Super Fudge Brownies

If you are a chocolate lover try these.

Preheat Oven: 325

Ingredients:

• One stick melted butter
• 1/4c vegetable oil
• 2 large eggs
• 1 1/4c sugar
• 3/4c dark chocolate cocoa powder
• 1 tsp vailla
• 3/4c All Purpous Flour
• 1/2 to 3/4 or a 12oz bag of dark dark chocolate chips
• 1c walnuts

Directions:

Combine sugar, cocoa powder and flour in a large mixing bowl. Stir in eggs, vanilla, butter, and oil and mix until smooth. Fold in chocolate chips and walnuts.

Bake in an 8in round or 8x8in square nonstick baking pan.

Bake: 30-35min until tooth pick comes out of the center almost clean and allow to cool completely before cutting. Enjoy!

Peanut Butter Cookies with Chocolate Chips!

I LOVE cookies but peanut butter have never been my favorite variety. Mostly because I like cookies that are cooked on the outside and still soft and chewy in the middle. Usually peanut butter cookies are flat, until now. I have finally mastered the peanut butter cookie. As usual I added chocolate because, lets face it, everything is better with a little chocolate. So if you are in the mood for some easy, yummy peanut butter cookies give these a try. The trick it using honey roasted and plain peanut butter. I like the natural kind that you mash your self at the store. Also, for the cookies to keep their shape while baking and not turn into flat biscuits chill the dough in the fridge for a few hours of overnight before baking.

Ingredients:
2 sticks butter, room temp
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup granulated sugar
2 eggs
1 c honey roasted peanut butter
1/2 cup peanut butter
2 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp vanilla extract
pinch of salt

Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350°F
- Mix butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla, baking soda, and salt until smooth
- Stir in peanut butter a little at a time and combine until smooth
- Slowly mix in flour
- Add chocolate chips
- Chill dough in the fridge for several hours or overnight
- Shape into balls about the size of gulf balls
- Bake for about 12min
- Enjoy!

Dark Chocolate Cherry Brownies

I have been trying to pay attention to what I eat. Part of my effort has included cutting most sugar out of my daily diet. I say most because I believe in balance. Every now and then a girl needs a little chocolate. Lets face it, if I completely tried to cut all deserts out of my diet it would probably take a little over a week for me to end up sitting on the kitchen floor eating an entire cake on my own. So for the past 2 months I have been letting myself have desert once a week. This gives me something to look forward to. When I am disciplined during the week and resist the urge to eat sweets I feel like I am earning my weekend desert at which point I get to go big and not feel guilty. These brownies were inspired during a bike ride on Sunday afternoon where I road a little to far with no snacks. During one particularly hard hill climb my boss happened to drive by cheering. Luckly his sweet little girl was nice enough to share her organic gummy fish with me. Seriously those fish saved me. Needless to say I was thinking about my end of the week desert the entire way home. So here is my weekend, no guilt, go big desert:

Dark Chocolate Cherry Brownies with Walnuts

Preheat Oven: 350

Ingredients:
- 1/2 c butter
- 3 ounces unsweetened chocolate, coarsely chopped
- 1 c sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2/3 c all-purpose flour
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 c chopped walnuts (optional)
- 1 c frozen, fresh or dried cherries (if you use dried then about 20min before you start to mix soak them in water so they rehydrate)
- 1/2 to 3/4 c dark chocolate chips (the quantity depends on how much you love chocolate)

Directions:
- Grease you baking pan (either 8x8x2" or 9x9x2")
- In a medium pan melt butter and unsweetened chocolate over low heat, stirring constantly. Remove from heat and let cool
- Stir sugar into cooled chocolate and butter
- Add the eggs one at a time beating until combined then stir in vanilla
- In a separate bowl combine flour and baking soda
- Add flour mixture to chocolate mixture and stir until combined
- Fold in nuts, dark chocolate chips, and cherries

Bake about 30-35min (until a cake tester or toothpick goes into and comes out of the brownies cleanly)