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Hummingbird High - A Desserts and Baking Food Blog in Portland, Oregon: Blueberry Brownies. Blueberry Brownies. Perfect Avocado Brownies with Cinnamon and Blueberries (vegan) Vegan, optional Gluten, Refined Sugar and Oil Free This is such a momentous day.

Perfect Avocado Brownies with Cinnamon and Blueberries (vegan)

I finally, finally perfected avocado brownies. Celebrate with me! It’s been a long and arduous journey, but we made it. If you follow me on instagram you will have seen the highs and lows, the almost perfect and the completely ruined brownies that came before these mighty ones today. Blueberry Crumble Slice. Blueberry again?

Blueberry Crumble Slice

Yeap, I've been loading up my pantry with blueberries since its so cheap now. Carlos never like eating it fresh but prefer it in his dessert so I made this slices with it. This cake is really light and moist. Ingredient : 6 tbsp of butter2 eggs1/2 cup of sugar2 tbsp of sour cream1 tsp of vanilla1 cup of flour1/4 tsp of salt1/2 tsp of baking powder2 cups of fresh blueberries. Blueberry crumb bars. I uploaded pictures of this recipe yesterday onto Flickr, but didn’t get to telling you all about it because I was feeling a little lackadaisical after that whole seven days in a row of posting thing.

blueberry crumb bars

Three hours later, I received this comment: “Omg, post the recipe already!” Hmmph! I thought. The natives are getting restless. But who could blame them? Red Berries Tray Bake with Cheesecake Ripple - Berry Week #2. I am a girl and I love pink.

Red Berries Tray Bake with Cheesecake Ripple - Berry Week #2

Well, maybe a woman now, hehe. Well, girls seem to be born with this liking for pink. My girls love pink. When brûlée goes bad: Lemon Coconut Cheesecake Bars. Amélie Poulain cultive un goût particulier pour les tous petits plaisirs.

When brûlée goes bad: Lemon Coconut Cheesecake Bars

Elle aime plonger sa main au plus profond d’un sac de grain... briser la croûte des crèmes brûlées avec la pointe de la petite cuillère... et faire des ricochets sur le Canal Saint-Martin. ~ Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain. Amelie cultivates a taste for small pleasures. She likes dipping her hand into sacks of grain, cracking crème brûlée with a teaspoon and skipping stones at St.

Martin's Canal ~ Amelie These were meant to be brûlée bars. But despite what people tell you, you just can't brûlée properly in the oven. Delicious expectations: mocha brownies. Now, I return to this young fellow.

Delicious expectations: mocha brownies

And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations. ~ Charles Dickens, Great Expectations. I love baking but I'm actually not that good a baker. Dude, I've mistaken salt for sugar and made a very salty chocolate log and almost burnt our house down by using a plastic microwave muffin tin in the oven thinking it was silicon. Being debilitatingly clumsy, baking with me is not a pretty sight. It usually involves me burning myself on the oven, butter and sugar flying missiles because I've set the beaters on too high, and flour all over myself, the kitchen, and the dog. The baked brownie, spiced up. If you’ve made as many brownies as I have in my life–and that’s a lot.

the baked brownie, spiced up

I mean A LOT. Just ask my hips. –you come to realize a couple things: There are no bad from-scratch brownies.* Seriously, not even the batch that I forgot to add the flour to when I was in middle school, that I am pretty sure my mother still brings up whenever someone mentions what a great cook her daughter is, was destroyed.

A little charred at the edges, perhaps, but they still quite tasty in the middle. Because you know we totally ate them anyway. And if you’re me, the other thing you will likely realize is that it is impossible to have any brownie loyalty in this world. For years, my perfect brownie was the One-Bowl Brownie, and when I’m in a rush, I still make them. So what does one do when yet another brownie comes across the horizon promising to put all brownies before it to shame? “Meh,” I said, “Why do people always have to mess with a good thing? Second of all, the flavorings were awesome.

Espresso Brownies. September 18, 2010 Espresso Brownies Something deep and sweet – extremely sweet.

