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Here is part two in my series entitled “Babysitting and the art of distraction - cooking with kids”, which follows on from the kid-friendly pizza experience. This recipe is a sure fire winner. Where can one go wrong with chocolate and marshmallows? And let me just say that these are evil, wicked, nasty, horrible, disgusting, bad…but oooooh soooooo gooooood.

Rocky Road Brownies

1 cup chocolate chips (your choice of milk or dark)
1/2 cup unsalted butter, cut into pieces
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup plain flour
1 cup white sugar
Pinch of salt
2 large eggs
Miniature marshmallows, chocolate chips, flaked/slivered almonds and dried cranberries for decoration

Preheat oven to 180 degrees celsius, and place approximately 24 double layer patty cake papers on a cooking tray (…or you could do 12 muffin sized).

In a small bowl microwave 1 cup of chocolate chips and the butter at half power until melted (about 1 and a half minutes). Stir in the vanilla and set aside.

In another bowl add the flour, sugar and salt. Scrape in the melted chocolate mixture and stir to moisten. Add the eggs and mix well.

Using a spoon drop the mixture into the patty cake papers, filling them only half full.

Bake for 15 minutes and remove from the oven, allowing to cool for about 5 minutes (the idea is to cool the tray so the little kiddies don’t burn themselves whilst decorating!). But dont’ forget to leave the oven on as we’re not quite done yet!

Place about 3 mini marshmallows, a few choc chips, flaked/slivered almonds and cranberries on top of each brownie cup. Put back in the oven and bake for another 6 or 7 minutes, or until the marshmallows puff and begin to melt.

Cool before eating (if you can), although a warm one is just too irresistable.

Written by mellie on August 13th, 2006 | Tags: Uncategorized | Category: Uncategorized |  Print This Post |  Email This Post | Subscribe to comments | Leave a comment | Trackback URL