Gluten Free Chocolate Brownies

Brownie Batter, can you say YUM….

Love hot fresh brownies or cold brownies or actually brownies any way you want to serve them..

Cool Whip is also good.

Here follows the recipe. Keep in mind these pictures are of the batch with that had just a little two much flour.

***************Note to self and for you–

When you use Teff Flour esp ground Teff Flour use less flour overall. It just soaks up lots of the liquid. Teff if you have not tried it is a wonderful flour for baking especially if there is chocolate involved.

I always just use some Teff, it cannot be used as a full replacement flour.

Here is a picture of the little babycakes pan I use sometimes, Gluten Free does not keep fresh a long time and

I don’t need that many more pounds on my hips and ass hence the Pan.  These little Babycakes freeze wonderfully,

I use this pan for lots of different baked goods, even baby Meatloafs.. You too can find this pan at your local Target.

These are an original “On the Go Goodies” recipe. These do not need frosting, however they can be dressed up with

a whole half nut or a piped rosebud and leaf or just leave them naked.

1 Cup Butter
2 Cups Sugar
1 t. Vanilla
4 Eggs
3.4 Cup Cocoa
¼ Cup Oil

1 Cup Gluten Free Flour- use mine or yours

1/3 cup Teff Flour

1 Cup Nuts- Optional

Preheat Oven to 350 degrees.

1. In Medium saucepan melt Butter, Cocoa and Oil

2. Remove from heat and stir in Sugar

3. Blend in Eggs one at a time or if in a hurry all at once

4. Stir in Vanilla

5. Blend in  Flour and Nuts

6. Spread in a greased 9 x 13 cake pan.

Bake for 30 minutes.

If you are using my Babycakes style pan check at 15 minutes and for gosh sakes don’t go over 20 minutes

Keep in mind these are really supposed to be more fudgey than this, Just use the Flour amount listed above

UNLESS you are not using Teff Flour, if you are just using regular flour then use the 1 1/2  cups Flour.

 

30 days to a new habit and a Recipe

Ok, they say do something for 30 days in a row and it will become a habit-   Hmm wonder if that works for sex??  Ok,  I digress but I intend to post for the 30 days to get into this habit.  Hope you are enjoying this so far cause its work for me- at least learning this bloggin stuff is- talking comes 2nd nature to me. 

 

I was jones’n for some chocolate tonight so I threw together a cake… Not a biggie I know but it has to be Gluten Free and and I only go for scratch so here is the recipe.  It started life as a normal regular flour recipe and all I have to do is use my Gluten Free flour to make it ok for me so not bad at all, as long as you have your flour mixed up ahead of time.

Buttermilk Brownies

2 cups flour                       2 cups sugar                          1/2 t. salt

Mix this together in your mixer or large bowl.

1 stick butter or oleo          1 cup water                            1/c cup cannola oil

1/4 cup cocoa

In saucepan bring these items to a boil and add to the dry mix, beat well, then add

1/2 cup buttermilk              2 eggs                1 t. soda           1t. vanilla

in the order listed, beat for about 1 minute – now you can stop here or like I did tonight I added 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips (because I did not have quite enough cocoa) 

Pour batter into a Pam’d large jelly roll pan and bake for about 25 minutes at 400 degrees

or till done.

Now after you bake this you may say well its great but its more like a sheet cake than brownies and you would be right but the recipe was named brownies…..

Now I don’t always frost this cake – it is yummy and moist just the way it is- UP TO YOU.