Jocelyns Chocolate Fudge Bars (fudge Mint Co Recipe
Yield: 1 ServingsRecipe by luhu.jp
Ingredients:
1 Stick: Butter,
2 ounce: Unsweetened Baking Chocolate,
Squares,
1 cup: Sugar,
2: Eggs,
1 cup: Flour,
1/2 tsp: Salt,
1/2 tsp: Baking Soda,
1/2 tsp: Vanilla Or Peppermint,
Extract,
1 cup: Chocolate Chips,
Glaze------,
1 cup: Powdered Sugar,
1 tbsp: Milk, or more
1/2 tsp: Peppermint Extract,
Directions:
Melt the butter and the unsweetened chocolate. (You can put them in a
stainless steel bowl and stick it in the oven while its preheating. )
When the bowl is cool, add the sugar, beat in the eggs, mix in the
flour, the salt, and the baking soda. Add the vanilla. Spread into a
greased jellyroll pan (that is, 11x17). It wont be trivial; youll
have to use a knife or something to spread it smoothly into all four
corners.
Sprinkle with the chocolate chips, and bake at 350 F for 8 minutes or
so. ("Bake until done. " When theyre done, they pull away from the
pan just a little bit and have a dull glossy look to them. )
Glaze: Mix up the ingredients. It should be like a glaze that will
pour, thickly. Add a couple of drops of food coloring if desired.
When the cookies come out of the oven, spread the glaze. Cool
slightly, and cut while still warm. (If you wait too long, the glaze
will crack when you try to cut the cookies. )
Notes: You can skip the glaze, if you like. (For example, you might
not want peppermint cookies, or you might want to use those miniature
baking M&Ms. ) If you dont glaze them but still want peppermint
chocolate cookies, use the peppermint instead of the vanilla. (Or in
addition to it, for a slightly different flavor but still good. )
This is Moms recipe. It was quick and easy enough that she could
make up a batch of cookies while getting breakfast on the table, when
one of us four kids piped up and said "By the way, its my turn to
bring cookies today. "
She also has an anecdote about one of our schoolkids being allergic to
oranges, so she made a batch with orange food coloring so he could
have something orange anyway. You could try the same trick for
Halloween cookies...
If you dont want them to be thin bar cookies, then use a smaller pan
(9x13 or 9x9) and bake them longer.
Okay, heres the "horror story" part. I got the recipe from my mom the
other day, and decided to make them up (sans mint & glaze) that
night. Id been reorganizing the kitchen lately, and had a bunch of
plastic canisters for all of my staples, but hadnt labeled
everything yet. I thought I had the flour. Well, it certainly wasnt
sugar, and I knew it wasnt the Krusteaz Deluxe Basic Cookie Mix, so
it had to be the flour, so I used it. There was something a little
odd about it - but Ive got unbleached flour, whole wheat flour,
graham flour, and cake flour, so I figured it had to be one of the
odd ones.
It wasnt. There was something grainy and a bit of an odd flavor to
the cookies. Can you say "Masa Harina"? Id used corn instead of
wheat flour!
My next door neighbor Selene, and my SOs daughter Maria, and her
little friend Devin like them, but nobody else will eat them.
I tried the recipe again tonight. I made the plain batch, no mint or
mint glaze, and used mini-M&Ms instead of the chocolate chips. Ive
tried them - theyre perfect in every way - and if I just imagine
them with peppermint, theyre exactly as I remember them.
A final footnote: I am quite serious about working to spread them all
the way to the corners. Itll be a thick batter, so just keep at it;
itll make a thin layer. Thats a good thing, because it means they
cook fast, so dont give up.
[P. S. At least thats how they turn out (thick and hard to spread
into the corners) when I make them, using the mixer. Your mileage may
vary, especially if youre using margarine.
Recipe By : "C. Baden"
Source from luhu.jp
stainless steel bowl and stick it in the oven while its preheating. )
When the bowl is cool, add the sugar, beat in the eggs, mix in the
flour, the salt, and the baking soda. Add the vanilla. Spread into a
greased jellyroll pan (that is, 11x17). It wont be trivial; youll
have to use a knife or something to spread it smoothly into all four
corners.
Sprinkle with the chocolate chips, and bake at 350 F for 8 minutes or
so. ("Bake until done. " When theyre done, they pull away from the
pan just a little bit and have a dull glossy look to them. )
Glaze: Mix up the ingredients. It should be like a glaze that will
pour, thickly. Add a couple of drops of food coloring if desired.
When the cookies come out of the oven, spread the glaze. Cool
slightly, and cut while still warm. (If you wait too long, the glaze
will crack when you try to cut the cookies. )
Notes: You can skip the glaze, if you like. (For example, you might
not want peppermint cookies, or you might want to use those miniature
baking M&Ms. ) If you dont glaze them but still want peppermint
chocolate cookies, use the peppermint instead of the vanilla. (Or in
addition to it, for a slightly different flavor but still good. )
This is Moms recipe. It was quick and easy enough that she could
make up a batch of cookies while getting breakfast on the table, when
one of us four kids piped up and said "By the way, its my turn to
bring cookies today. "
She also has an anecdote about one of our schoolkids being allergic to
oranges, so she made a batch with orange food coloring so he could
have something orange anyway. You could try the same trick for
Halloween cookies...
If you dont want them to be thin bar cookies, then use a smaller pan
(9x13 or 9x9) and bake them longer.
Okay, heres the "horror story" part. I got the recipe from my mom the
other day, and decided to make them up (sans mint & glaze) that
night. Id been reorganizing the kitchen lately, and had a bunch of
plastic canisters for all of my staples, but hadnt labeled
everything yet. I thought I had the flour. Well, it certainly wasnt
sugar, and I knew it wasnt the Krusteaz Deluxe Basic Cookie Mix, so
it had to be the flour, so I used it. There was something a little
odd about it - but Ive got unbleached flour, whole wheat flour,
graham flour, and cake flour, so I figured it had to be one of the
odd ones.
It wasnt. There was something grainy and a bit of an odd flavor to
the cookies. Can you say "Masa Harina"? Id used corn instead of
wheat flour!
My next door neighbor Selene, and my SOs daughter Maria, and her
little friend Devin like them, but nobody else will eat them.
I tried the recipe again tonight. I made the plain batch, no mint or
mint glaze, and used mini-M&Ms instead of the chocolate chips. Ive
tried them - theyre perfect in every way - and if I just imagine
them with peppermint, theyre exactly as I remember them.
A final footnote: I am quite serious about working to spread them all
the way to the corners. Itll be a thick batter, so just keep at it;
itll make a thin layer. Thats a good thing, because it means they
cook fast, so dont give up.
[P. S. At least thats how they turn out (thick and hard to spread
into the corners) when I make them, using the mixer. Your mileage may
vary, especially if youre using margarine.
Recipe By : "C. Baden"
Source from luhu.jp