Monday, February 25, 2013

Challenge: beer, marshmallows and pretzels

I went camping this weekend. It doesn't really matter why, but I did. Around the campfire, someone brought up marshmallow's and pretzels - I said beer, marshmallows and pretzels would be SO good together. Everyone else disagreed with me...

Introducing: beer, marshmallow and pretzel brownies.
* These are SO good and SO soft. You are welcome, ahead of time.

Ingredients:
3.5 oz of semi sweet chocolate, chopped and melted
1 stick butter, melted/browned
4 eggs
1 cup white sugar
1 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa
1 cup flour
2 tsp. vanilla extract
1/2 cup stout (I used Guinness)
1 1/2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips (divided: 1 cup, 1/2 cup)
2 cups mini marshmallows
2 cups pretzels, crunched into small pieces

Steps:
Preheat oven to 350.
Stir together cocoa powder and flour.
Beat together eggs and sugars until thick (about 1 minute by hand).
Mix in half of flour mixture, and stir.
Add in stout, more flour mixture, and vanilla extract. Stir until blended.
Mix in 1 cup of chocolate chips.
Pour into greased 9x13 pan. Cook for 35 minutes.
Top brownies with marshmallows, chocolate chips and pretzels.
Cook in 2 minute increments, up to 10 minutes, until marshmallows are browned.
Let cool completely (I let my cool for 4 hours, otherwise the marshmallow is too gooey to cut.)
Enjoy my Challenge Brownies