Joni’s Peanut Butter Brownies
January 1, 2008 at 9:51 am | In blahblah |
aren’t they purdy? granted, they’re not the way Joni intended them to be, I’m sure. but I have a good excuse for that:
1. I used sugar in the raw and it’s not known to give the results you expect when not specifically called for in a recipe, and
2. I didn’t cover them with the cream cheese/PB topping Joni’s recipe normally comes with because
3. my derrière doesn’t need it, and especially because of
4. a bottle of molasses choosing this very moment to commit death by hara-kiri. or, you know, by jumping out of a cupboard and falling head first on the kitchen floor.
don’t even get me started on how painful it is to wipe that shiitake off the floor [along with shards of glass] and how annoying it feels to have said shards of glass digging in your knees while you’re busying yourself cleaning the mess up quickly so that the cats [bless their paws] don’t hurt themselves with their well-known curiosity.
anyway, these brownies, even with the changes I had to inflict upon them, are the bomb. rich, decadent, hard-to-keep-your-paws-off-of-them amazing. yet another great reason to go out and get a copy of Cozy Inside.
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peanut butter brownies?!?!?!??!?!! ahhhh, sinful and delicious!!!! and hey, your changes sound terrific - actually, it makes the brownies sounds even better!! :0D
Comment by VeggieGirl — January 1, 2008 #
The molasses incident sounds like a pain indeed. but I agree with Liz, I don’t think the changes you made hurt the deliciousness of the recipe at all! looks so yummy.
Comment by Bonnie — January 1, 2008 #
molasses hari-kari?? oh my gosh, that sounds awful (yet hilariously described). I’m glad your knees and their paws are ok! And those brownies look sinful and wonderful to sink teeth into. :E yum!
Comment by Liz² — January 1, 2008 #
Ahhh…my full (glass) bottle of liquid stevia committed the same act a few weeks ago! I feel your pain with the glass clean up–and the horror of the thought of wasting all that food/money/recipe potential!
Your brownies look amazing, despite your “excuses”!
Courtney
Comment by Courtney — January 1, 2008 #
that looks and sounds like a kick-butt dessert. hey, a brownie doesn’t need an extra cream cheese and pb topping if it already has peanut butter in it!
and i did not know that about sugar in the raw. it is the only sugar i’ve been using for baking. um, haha. is there a specific type i should be using instead?
that sucks about the molasses accident! yuck.
Comment by ruby red vegan — January 2, 2008 #
Happy New Year Celine, I’m sorry it started with a splat, but the result of brownies sounds good!
Comment by melisser — January 2, 2008 #
Happy new year to you too, Melisser!! <3
ruby red vegan: well if sugar in the raw works for you, don’t change a thing! I found it sometimes changed the texture of fluffy baked goods like muffins and cakes in my experience, so I usually go for vegan sugars that are a bit less coarse.
Comment by Celine — January 2, 2008 #
I think these will have to make an appearance in my tummy sometime soon….
Comment by Vegan_Noodle — January 2, 2008 #
I want to get Cozy Inside so badly! I think this post just wore down the last of my resistance (resistance based solely on the wrongness of me buying like my 35th cookbook). Those brownies look awesome, despite the molasses incident!
Comment by textual bulldog — January 2, 2008 #
awww…so sorry about that suicidal molasses! your version of those brownies came out quite cakey. they look good. and trust me, my derriere could live without the creem cheeze topping too!
Comment by Joni — January 4, 2008 #
I hear you, TB, it’s come to the point where I just don’t have room left for new cookbooks, and yet what do I do? buy more of them. I justify the expense by saying I never buy anything else, never go out for food, and so on. [and then I go breaking molasses jars and throwing my money out the window by being a klutz!]
Comment by Celine — January 4, 2008 #
[...] in the raw, and vanilla soy yogurt for the egg. let me tell you they were the fudgiest [compared to last time when they came out a bit cakier but still irresistible], most insane brownies and I didn’t [...]
Pingback by Nom Nom Nom ad vitam aeternam « have cake, will travel! — January 25, 2008 #
I’m drooling. Any chance you can post your version of these, the one’s that were “the fudgiest…most insane brownies”?
Comment by LatinaVegan — June 23, 2008 #
I’m not sure I understand, LatinaVegan, but here’s Joni’s original recipe.
Comment by Celine — June 23, 2008 #