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    Chocolate Nutella Brownies With Amazing Kitchen Sink Peanut Butter Frosting

    Published: Mar 15, 2017 · Updated: Mar 15, 2017 by Kevin Williams | 2 Comments

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    By Kevin Williams

    One of these days I'll learn...

    I enjoy baking with my 3 ½ year daughter, Aster.   With each passing week she becomes more capable in the kitchen, eager to help measure out flour, butter, sugar, and stir.   "No, I want to get the sugar!"  she'll bellow if I start to get it out of the pantry.  Man, I love that enthusiasm of wanting to do a job.  An activity like baking is a welcome winter respite from the TV and something fun she and I can do together.  The one ingredient that makes it a more difficult endeavor: our 6 1 /2 month old daughter, Beatrice.   Their mother was at the grocery the other day and I was at home with the daughters so I thought we would try to bake something basic. Again, fine with Aster, but when you throw Bea into the mix.  Well, it's a recipe for a harried, haphazard project as I'm attempt to guide Aster with one hand and hold Bea in the other arm, because she doesn't like to stay in her "exer-saucer" very long, at least not when an exciting kitchen project is going on that she wants to be a part of!

    A peanut butter-nutella brownie with a "Kitchen Sink" frosting. Good stuff.

    I was thinking that an easy dessert sounded good.  We didn't have a ton of ingredients of anything on hand (which is why Rachel was at the grocery), but I found a recipe online for a Nutella-Peanut Butter Brownie.

    The brownie actually turned out pretty decent. Perhaps a touch dry, nothing a little frosting couldn't take care of.  Wow, the frosting turned out good. We didn't have any powdered sugar, but we did have some peanut butter still, so I used some of that by improvising with a "toss in the kitchen sink" manta.  I put maybe half a cup in a bowl, and I added perhaps about one-fourth stick of butter to it. A splash of milk. A splash of vanilla and a lot of sugar.   And then the coup de grace: about a half cup of almond butter.  That really deepened the flavor. Even though processed peanut butter has sugar,  without it it just tasted like, well, peanut butter.  The sugar (maybe I did 3 /4 a cup total) added really tempered the peanut butter and added a sweet enough taste that it melded well with the brownies.  I've said before that I enjoy experimenting in the kitchen, and this frosting experiment turned out well.  So if you want an easy brownie with a unique-tasting frosting, look no further!  Just frost the brownies when they are warm and if you use my basic concoction above you'll get a thick, but still very spreadable, frosting.

    Chocolate Nutella Brownies With Amazing Kitchen Sink Peanut Butter Frosting
     
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    Prep time
    10 mins
    Cook time
    40 mins
    Total time
    50 mins
     
    Serves: 20 brownies
    Ingredients
    • 1 cup butter (2 sticks), melted
    • 2 cups granulated sugar
    • 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
    • 4 large eggs, room temperature
    • 4.5 ounces (1 cup) all-purpose flour
    • ¾ cup cocoa
    • ⅛ teaspoon salt
    • ½ teaspoon baking powder
    • ½ cup Nutella
    • ½ cup peanut butter
    Instructions
    1. Dump everything in a bowl.
    2. Stir well and attempt to get all the flour mixed in thoroughly.
    3. Pour into greased 9 X13 baking dish.
    4. Bake 30 - 40 minutes until butter knife inserted in the middle comes out clean.
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    About Kevin Williams

    Hi, my name is Kevin Williams and I am owner of Oasis Newsfeatures and editor of The Amish Cook newspaper column.

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    1. Nana

      March 15, 2017 at 5:54 pm

      Cooking tip: If you are out of powdered sugar place granulated sugar in the blender and give it a whirl and voila' you shall have powdered sugar.

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      • Kevin

        March 16, 2017 at 4:13 pm

        Wow, Nana, I never knew!

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