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Sunday, March 22, 2009

Katherine Hepburn's Brownies with Reese's Peanut Butter Cups



Catching up with the posts (a bit)! I made these not too long ago. Inspired by Katharine Hepburn's brownie recipe included in Dorie Greenspan's Baking: From My Home to Yours and my undying love for Reese's Peanut Butter Cups... I decided to combine the two to create a Delicious dessert MONSTER. The result... very good... Especially after a day or more just like every brownie recipe I've ever made... this seems to be a given with homemade from-scratch brownies. The cinnamon and the espresso flavor were quite pronounced, and they were nice and moist and tender, yet on the sturdy/not-going-to-fall-into-crumbly-bits side. Although we enjoyed them thoroughly, I have to say they were not my absolute favorite brownie recipe so far (but that didn't stop us from eating the whole pan within days). I also think that with the espresso and cinnamon flavors, the peanut butter cups fell into the background a bit. I will try the Peanut Butter Cup mix-in again but perhaps with a simpler brownie recipe.



Katharine Hepburn's Brownies with slight alterations from Dorie Greenspan's Baking: From My Home to Yours
Ingredients:
1/4 cup all purpose flour
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp salt
1 stick unsalted butter
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 1/2 tsp espresso powder
2 eggs
1 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
4 ozs semisweet chocolate chips
9 miniature Reese's peanut butter cups, chilled in the freezer for at least 1/2 hour

Directions:
1. Preheat your oven to 325 and butter an 9 inch sqaure baking pan. Line the buttered pan with parchment and re-grease the parchment paper. Lightly dust greased dishwith flour.
2. In a small mixing bowl, combine the flour, cinnamon and salt.
3. Chop the peanut butter cups roughly and set back in the freezer.
4. In a medium saucepan melt the butter over low heat. Once it begins to melt, sift in cocoa powder and espresso.
5. Stir until the butter is completely melted and the espresso and cocoa powder have completely combined.
6. Remove from the heat and allow to cool for ~ 3 minutes
7. Add the eggs one at a time to the butter cocoa mixture and beat just to combine.
8. Stir in the sugar and vanilla, do not overmix.
9. Whisk in the dry ingredients, followed by the chocolate chips. Gently fold in the chopped peanut butter cups.
10. Pour into the prepared baking dish and bake for 30 - 35 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.
11. Allow to cool on baking rack in pan for at least 30 minutes before removing them from the baking pan, or allow to cool completely in the pan (it is up to you... I generally allow them to cool all the way in the baking dish, though this adds some extra baking time to the brownies possibly overcooking/drying them out).

5 comments:

Helen said...

hmm they look amazing!

Sara said...

These look SO good, I love peanut butter cups. What a great idea to put them in brownies!

A said...

looks amazing. I love mixing peanut butter cups into anything I can.

Ingrid_3Bs said...

Your brownies also looks nice and fudgy.

On Tuesday I also made brownies stuffed with PB cups and PB chips. While I'm not crazy about PB or chocolate on their own I seriously love them together! They were for 30 7th graders so I cheated and started with brownie mixes!
~ingrid

Elyse said...

MMm, these brownies look totally delicious and fudgy. And, I just adore that you added PB cups. I mean, brownies are divine on their own, but adding those cups takes them to new levels. They look so good!

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