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People love eating brownies. And you're going to love making them with Baked Chicago's Simply Decadent Brownies Cookbook as your guide. Author Harvey Morris shares tried and true - yet unusually decadent - brownie recipes that will turn on the taste buds of your family and friends. These recipes are easy to follow and simple to execute, with each recipe fitting on a single page and without creating a sink full of dirty pots and pans!

Your guests will literally squeal with delight when you serve them the Bacon & Salted Caramel Brownies or the Marshmallow Pretzel Crunch Brownies. Your family will beg you to make the Deconstructed S'Mores Brownies or Chipotle Chocolate Brownies for Sunday dinner. And when your significant other tastes the Dark Chocolate & Raspberry Liqueur Brownies, well let's just say you'll be calling the shots.

Filled with rich, colorful photographs and invaluable tips (aka Brownie Points), Baked Chicago's Simply Decadent Brownies Cookbook is a collection of deliciously simple recipes that every home cook will turn to again and again.

Featured Recipe: Bourbon, Bacon & Pecan Brownies

Ingredients

6 slices of bacon

2 c all-purpose flour

1 t salt

10 oz dark chocolate, chopped

1/2 c pecans, chopped

2 T unsweetened cocoa powder

1/2 c butter

4 eggs

1 c granulated sugar

1/2 c dark brown sugar

3 T bourbon

Directions

In medium skillet, cook the bacon until crispy. Reserve 1/4 cup of the bacon fat and set aside. Let bacon cool and chop roughly. Set aside.

Preheat oven to 350° F. Lightly grease bottom of a 9x9-inch baking pan with butter or shortening.

In medium bowl, mix together flour, cocoa powder and salt. Set aside.

In large heatproof bowl set on top of small saucepan of simmering water, melt dark chocolate and butter. Stir constantly, until smooth. Remove from heat and cool slightly.

With electric mixer on medium-low speed, beat eggs, granulated sugar, and brown sugar until frothy (about 1 minute). Beat in melted chocolate mixture, bourbon and reserved bacon fat. Fold in flour mixture and pecans, just until combined.

Spread the batter in the prepared baking pan. Sprinkle bacon on top. Bake for 35 to 40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out nearly clean. Cool completely, about 1 hour. Cut into 4 rows by 4 rows to make 16 brownies.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00A5V6VYI
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Baked Chicago (November 10, 2012)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 10, 2012
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2657 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 72 pages
Reviewer: L. Mountford
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Brownie Lovers - this one is for YOU!
Review: The keyword in the title is "Decadent"! There are some stunning brownie recipes here!I was offered a copy of this small cookbook to examine and review, and, being the unrepentant chocoholic that I am, I jumped at the chance. And, being an unrepentant chocoholic, I usually have the ingredients on hand to whip up a quick batch of brownies.My first foray with this book was the recipe for Dark Chocolate and Raspberry Liqueur Brownies -- quick, easy, no brainer! These are scrumptious dark chocolate brownies with dark chocolate chips plus the addition of raspberry liqueur --- what's not to love?? Rich, yummy!Next were the Cherry Cabernet Brownies -- I love dried cherries anyway (I put them in bran muffins -- heaven!), so combining them with cabernet in a dark chocolate brownie sounded like a match made in heaven. Yes, it was.I now have a list of other brownies from this little book that I'll be trying over the next several weeks (next on the list are the Dark Chocolate Flourless brownies for a potluck party this weekend).It's worth highlighting the fact that the proceeds from the sales of this book will be donated to two worthy Chicago causes.Very nice addition to my cookbook collection!

Reviewer: Kindle Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: If you love Brownies buy this book!
Review: Well, now that I have gotten past the buttermilk brownies! I made those a few times and if you love a cakie moist brownie then you have to try this recipe. The Cappuccino brownies are thick and fudgie, which I also love in a brownies you can taste the hint of cinnamon and nutmeg. Now for those Peanut butter brownie, to quote the guy's that I gave them a taste "wow". That crunchy peanut butter and the chocolate always will be a perfect match, they are also really an unbelievably light brownie. Now for my most recent batch of brownies out of the oven Dark chocolate and rasperry liqueur instead of a raspberry liqueur I used Baileys Irish cream you could smell that Baileys as they came out the oven. There is no mistaken that there is Baileys in those brownies, delicious! (They mentioned chocolate chunks in the recipe but don't really say what to do with them in the recipe I assumed fold them in.)My next batch will be ginger bread brownies, my kitchen smells amazing at the moment.If you love brownies this is a great book, and the recipes are easy and quick to mix up. So easy to mix up I never turned on the kitchenaid mixer.I also plan to convert some of these to gluten free for my mother, we will see how that goes. The small amount of flour used in the recipes make them good candidates for converting.

