“Any food not fit to wear is not fit to eat.”
Jim Rosenthal
‘Better Cake than Cream Brownies’…Chocolate Overdose
Diva @
Sugar Bar is hosting this intriguing event
“Beauty & the Feast”.
The challenge is to pick a cosmetic/beauty/body-hand-skincare,etc. product that has either a name that is food-related or has food-related ingredients. Use the combination of flavours of the product as best as you can& give it any funky name you like.
Picture courtesy Body Shop, UK
“Doubly rich for extra dry skin with a yummy chocolate-and-vanilla scent. An excellent moisturizer that melts at body temperature, leaving the skin feeling soft and silky smooth. “
With ingredients similar to what makes this delicious body butter, my ‘Better Cake Than Cream Brownies’ are on their way to Diva’s delicious feast!! Do stop by at the Sugar Bar to read her hilarious & interesting tales that spell the background for her event. It’s well worth the visit!
I connected to the event because of a small incident this morning. I was lavishing my recuperating little boy with my precious Cocoa Butter Body Butter, & he turned up his nose. Said, “YUK Mama, this smells of chocolate. I like to eat chocolate but it isn’t nice in the lotion!!” In Diva’s very words, she’s right when she says, “I suppose really, the men simply don’t get it.”
Triple Chocolate Brownies…better eaten than otherwise!!
I made these a while ago for the sons’ last day of school, which was a while ago. Have had them bookmarked for ages, & don’t know where the recipe came from. Was scribbled in my little book of recipes & decided to make them for a change from my regular ones. I adapted the recipe a bit here & there. Increased the butter & dark chocolate. These were nice, rich, decadent & seriously chocolaty…but not too fudgy. That may be because I over baked them a bit because I was on the phone!!
16 slices of delicious brownies…
He took a bunch of slices for his last day before school broke up for 2 long months of vacations, & the daughter took some (read many). I bunged the remainder into the freezer in an attempt to prevent a chocolate overdose…mean ole me!! Discovered them just yesterday, when the kids were running me ragged for a snack (yes, the boy is doing great; thanks for all your messages & good wishes…he’s famished as usual!!). Served the slices right out of the freezer…good as good could be!!! They disappeared in next to no time…
If the brownie bottoms look different, I can explain. Actually was making a cottage-cheese cheesecake from a recipe which was quite disastrous (won’t see it on the blog because it didn’t set & I eventually froze it like I did the cheesecake pops. The kids loved it, but it fell short of the something special, so the recipe has been duly shredded). To cut my long woebegone tale short, I had saved some biscuit crumb mixture from the base because it looked like too much.
Crumbs!!Decided to use them as a base to my brownies for contrast. Didn’t add majorly to taste, but sure made them look different & appealing!! The crumb base had digestive biscuits, butter & pistachio nuts whirred in the food processor. I lined my Victoria sandwich cake tin with these crumbs & topped them with the brownie batter!!! I think it looked pretty… check it out!
Rightside up… 
… & Upside down!!
Ingredients:Cocoa - 3 tbsps
Flour - 3/4 cup
Baking Soda - 1/4 tsp
Salt - 1/4 tsp
Butter - 1/2 cup
Sugar - 2/3 cup
Water - 2 tbsps
Dark chocolate - 100 gms
Vanilla Extract - 1 tsp
Eggs -2
Walnuts - 1/2 cup chopped
Chocolate chips - 1/2 cup
Method:
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Preheat the oven to 170 degrees C. Grease & line bottom of an 8″ Victoria sandwich tin or round baking tin, or 9″ square baking pan.
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Combine flour, baking soda and salt in small bowl and set aside.
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In saucepan, bring butter, sugar and water just to a boil. Remove from heat and add the dark chocolate & vanilla extract. Stir until smooth.
- Place chocolate mixture into a mixing bowl. Add eggs one at a time and beat well after each egg.
- Blend in flour mixture. Stir in remaining chocolate chip morsels and the chopped walnuts.
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Sprinkle the biscuit crumb evenly over the base of the tin. Gently turn the batter over the crumbs & spread evenly.
- Bake for 30 minutes. Cool in tin for 10-15 minutes, then turn out on rack & cool completely.
- Cool and cut into pie slices or as desired.
- Note: I think the original recipe used almonds instead of walnuts.
Brings me back to the point of the matter, which is…
“At some point of our lives, I’m certain we have played with our food. Turning our food into some sort of externally nourishing product (since you eat food and it provides nutrients internally) comes under that category too. As you can see, the links between cosmetics/beauty products and food are intriguing. It seems almost instinctive to make that link. Fact is, all beauty products somehow or another capitalize on food because it’s what is natural, has a lot of (sex) appeal and yes, food is good for you!”.
Let’s see what the rest of us can think of…all you men bloggers included!
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