Dense Brownies with Cake Batter Frosting

Dense Brownies with Cake Batter Frosting

Job hunting is stressful.  I thought that college was hard, but being a college graduate and not being able to find a job is harder.

I’ve applied to what feels like billions of jobs online, written and rewritten about a hundred cover letters, and revised my resume around fifty times.  And still, I can’t find a job.

When you go through school your entire life, you get taught to “go to college so you can get a good job.”  Well, I went to college and I’ve been graduated for 3 months now, and still haven’t been able to find a job.

I think that college is a great concept, however, I think it’s completely overpriced ($50,00 for 4 years?!? Get real!) and not completely necessary.  For example, I didn’t get a teaching degree, I’m a Public Relations major, but I’m substitute teaching right now.  I don’t know if you know this, but you don’t get any training to be a substitute teacher and you don’t have to have a teaching degree, just 60 hours of college credit. I learned by walking into a classroom unprepared and teaching myself how to teach.  And you know what?  I’m doing just fine.

Anyway, like I said, I have my degree and I’m still searching for a job.  I know an opportunity will arrive when it’s supposed to, but waiting is difficult.

To say the least, it’s a tad bit stressful.

So, to calm myself, I bake and bake and bake, which is why I get to share these brownies with you today.  So, I guess not being able to find a job is all that bad. ;)

 

The best cake batter frosting

chewy brownies with crinkly top

dense, chewy brownies with cake batter frosting

fudge brownies with cake mix frosting

This perfect brownie recipe is adapted from The Black Apple.  Good luck trying not to eat all of the frosting before putting it on the brownies.  Also, I had some leftover cake mix, so I mixed about 1/4 cup cake mix with 3 tablespoons butter and swirled it into the top of the brownies.

Dense Brownies with Cake Batter Frosting
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Ingredients
  • Brownies:
  • 1 stick butter (8 tbsp)
  • ½ cup brown sugar
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • ¾ cup clour
  • ½ cup cocoa powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla
  • Frosting:
  • 2 cups confectioners’ sugar
  • 1 cup butter, softened
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • ½ cup cake mix of your choice

Instructions
  1. Preheat Oven to 350.
  2. Melt butter in pot over stove.
  3. Remove butter from heat, let cool about a minute, then add sugars and mix well.
  4. Add eggs, flour, cocoa powder, salt, and vanilla, and mix well.
  5. Line and grease an 8×8 inch baking dish and pour in batter.
  6. Bake 20-25 minutes. If a toothpick comes out clean, it’s finished.
  7. While cooling, make the frosting:
  8. In a mixer, beat the butter and vanilla until fluffy. Slowly add in the confectioners’ sugar and then the cake mix until fully incorporated and fluffy.
  9. Frost cooled brownies and enjoy.

 

the perfect brownies with cake batter frosting

Thick Brownies with Minty Oreo Frosting

thick brownies with minty oreo frosting

Who doesn’t love mint? And Oreo’s? And thick brownies?  And frosting?

Okay, well there’s probably a chance that some of you don’t like some of those things buuuuttt, I’m risking it anyway for this awesome dessert.

You guys know I wouldn’t steer you wrong, right?  I hope so, because I wouldn’t.

If you love Thin Mints, then you’ll love these brownies x10.  They’re just like a Thin Mint with extra crunch, extra chocolate, and extra fudge.

bombshell brownies with thin mint frosting

fudgy brownies with oreo frosting

The thick, fudgy, gooey brownies are adapted from Brooke’s Best Bombshell Brownies.

Thick Brownies with Minty Oreo Frosting
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Serves: 24
 

Ingredients
  • Brownies:
  • 1 cup butter, melted
  • 3 cups white sugar
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
  • 4 eggs
  • 1½ cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
  • Frosting:
  • 1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
  • 3 cups powdered sugar
  • 1 Tablespoons milk (or enough to get to desired consistency)
  • 1 teaspoon mint extract
  • 15 Oreos, crushed

Instructions
  1. Brownies:
  2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a 9×13 baking dish.
  3. Combine the melted butter, sugar, and mint extract in a large bowl. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each, until thoroughly blended.
  4. Sift the flour, cocoa powder, and salt in a bowl. Gradually stir flour mixture into the egg mixture until blended. Spread the batter evenly into the prepared baking dish.
  5. Bake in preheated oven until an inserted toothpick comes out clean, 35 to 40 minutes. Remove, and cool in pan.
  6. Once cool, melt the chocolate chips and spread over the brownies. Let that cool and make the frosting.
  7. Frosting:
  8. In a mixer, cream butter, vanilla and milk.
  9. Slowly add in powdered sugar until fluffy.
  10. With the mixer on low, mix in crushed oreos until well combined.
  11. Frost the brownies once the chocolate layer has hardened.
  12. Enjoy!

 

brownies that taste like thin mints with oreo frosting

One Bowl Brownies with Almond-Chocolate Buttercream Frosting

Want to hear how big of a dummy I am?

Kellen and I recently had our two year anniversary, so I thought I’d make him something sweet. My plan was to make a layered heart brownie cake. You might be wondering why the brownie in the picture is only one layer.


Let me tell you what you should probably never do.

You should probably never use plastic cookie cutters as molds in a 350 degree oven.

They might melt.

Just one of my many kitchen failures.  It happens!

Luckily, part of it was salvaged and the brownies are not faulty like their baker.  The recipe is actually one of my favorite brownie recipes out there.  They’re almost fudge-like, but still a bit crunchy.  And it only takes one bowl to make them.  Perfection if you ask me.

Please share your kitchen disaster stories so I don’t feel alone. 




One Bowl Brownies with Almond-Chocolate Buttercream Frosting
Recipe from: All Recipes

Ingredients

  • 4 (1 ounce) squares unsweetened chocolate
  • 3/4 cup butter
  • 1 1/2 cups white sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 cup all-purpose flour

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C).
  2. Microwave chocolate and butter or margarine in large bowl at high for 2 minutes or until butter or margarine is melted.
  3. Stir until chocolate is melted. Stir in sugar. Mix in eggs and vanilla. Stir in flour.
  4. Spread in greased 13 x 9 inch pan. Bake for 35 minutes (do not overbake).
  5. Frost with this frosting.