{"id":719,"date":"2013-01-02T06:05:06","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T14:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/?p=719"},"modified":"2013-01-02T06:10:44","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T14:10:44","slug":"1990s-blog-york-sensational-brownie-recipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/?p=719","title":{"rendered":"1990s blog: York Sensational Brownie Recipe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This recipe introduced me to the convenience of online access. Online access to recipes, <em>my own<\/em> recipes. I was at work, thinking of which cookie recipes to make for an upcoming TA meeting. I thought: &#8220;I want to make those brownies with York Peppermint Patties. Oh, but I don&#8217;t have any peppermint patties at home, how many do I need to buy?&#8221; And I remembered that I had uploaded that recipe to my cookie web page (my &#8220;1990s blog&#8221;). Yay! How convenient to have my recipes online.<\/p>\n<p>And perhaps, just perhaps, that is what this whole cooking blog is about. A way to access my own recipes. (Although right now, I also use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dropbox<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/iwork\/pages\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pages<\/a> to access my recipes on my devices, but I digress\u2026)<\/p>\n<p>These rich brownies are really good, and a little unusual. They were always a hit at TA meetings, and with any coworkers who happened by.<\/p>\n<h2>York Sensational Brownie Recipe<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>1 1\/2 cups margarine, melted<\/li>\n<li>3\u00a0cups sugar<\/li>\n<li>5 eggs<\/li>\n<li>1 tablespoon vanilla<\/li>\n<li>2\u00a0cups flour<\/li>\n<li>1\u00a0cup unsweetened cocoa powder<\/li>\n<li>1 teaspoon baking powder<\/li>\n<li>1\u00a0teaspoon salt<\/li>\n<li>24 small (1 1\/2&#8243;) York Peppermint Patties\u00ae, unwrapped<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mix butter, sugar, and vanilla. Beat in eggs until well blended; add vanilla. Stir together the flour, cocoa, baking powder, and salt, then add to the butter-sugar-egg mixture and blend well. (Note that these are made with melted butter. I think I usually just melted the butter in a largish sauce pan, then added the rest of the ingredients and stirred by hand. No need to get out the stand mixer for this recipe.)<\/p>\n<p>Grease a 13x9x2\u2033 pan. Turn oven to 350\u02da.<\/p>\n<p>Reserve 2 cups of the batter; set aside. Spread the remaining batter in prepared pan. Arrange peppermint patties in a single layer over batter, about 1\/2\u2033 apart. Spread reserved 2 cups batter over patties.<\/p>\n<p>Bake at 350\u00b0 for 50-55 minutes or until brownies begin to pull away from sides of pan. (Do not overcook.) Cool completely in pan on wire rack.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"cookies\" alt=\"cookies graphic\" src=\"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/cookies.gif\" width=\"73\" height=\"80\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Please refer to my <a title=\"Cookie Recipe Basics\" href=\"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/?p=642\">Cookie Recipe Basics<\/a> to make sure your cookies turn out!<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Read the <a title=\"1990s blog: Introduction\" href=\"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/?p=632\">introduction to my 1990s cooking blog<\/a> for background information.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This recipe introduced me to the convenience of online access. Online access to recipes, my own recipes. I was at work, thinking of which cookie recipes to make for an upcoming TA meeting. 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