The April 2009 challenge is hosted by Jenny from Jenny Bakes. She has chosen Abbey’s Infamous Cheesecake as the challenge.
I love doing Daring Bakers.  It forces me to challenge myself in ways I would not normally challenge myself.  It forces me to think outside of the box, and it allows me to be part of a group that includes the premier pastry chefs, bakers, and bloggers in the world.   I don’t know how you imagine my life to be, maybe blithely moving from mixer to oven to computer and back again, but that ain’t it!  Anyway, Daring Bakers gives me …read more

Are you feeling the chocolate love yet? Today marks the fourth day on our journey to chocolate Nirvana and this one should wake your tastebuds up with a jolt! Deep, dark chocolate brownie with ground coffee beans added makes for an intense brownie experience! Hazelnut cream glaze on the top creates a coffeeshop experience you won’t want to miss. This is a serious brownie! Next time I am going to add chocolate chips I think…And I know that I saw cappuccino chips at the store the other day-those might be good as well.
This is also a moist and chewy …read more

My camera is still on the fritz…whatever that really means…any way, I was reading
chocolate bytes this morning and drooling over the picture of the brownie Heather had posted, seen here in all it’s glory…

and of course it made me really really hungry. Really.  These are some of my favorites from Cooks Illustrated, I love the coffee/rich chocolate combo. If you can find them a couple of companies make coffee flavored chips and they are fantastic in these bars!
Deep Dark Espresso Brownies

1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
3/4 cup butter, melted
1/2 cup granulated sugar
3 large eggs
1 …read more