Eggs Over Evie: Cakes and Brownies

      If you have a sweet tooth. Then today's your lucky day! I have the recipe for a very special cake and sugar brownies! Hope you like them, Enjoy!

Powdered Sugar Brownies

Ingredients:
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter
3 squares unsweetened chocolate
3 eggs
1/2 cups sugar
1/2 cup flour
dash salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
powdered sugar

How to Bake

Preheat oven to 300 degrees F. and grease an 8-inch square baking dish. Line bottom of dish with wax paper. Combine butter and chocolate over low heat or melt at low microwave setting. Beat eggs until thick and foamy. Then beat sugar into eggs thoroughly. Blend in flour. Add vanilla, salt, and chocolate mixture. Beat well. Pour brownie batter into dish; bake for 45 minutes. Brownies will be sticky and look underdone. Turn out immediately onto a fresh sheet of waxed paper. Take paper off bottom of brownies and cut while hot. They will tear slightly. When cool, roll in powdered sugar. Makes 24 small brownies.

Kitchen Tip #13

Chocolate has some nutritional benefits

for humans. But beware: It contains

a chemical called theobromine that

can be poisonous to dogs!

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I have no idea why this cake has such a name, but just go with it okay? Okay. Here goes:

Never say no to offers of help.

~ Tamara Weiss

"Lemony PTA Cake-Walk Cake"

Ingredients
3 sifted cake flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup butter, softened
2 cups granulated sugar
1&1/4 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 teaspoon lemon oil
5 eggs
2/3 cup buttermilk
1/4 cup finely shredded lemon peel
1/2 cup lemon juice
1&1/2 cup chopped pecans, toasted
For glaze
1/4 cup granulated sugar
2 tablespoons lemon juice

How to Bake

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour a 10-inch Bundt pan. Set pan aside. ~ In medium bowl, combine cake flour, baking powder, and salt; set aside. In a large bowl, beat butter with an electric mixer on high speed for 30 secs. Beat in sugar, vanilla, and lemon oil until fluffy and light, about 4 mins. Add eggs, one at a time, beating 30 seconds after each addition. Alternately add the flour mixture and the buttermilk to the butter mixture, beating on low speed after each addition and starting and ending with flour, until combined. Stir in lemon peel and lemon juice. Stir in pecans. Spoon batter into prepared pan. ~ Bake for one hour, until toothpick inserted near center comes out clean and top springs bake when touched lightly. Let cake stand for 10 minutes to cool. ~ Glaze: In a small sauce pan, heat and stir the 1/4 cup sugar and 2  tablespoons lemon juice until sugar dissolves. Invert cake onto wire rack set over a shallow baking pan. Poke holes on top of cake with toothpick. Spoon Glaze over cake. Cool completely before cutting.

Kitchen Tip #14

Top get the most juice out of a lemon, roll

it on the counter, under your palm, for

a full minute before cutting.

      Okay that's all for now. By the way, the next entry will be the last you hear of Eggs Over Evie. :( I know, i'm sad too. But there will be good news coming your way, so keep reading!