Reviewer: Patricia H
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Many delicious and decadent brownie recipes
Review: A wide variety of brownie recipes that are easy to understand, not overly complicated and certainly deliver on the gourmet expectations of the book !

Reviewer: Pthorn
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Holidays Made Happier
Review: I am a bit of a cookbook addict and I must say this is one of the best cookbooks out there! Harvey has created so many mouthwatering recipes that it is very difficult to decide which one is a favorite. The recipes are very easy to follow and I absolutely love the touch of the "brownie points" scattered throughout the book. I do not normally write reviews on websites but this cookbook impressed me so much that I wanted to share my excitement. I plan on purchasing more to give as Christmas gifts or hostess gifts. I thought it would be nice to put together all of the ingredients for a recipe and put those along with a copy of the book in a gift basket. An added plus to purchasing the cookbook is the fact that all net proceeds go to the Greater Chicago Food Depository and PAWS Chicago. In my opinion, that is true holiday spirit. Cheers!

Reviewer: PUGSLEY
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: ok
Review: to start though it has some ok recipes you can find better on the web. tried one recipe and found you had to adjust it to dry.

Reviewer: Deena
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Huge Variety of Scrumptous Yummy Brownies
Review: I never knew there could be such a huge variety of scrumptious, yummy brownies. Since I love peanut butter, dark chocolate and toffee I've already made three of the recipes for the holidays: Peanut Butter Whirled Brownies, Dark Chocolate & Raspberry Liquor Brownies and the Toffee Biscotti. All were consumed real fast at my parties. So I've decided to save a couple instead of serving them all at once, so I have some left for the next day.The pictures in this book are so tantalizing and make you want to make the brownies. The biggest plus in getting this cookbook is that all net proceeds go to the Greater Chicago Food Depository and PAWS Chicago. What a great way to contribute to these organizations by buying the best brownie cookbook available on the market. Thanks so much Harvey for providing out-of-this world easy recipes that had my friends raving about the desserts I served them.

Reviewer: jastenzel
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: So delicious you'll want to share!
Review: Love, love, love the Bourbon, Bacon & Pecan brownies! (Yes, bourbon and bacon!) These brownies were so moist and chocolatey with a hint of bourbon and a hit of salt from the bacon to finish off each bite. So delicious you'll want to share these with friends and family! I have tried three of the recipes so far and they have all been delightful. I loved the idea that the cookbook was supporting two wonderful charities so I purchased three. I kept one copy for myself, filled a tin with an assortment of the three recipes I'd tried and a copy of the cookbook and gave as a gift in a family gift exchange, and gave the third copy to my sister-in-law who hosted our family party! Everyone was asking where they could purchase a copy so I directed them to Amazon.com. Happy baking!!!

Reviewer: M. Poller
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: looks good
Review: I've been baking brownies since I was a girl and when I lived on Chicago's south side, I loved a frosted brownie in a store for which I'VE never found the recipe. That recipe is not here either, but there are s ome very interesting brownies and also some that dont interest me. The ones I'd like to try are: turtle brownies, butterscotch brownies, buttermilk brownies, german chocolate, dark chocolate flourless, brownie cookies, cookie crunch. Some others don't appeal to me but they do seem unusual such as: banana cream brownies, root beer, pumpkin pecan, gingerbread, chipote, apple caramel, toffee shortbread, bacon and salted caramel, bourbon, bacon and pecan, stout glazed brownies. If you are into brownie receipes, this is a good book to go through.

Reviewer: Eliana
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Sharing delicious recipes and helping people in need is simply wonderful formula. Just a perfect re cipe for a better world!