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Sweet Mood

February 8, 2011 Comment : 1

When I need to cheer up, I like to bake. Does anyone else do that?! For me, cooking is therapeutic…and by cooking, I clearly mean baking sweets. My expertise is pretty much limited to baking cookies, cakes, brownies, etc. I don’t do a lot of actual cooking, unless it involves tofu. Weird, I know.

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Well, today was one of those baking days…and I totally just made this stuff up as I went along. I thought it turned out okay, but the real test is getting other people to try it. After all, I’m the girl who loves tofu and protein bars that have that protein “taste” to them…you protein bar eaters know what I mean. My family….ehh, we don’t all have the same food preferences. So we’ll see how these sweets go over 😉

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I started with Black Bean Brownies. I saw a can of black beans and got inspired…I’ve read a lot about these brownies on different blogs and I’ve always been curious about how they taste. So I created my own recipe as I went along…..and I think they’re edible. Good enough for me. haha. The only thing that would have made them better would be more sweetness. The cocoa powder made them a little bitter!

 
Then…because baking one thing is never enough, I decided to bake something else…not like we needed more sweets around the house or anything. Again, I just threw things together…I tend to do that a lot. Luckily, these turned out pretty good. Like a cross between a cookie bar and blond brownies. I added dried cranberries, walnuts, and butterscotch chips to the batter…really added to the flavor. And calories. haha 😉
Luckily for me, I am not much for eating desserts…so I can bake all day long and not worry about being tempted to stuff myself! The only downside to baking is this:

-xoxo

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