BROWNIES ~ A GUEST POST BY H

I thought it would be wonderful if I could get my grandson to do a guest post while I get busy somewhere else. Lucky for me he was more than willing.

And it's a good thing he can bake and cook ~ even at the tender age of ten. And he isn't the only one. S can too while N is the creative writer and artist and Z is simply the baby. 

This is a little bit of art by them...mostly by N, the creative writer and artist ~ 

And I've only just realized that H, N and S have this great funny blog called Poptropical Adventures :D

Here is a video that I just have to share with you because I think it's quite brilliant....It's an ad for a special edition of  their comic strip series, Zo and Boe Spytime. The creator is N and the special effects are by H ~ Did I say they are creative?

My very lovely daughter, a super multi-tasker, not only home schools her children but she has, amazingly, taught them to cook and bake as well. Amoung a gazillion other things of course. 

My super talented and enthusiastic grandson H is only 10, the third of the 4 children, but he bakes like a pro (in my eyes). He plays soccer like a pro too (like his awesome dad). He's very, very smart, tooooo cute, very athletic and has an absolutely quirky sense of humour and will be going on to grade 5 this September (thoroughly my type of man). 

A few days ago H sent me an email all the way from the US informing me that he has grown a beard! A pair of disbelieving eyebrows and a scroll down later I saw the attached photo of himself ~ with a beard! Painted generously on! He looked totally weird. Suffice to say that I seriously cracked up and it took a whiley while before I got back together again (with a lot of help from all the King's men and all the King's horses), I gathered myself up and continued life.

While H played Spiderman.

Without further ado, let me introduce you to H, my sweetly funny and gloriously talented grandson with a recipe for some very, very, very delish brownies!

"Take it from here dearie" ..........

  
( Aside: being endlessly proud of H as I am I might also add that H is a great writer so this is H's write up verbatim. I know his mom and dad are dying to see what he has written :) Please do take time to read the recipe as well. You've got to love that sense of humour. 

Brownie photos courtesy of my grandkids.

 Hello everyone! 

this is actually my first time typing down a recipe. and I'm not Zurin. gasp. Well grandma let me make a post, and I think I'll introduce myself to you before I start writing down anything like recipes or anything. I'm a kid you know, so I can't reveal my full name, so just call me H. I'm Zurin's grandson. 

Now don't start thinking this is my first time ever baking, because I made many things before, cookies, pizza, shortbread, pancakes, and more! But the thing is, I don't want to be a chef, I just bake for the fun of it. Well, that is, if you think it's fun. I like the computer a lot more than baking, and I want to be a computer scientist in college, just like my mom was.
     

Well, let's get started baking! I found this recipe from allrecipes.com and I find it to be very easy. I already made it more than five times before. one of those times, we didn't have enough egg. so I think I used cornstarch with water as a substitute. And obviously, as I now know, it grew hard. but they were eatable. so please make sure you have eggs when you make this! Well, now to the recipe:
 
Yield: 24 brownies

Ingredients

1 oz (4 squares unsweetened baking chocolate)
3/4 cup butter
2 cups sugar
3 eggs
1 cup flour
*1 cup chopped pecans

preheat oven to 350. line a 13"x9" pan with aluminum foil. Place chocolate and butter in medium or large sized microwaveable bowl. push the butter's wraps aside, you'll need it later. Melt the butter and chocolate in microwave as soon as you see the butter melting (about 2 minutes). take it out and stir until chocolate is melted. then add sugar and stir well. then add eggs. then add flour and pecans. stir well. 

Hey, remember those butter wraps? well go ahead and get them....taps foot....Oh you're back! well wipe those wraps over the lined pan you lined earlier (grease the pan). Put the batter in the pan and smoothen it out. place in the oven and bake 30-35 minutes. bake it until when you stick a toothpick in it, it comes out clean or with fudgy crumbs on it. let it cool on a cooling rack for five minutes, then cut it. Scrumptious, delicious, crumby, fudgy, chewy delights will tempt you to take more when they touch your taste buds.

Although I have mentioned that I will be closing comments for the time being, however, for this very, very special post I will be opening the comment form just in case you all have something really, really sweet to say to H;). H will reply to you if you have any questions about the recipe too.

Thank you dearie for the most beautiful post in my world ~ 

Love & hugs 

Grandma