want, let alone pray for.) But now I was unsure what it would be proper to pray for, or how to pray for it. After you have said “thy will be done,” what more can be said? And where do you find the strength to pray “thy will be done” after you see what it means?” —Jayber Crow, in Wendell Berry’s Jayber Crow (via gmd)
After Jesus’ terrible prayer at Gethsemane, an angel came to Him and gave Him strength, but did not remove the cup.
Before that time I may have had my doubts about public prayers, but I had listened to them complacently enough, even when they were for the football team. I had prayed my own private prayers complacently enough, asking for things I wanted, even though I knew well already that a lot of things I wanted I was not going to get, no matter how much I prayed for them. (Though I hadn’t got around to thinking about it, I already knew that I had been glad to have some things I had got that I had never thought to want, let alone pray for.) But now I was unsure what it would be proper to pray for, or how to pray for it. After you have said “thy will be done,” what more can be said? And where do you find the strength to pray “thy will be done” after you see what it means?” —Jayber Crow, in Wendell Berry’s Jayber Crow (via gmd)
Keira Knightley for Interview Magazine | Tom & Lorenzo →
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I often find Keira a bit bland but these photos are awesome.
aesthetics of joy » Blog Archive » Polka-dotted joy →
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An interactive installation at the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art by the self-described “obsessive artist” Yayoi Kusama, The obliteration room offers a whitewashed home interior as a blank canvas for children visiting the museum to cover with colorful dots. It’s a joyful exercise in participatory art, in abundance, in layering and accretion. Visitors leave their traces on the space. Their experience of the exhibit becomes manifest in the exhibit. And through the innocent randomness of children’s choices, a pleasurable kind of order emerges. The impulses to cover and to cluster — to cover and conquer a new white space or to cluster around a social crowd of others — make the distribution playful and human.
