So Glen promised this week he was going to make brownies with coffee and I'm a
little dubious would dubious be the right word? I'm not a big coffee
fan. You're dubious but it's gonna be okay. good smell the coffee so this is
our homemade coffee liqueur it's like Kahlua but it's it's your
homemade liqueur. look here it's got a bunch of really good stuff in it so it's
not just coffee fair enough what happened on the edge here I don't
know if you can see just a little bit the paper went over so it's got this
parchment paper sling so that you can lift it out yeah I'm sure we'll manage
it's a little discoloured on one side big deal so to make this you're gonna
need butter, chocolate, white sugar, brown sugar, eggs, vanilla extract, flour, cocoa,
powder, baking powder, coffee liqueur, and salt. this is week four of our brownie recipe
experimentation so essentially the same as last weeks instead of chocolate
liqueur this time I put in the coffee look here looks just as fudgy as last
week does it look fudgy so these are
definitely fudgy brownies so we start out with browning some butter in a frying
pan medium heat you don't want to do it too quickly you don't want to burn the
butter you just want to drive off all of the water and brown it so as soon as you
see like a sandy brown on the bottom it's ready to then take off the heat and
you put the chocolate in to the butter and you just keep stirring until it's
melt again
oh I don't really smell the coffee no no you shouldn't be but I do get the rich
chocolatey flavor well that's what the coffee will do it'll it'll sort of boost
all the other flavors and hopefully we won't get a real coffee yeah yeah but
I'm I would say oh yeah it's not for me because of that but it still got that
really nice texture to it and I know the smell is really like the chocolate smell
is really there so so Julie doesn't drink coffee at all so the fact that she
doesn't like it says it it's a great coffee flavor exactly we I don't really
drink coffee are they but I like coffee flavor in things and I really like the
coffee flavor in this but the texture and everything else is really good about
it so yeah if you do like coffee I suspect that this is you know right up
your alley so and you know so it's just like a the
rest of it is just like making any other brownie you put the sugars and the egg
and a stand mixer and you whip it up until it's light and frothy
you put the vanilla in and whip that in
and then I put the coffee liqueur in and whip that in there as well
and then melted chocolate at that point um well first I I was waiting for the
chocolate to cool a little bit cuz you don't want to put it in with the eggs
too soon No so I sifted together the flour in the
cocoa powder baking powder and salt
got that mixed together and then I put all of that in the stand mixer a little
chocolate well yeah you would mm-hmm every once in
a while you need to stop the mixer and just take a rubber spatula and scrape
down the sides you just want to make sure that you've got everything mixed
together
and then with the with the stand mixer on low I just sort of spooned in the
flour and cocoa mixture you can do this off the stand mixer if you want but you
know this has been working out for me so I'm just gonna keep doing it this way
and then once the batter is ready I scraped that into a buttered baking pan
that I've put a parchment sling in and the parchment sling makes it very easy
to get the brownies out at the end I know a few other people my friend
Sabrina would really like them to coffee and the coffee flavor isn't overpowering
it is no it's it's no it is not and that's why it is it is not overpowering
I just it's a subtle coffee flavor but anything the chocolate is more
pronounced I think yeah like definitely for the smell and that initial smell
it's a very rich chocolate smell and it's you know that second bite in where
it's just like yeah it's coffee so next week I'm thinking um the chocolate
liqueur and Grand Marnier that's I think that might appeal to me a little bit
more so that whole Christmas chocolate orange type deal and see how that comes
together I'm willing to try it I'll just pack this up though are you gonna have
all of this you're gonna have you're gonna have to walk super extra far this
week