Baking | the121life

Hello, hello, hello!

I don’t know about you, but I cannot stress enough how amazing this weather has been! Today is hands down gorgeous, and supposedly the forecast is going to be pretty nice over this next week. I love this weather SO much, that it actually puts me into a mood to bake.. I mean, I love baking as it is, but this weather makes me just want to bake all day and all night, seriously! And you know, last night I did just that. I have been wanting to bake a little something for our volleyball girls so last night I headed to the store and picked up a few items, came back to the house and started backing around 10 and finished at 1130. This dessert will make you fall in LOVE, and if it doesn’t it will come real close! The correct name for these brownies are Slutty Brownies, now I am not too fond of the name, so let’s just call them TheBomb.com Brownies.

If you are still interested in baking these, keep on reading. 🙂

First things first, you will need a few ingredients that you might even have in your kitchen! You can use homemade cookie or brownie batter or just go the quick way like I did. The main reason why I didn’t make homemade batter is because.. like I said it was 10 pm and I had to wake up at 7 am this morning, time was definitely of the essence! These are all of the ingredients that you will need, plus oil, margarine and water.

I lined the 9×13′ cake pan with foil – this will help tremendously when you transfer the brownie to the cutting board to cut the brownies into pieces PLUS…can we say easy pan cleanup!

1) Prepare the cookie batter (home or pre-made). Once the cookie batter is mixed, spread it onto your foil – this is your bottom layer of the brownie.

2) Place Oreos on top of your chocolate chip cookie layer. Don’t worry about the cracked Oreos – just continue placing them on top. Super simple!

3) Next up: Throw on some marshmallows, make it rain!

4) Prepare your brownie batter and spread it over the marshmallows; this will be your fourth layer of goodness! Don’t worry about trying to cover every marshmallow 🙂

5) Bake at 375 for 45 minutes… once it’s completed this should be your final product. Ready? 1, 2, 3 DROOL.

I suggest letting your brownie cool for a bit (15 minutes or so). While you let it cool, fill a cup with room temperature water. Between each cut through the brownie, dip your knife into the cold water and cut…. so its dip into water, cut, etc. This will help give your brownie clean cuts!

Voila! Here is the inside of the brownie. It looks amazing and I promise it IS nothing but amazing!

This is my all-time favorite dessert! What is yours?

Thanks for reading and have a blessed Sunday!

Elizabeth

Hey everyone! Yes, I said it… Happy HallowThanksMas (*see below for definition) – do we even know what holiday we are celebrating anymore? I would like to point out that Tarjay ALREADY has their Christmas section out and ready for purchase! What! Why! I wish we could just enjoy one holiday/season at a time, don’t you think that would alleviate the stress level that the majority of people share in? It almost makes the holidays tasteless. My family and I skip over Halloween parties, but of course we own costumes – playing dress up is fun for work/school events, etc.! Thanksgiving for us is all about family drama, food and football – if that isn’t All-American, I am not sure what is! Can anyone else relate? Christmas is more of a sentimental time for our family where we continue to honor our Lord Jesus Christ, and share in much less family drama, much more fun and cake pops! Speaking of cake pops.. I will have to post a tutorial/recipe on my cake pops because they are the bomb.com. I understand that most people do not say ‘the bomb.com’, but I do. 🙂 Are there any other tutorials/recipes y’all would be interested in seeing posted? Baking and I – we are best friends, in case you hadn’t heard!

So fall/winter is not much for where I am from. I live in the great state of Texas, and uh…. our winters are almost non-existent. Our ‘cold weather’ is somewhere in the 40s and that is if we are fortunate enough to see that number! You can bet your bank account that at the feel of 60 degrees, girls are walking around with scarves, boots and a hot Starbucks drink in hand. Yes, yes and YES I am one of those girls – well when it is in the 50s I am one of those girls..now the Starbucks drink only makes an appearance on my cheat days (Sat/Sun). We Texas women LONG to be like you northern ladies all bundled up in cute winter apparel even though we have no real reason to wear any of it because… it’s not like it snows down here! It’s cute nonetheless, just let us. Please?

Total Random Thought: I wanted to mention a site that is near and dear to my heart. I am usually on this website hmmm three times maybe even four times a week. I have a nerd side to me (don’t we all?), and this website provides me with a ton of information that otherwise would’ve taken me longer to find.

http://www.city-data.com/forum/

This website is an information portal in the form of a forum for the major cities, all states, countries and even has a ‘General Forum’ area. Has anyone else ever utilized City Data? I have been a member for a while, and am constantly up to date with interesting information because of this website. The power of the internet!

*Urbandictionary’s definition:

HallowThanksMas: “Is the holiday celebrating the most wonderful time of the year, October through December. It is a time of great warmth, sharing, parties, and of great American commercialism. People complain about overlapping holidays, but why? The distinction between the three major holidays is only becoming less clear. Embrace it as HallowthanksMas! It’s certainly not going to disappear. It’s a great excuse to eat, drink and be merry for three months straight! Each month is a celebration of its respective holidays, and seeing decorations and stores fully stocked should get our creative juices flowing; food, friends, parties and decorations are all a part of the holidays. Let’s face it, HallowthanksMas is here to stay, and I say God Bless It. And God Bless Us, everyone!”

I hope you all enjoyed this bit of Elizabeth 🙂

Talk to y’all soon!

Elizabeth