Something's Wrong, Here...

It's ironic, then, that for my first real post I've made brownies, baked on a Wednesday. C'est la vie!

I knew I was running low on flour, and was too lazy to go get more (Don't judge me! Those 5lb bags are heavy). But I'd found this brownie recipe that only called for 1/2 cup of flour -- which is great for two reasons:
1. I had enough flour in my house to make the recipe, and
2. A brownie recipe with only 1/2 cup of flour is bound to be deliciously rich and fudgy.

Alas, when I started gathering my ingredients on Sunday afternoon, I realized I had no sugar. None.
So I had to postpone my delicious brownies until later in the week. (And don't think for a moment that my coworkers weren't fully expecting some sort of delicious, sugary snack on Monday morning. They asked; I answered; they pouted. It was tragic. They even offered to buy me a pound of sugar before I went home that day. . . )

But I think my dear office-mates would agree that these peppermint patty brownies were well worth the wait. Yep, that's "peppermint patty," as in -- there's a layer of York peppermint patties in the middle. Because really, who can argue with chocolate and mint?

I'm a big (huge!) fan of any recipe that begins by instructing me to completely cover the pan with foil, because this way I might actually keep my shiny new pans... shiny and new.  Hooray!

Semisweet chocolate! A great start.

 Chocolate + Butter = Best Friends (in a heatproof bowl)

Bring water to simmer --

NOT a boil.  

It's a good idea to pay attention when you're melting chocolate and butter. It's not a good time to stop and take photographs of melting chocolate, because it has a tendency to burn when you do this...

Perfect!

Add sugar, and then eggs.

This is actually a good time to stop and take photographs. I like to let the chocolate-butter-sugar combo cool for minute before I add my eggs, so they don't scramble. 

And add a little bit of cocoa powder to make sure it's really chocolatey...

 

Start with a layer of batter, then add peppermint patties, and cover with remaining batter.

Something strange happened, and a few of my patties bubbled to the top while the brownies were baking.  But even though they weren't beautiful, they were certainly delicious!