Browning Brownies

Just received this oh so delicious recipe a couple weeks ago while visiting the Browning cooperate office.  A co-worker of mine had eaten these brownies on her last visit and wanted the recipe ever since.  Of course I have to have a copy!  There are lots of steps but it goes together pretty quickly.

Cream together until light and fluffy:
1 cup butter
2 cup sugar

Then add:
2 tsp vanilla
4 eggs (mixing after each addition)

Mix separately then combine with wet mixture:
6 T cocoa
1 cup flour
1/2 tsp salt

Bake @ 350 for 20-25 minutes, until toothpick comes out clean.  Cool brownies then spread on top:
1-7 oz container of Marshmallow creme

Melt together in saucepan:
1 cup peanut butter
2 cups chocolate chips

Then combine with:
3 cups rice krispies

Spread on top of marshmallow creme and allow to cool before serving (if you can wait that long!)

cupcake-a-thon

I wanted to make several different flavors of cupcakes so I decided to find a bunch of recipes then mix and match to get the flavor combinations I wanted.  I didn't want to make an entire batch of cupcakes for each flavor so I scaled back each recipe to make the pictured amount of cupcakes for each flavor.

Dark chocolate cupcake with salted caramel 

This snack cake recipe formed the base for my chocolate cupcakes.  I filled them with the caramel from this recipe.  I just omitted the powdered sugar and sprinkled in a bit of sea salt.  This is the recipe for the frosting.  I like it because it has the perfect texture for piping and you don't have to have powdered sugar.  

 Lemon cupcake with white frosting and zest garnish

I used this for the lemon cupcakes and the same frosting as above.  I also added a bit of lemon juice to the frosting to make it more lemony.

Strawberry cupcake with pureed strawberries and strawberry garnish

Here is the recipe I used for the strawberry cupcakes.  I used a basic buttercream frosting and added a bit of strawberry puree for flavor.