Aztec Gold Brownies Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. In a bowl, combine crumbs, chocolate chips and pecans. Stir in milk until blended (batter will be stiff). Spread into a greased 8-in. square baking pan. , Bake 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack. Cut into bars.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°F
• Line 8-inch glass baking pan with foil, grease and flour.
• In a glass bowl, melt butter and chocolate in 10 seconds increments. If chocolate is well-grated, this should take about 40 seconds-stir after 30 seconds.
• Place sugar, cinnamon, espresso powder, and chipotle pepper in a mixing bowl and stir well.
• Put flour and cocoa in another bowl and mix well.
• Scrape chocolate into sugar mixture and beat on medium speed about 30 seconds.
• Scrape sides and bottom of bowl and beat another 20 seconds or so.
• Add eggs, beat to incorporate, scraping as needed.
• Add vanilla and stir to incorporate.
• Add half of flour mixture, and stir on low speed until mostly mixed it.
• Scrape bowl and add rest of flour, mixing until incorporated.
• Scrape bowl. Beat on medium high speed for about 45 seconds, or until mixture lightens visibly. This is to incorporate air, which is the only leavening in the batter.
• Scrape into prepared pan and bake at 325°F for 30-35 minutes.
• Allow to cool in pan for 15 minutes.
• Lift out foil and lay on a wire rack and allow to cool completely before cutting.
• If you cut them too soon, they will be gooey in the middle and crackle too much on the top and fall apart.
• They should be fudgy in the middle with a bit of a crispy crust on top.
• Take them over the top by sprinkling with edible gold leaf.

Steps:

• Cut 185g unsalted butter into small cubes and tip into a medium bowl. Break 185g dark chocolate into small pieces and drop into the bowl.
• Fill a small saucepan about a quarter full with hot water, then sit the bowl on top so it rests on the rim of the pan, not touching the water. Put over a low heat until the butter and chocolate have melted, stirring occasionally to mix them.
• Remove the bowl from the pan. Alternatively, cover the bowl loosely with cling film and put in the microwave for 2 minutes on High. Leave the melted mixture to cool to room temperature.
• While you wait for the chocolate to cool, position a shelf in the middle of your oven and turn the oven on to 180C/160C fan/gas 4.
• Using a shallow 20cm square tin, cut out a square of non-stick baking parchment to line the base. Tip 85g plain flour and 40g cocoa powder into a sieve held over a medium bowl. Tap and shake the sieve so they run through together and you get rid of any lumps.
• Chop 50g white chocolate and 50g milk chocolate into chunks on a board.
• Break 3 large eggs into a large bowl and tip in 275g golden caster sugar. With an electric mixer on maximum speed, whisk the eggs and sugar. They will look thick and creamy, like a milk shake. This can take 3-8 minutes, depending on how powerful your mixer is. You'll know it's ready when the mixture becomes really pale and about double its original volume. Another check is to turn off the mixer, lift out the beaters and wiggle them from side to side. If the mixture that runs off the beaters leaves a trail on the surface of the mixture in the bowl for a second or two, you're there.
• Pour the cooled chocolate mixture over the eggy mousse, then gently fold together with a rubber spatula. Plunge the spatula in at one side, take it underneath and bring it up the opposite side and in again at the middle. Continue going under and over in a figure of eight, moving the bowl round after each folding so you can get at it from all sides, until the two mixtures are one and the colour is a mottled dark brown. The idea is to marry them without knocking out the air, so be as gentle and slow as you like.
• Hold the sieve over the bowl of eggy chocolate mixture and resift the cocoa and flour mixture, shaking the sieve from side to side, to cover the top evenly.
• Gently fold in this powder using the same figure of eight action as before. The mixture will look dry and dusty at first, and a bit unpromising, but if you keep going very gently and patiently, it will end up looking gungy and fudgy. Stop just before you feel you should, as you don't want to overdo this mixing.
• Finally, stir in the white and milk chocolate chunks until they're dotted throughout.
• Pour the mixture into the prepared tin, scraping every bit out of the bowl with the spatula. Gently ease the mixture into the corners of the tin and paddle the spatula from side to side across the top to level it.
• Put in the oven and set your timer for 25 mins. When the buzzer goes, open the oven, pull the shelf out a bit and gently shake the tin. If the brownie wobbles in the middle, it's not quite done, so slide it back in and bake for another 5 minutes until the top has a shiny, papery crust and the sides are just beginning to come away from the tin. Take out of the oven.
• Leave the whole thing in the tin until completely cold, then, if you're using the brownie tin, lift up the protruding rim slightly and slide the uncut brownie out on its base. If you're using a normal tin, lift out the brownie with the foil. Cut into quarters, then cut each quarter into four squares and finally into triangles.
• They'll keep in an airtight container for a good two weeks and in the freezer for up to a month.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease bottom only of a 12/9 inch pan.
• BROWNIES: In a large bowl combine brownie mix, 1/4 cup of Bailey's, oil and eggs. Beat 50 strokes with spoon. Spread into greased pan.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 28 to 30 minutes or until set. Do not over bake. Cool one hour or until completely cooled.
• FROSTING: In a small bowl beat 1/2 cup butter until light and fluffy. Beat in powdered sugar, vanilla, 2 tablespoons Bailey's, and milk, adding enough milk for desired spreading consistency. Spread over cooled brownies.

Steps:

• Combine first ten ingredients in microwave safe dish.
• Microwave on high for 2 and 1/2 minutes.
• Stir in 1-2 T water if mixture becomes too dry.
• Microwave on high 2 and 1/2 to 3 minutes or till onions are tender crisp.
• Let stand 3 minutes.
• Stir in turkey.
• Microwave on high 10-13 minutes or til turkey is partially done, stirring once.
• Add tomatoes, beans, peppers and chocolate.
• Mix well.
• Microwave on medium for 40 minutes, stirring twice.
• Serve with sour cream, grated cheese, diced onions and tortilla chips.