Espresso Brownies

They are so sweet and moist, that they literally hurt my tooth. Take a quick sip of freshly brewed coffee and you are ready for another bite. At the end, you just don’t care anymore about the hurting tooth, you just want to finish eating up the whole pan of brownies. Peanut Butter And Chocolate Brownies Recipe. Cheesecake Brownies. This is a recipe from Land O Lakes and I jazz it up a bit by adding a cheesecake topping to it.

Cheesecake Brownies

These brownies are dense with great chocolate flavor just the way we likes it. Ingredients :1/2 cup (1 stick) butter2 oz of unsweetened baking chocolate (I used 4 oz)1 1/4 cup of sugar (I used only 1 cup)2 eggs1 cup of flour1 tsp of vanilla1/2 tsp of baking powder1/4 tsp of salt For the topping :1 (8 oz) low fat cream cheese1 egg1/3 cup of sugar.

Cheesecake-marbled brownies. Rumor has it that pregnancy doesn’t just lead to swollen ankles, an insatiable need for peanut butter and a belly that causes what I will have to assume are otherwise polite people to ask if you’re having twins.

cheesecake-marbled brownies

Rumor has it that pregnancy quite often leads to teacup humans, and those teacup human need to be “delivered” from one world to another. Cheesecake Brownies Recipe. Rocky Road Brownies. So… you know that part in Scent of a Woman… yes, hello, 1992…. when blind Al Pacino sniffs out pretty ladies… literally… and somehow worms his way into their good graces? Have you seen Scent of a Woman staring Al Pacino and Chris O’Donnell? Of course you have. If blind Al Pacino were to sniff me out, I’m pretty sure I’d smell like these brownies.

This fact is both troubling and awesome. Now I kinda want to reinact the tango scene. To quell your puzzled looks, let me answer a few questions. I’m going to keep this short. These brownies seem like the exact right thing to be doing this time of year. Super fudgy chocolate with nuts and campfire style toasted marshmallows. I do have a few pro-tips when it comes to this recipe. . - So you’ve baked the brownies, loaded the warm brownies up with marshmallows, turned on your broiler and you’re ready to toast your marshmallows? - You’re going to need a sharp knife and hot running water to cut through these brownies. Pro-tips. These be them: aaaand. Now… Best Brownies. Diana and I baked some brownies for her University Accounting Club bake sale 3 weeks ago. We cut and packed everything for the sale .

So I decided to bake some for us a few days ago. The one for the bake sale we added butterscotch & chocolate chips and for this one I added chocolate chips, walnuts and some fudge topping. Ingredients :1/2 cup of butter (1 stick)1 cup of sugar2 eggs1 tsp of vanilla1 tsp of instant coffee1/2 cup of unsweetened cocoa powder1/2 cup of flour1/4 tsp of salt1/4 tsp of baking powder1 cup of semi-sweet chocolate chips1/2 cup of chopped walnuts Fudge ingredients : 4 tbsp of butter3 tbsp of unsweetened cocoa powder1 tbsp of honey1 tsp of vanilla3/4 cup of powder sugar1 tbsp of warm water (optional) Baked 2 big trays for the bake sale 1) Pre-heat oven to 350 degree F. All cut and packed ready for the bake sale. Note : Be sure your melted butter is not too hot before you add in the sugar and eggs. My favorite brownies. I understand that when a website but 5 11/12 years old boasts not one or two but eleven brownie recipes that it’s possible, perhaps, or at least worth considering that the brownie category: it’s been exhausted.

The brownie beat reporter can retire. The archives are full. I get it, I do. Shouldn’t we be discussing blueberry pie, summer harvest tians or backyard grillery? Supernatural Brownies. Man, I had a tough week last week. It was a combination of things. First things first, my family was in town. While I love my family, it's always a little bit stressful hosting them as they require a lot of hand-holding in terms of entertainment, figuring out what to do, etc. In addition to taking care of all the planning and activities, I basically played chauffeur all week.

If you know me in real life, you know what a foul mood driving around will make me since I tend to avoid it at all costs (I bike to work everyday, rain or shine). Peach shortbread. Viennese Plum Cake.