Sweet Delicious Cheesecake Brownie – 2nd Attempt

May 26, 2009 · Posted in Baked Goods, Cheap Eats, Pastries, Quick Eats · 2 Comments 

Yes I’m back!  I apologize for the lack of posts.  I’m rarely at home these days and I can’t even remember spending time with the computer as gym, happy hours, and lots of schmoozing occupy my days.

Now many of you should know how much I love this Cookie Madness website. I have never brownies before and I thought I would make the attempt to actually do it. I am not much of a baker, but somehow baking helps me cope with stress in my current life. You can ask any of my friends in the past and they will tell you that I was never much of a baker because of my lazy ways. This time, I was highly motivated to make it for two particular young attractive people in my life whom I absolutely adore! Yes I have to have the curiosity first and then the motivation in order to bake.  Sounds crazy right?  But that’s just how I am.

Ok, you must be wondering from reading the title of my post, where is the first attempt?  Well, the first attempt ended in such utter shame and embarrassment that I cannot even begin to post about it because it makes me mad. Make a long story short, I will never make dark chocolate brownies and I will never take the timing of the baking process on the instructions in a literal manner. Never, ever, in my personal experience bake brownies in a 9 inch baking pan for more than 35 minutes. Never!!

This is the recipe that I used.  Yes I used a 9 incher instead of an 8 incher, but that shouldn’t even matter all that much.  I admit that I did overbake it, but overall I did not skew the results of the recipe!  Maybe I personally do not like dark chocolate all too much, but baking over 35 minutes is too much! When you take the brownies out of the oven, the heat from the pan continues to “bake” the brownies so I think 30-35 minutes is the best time.  Let me show you the pictures of my failed attempt, which I hate to show!

Dark chocolate brownies

Dark chocolate brownies

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