25- Egg replacement brownie

Last month I decided to find the best egg replacement for cookies. Chocolate chip cookies to be precise.

And I found it. The best egg replacement was the banana egg and psyllium husk egg combo. These cookies were perfection. The banana added the moistness and the psyllium husk added the binding and the moisture retention properties needed.

Well, after four solid weeks of making the same chocolate chip cookies I decided I was sick of chocolate chip cookies. I wanted a change, is that too much to ask?

This month I decided to not continue with the egg replacement in chocolate chip cookie experiment and move on to baked goods with different egg replacement.

The recipe is one I had made before “Lunch lady brownies”. I made them this last September for that month’s lunch lady theme for back to school. It is a simple recipe with 5 ingredients. I just swapped out the four eggs for 4 egg replacements. I used 2 bananas and 2 psyllium husk eggs. To give the batter a fighting chance of rising, I added 1 tsp of baking soda to help with lift.

It was very promising and the brownies rose beautifully.

The brownies took a bit longer to cook and I used the time tested method of sticking a toothpick into the baked good and removing it to check for no batter left clinging to the toothpick. I prefer this method over timing for cakes and brownies, especially when browning can’t be trusted because of the chocolate.

I took the brownies out and left them to cool for 10 minutes. I was going to mix the frosting after this time.

And then I got called in. Cool, that’s what I do. I put the brownies in a cat secured place and went to the hospital.

One case turned into 2 and it was nearly 5 hours before I could get back to frost them. By then they had shrunk down quite a bit and I shrugged, thinking that it would make for a very fudgy brownie. It did.

My husband saw me frantically frosting the brownies after I got home from the hospital because I had a full night. He remarked, casually, “I didn’t think you liked making brownies.”

He has a point. I resisted making brownies for CTIAT for YEARS. I also don’t like making frosting.

I frosted the now very cool brownies and placed them in the refrigerator as the recipe ordered.

This morning I cut them into 2 inch x 1 inch slices and put them in the delivery device.

I would let the department weigh in on the egg replacements.

Me, I was just happy that the frosting set.

Cookie Thursday 10/10/24- I’ve got my eye on you chocolate cookie

I have broken one of my hard and fast rules for Cookie Thursday is a Thing.

I have made a chocolate cookie.

I don’t enjoy making chocolate cookies. So I don’t.

However, since the theme of the month is This is Halloween, and the makes have chocolate in them and I had eyeball candies, I decided to make an exception.

Because those white eyes need to pop!

I made chocolate cookie dough and added the eyeballs, which I have to point out I have used before in other baked goods. Drop them onto the baking sheets and bake 10 minutes. Easy peasy.

Except, this time, for some unknown reason, the eyeballs melted!

I thought this was going to be a cute cookie, with the contrast between chocolate cookie and white eyeballs. But no.

What I am left with is a chocolate cookie with random toffee bits, instead of candy eyeballs.

Rude.

However, par for the course because the base of Cookie Thursday is a Thing has been experimentation. This is one experiment that I will not do again.

The cookies are fudgy and crisp and chewy and I wouldn’t kick them out of the cookie jar. But not what I had in mind.

Cookie Thursday 4/11/24- Billionaire Bites

The highest week of April’s theme of the Taxman Cometh.

Taxes are due on Monday.

I know it.

My husband reminds me of it DAILY.

My email knows it because it reminds me of it DAILY.

Last week’s cookie was Millionaire Shortbread.

Are you picking up on the way the cookies are going?

This week’s cookie is the Billionaire Bites.

This is a no-bake recipe.

11 oz caramel, melted over low-medium heat with 1 tbs of water until smooth

1 c rice krispies

1 1/2 c pecans. The recipe didn’t call for toasting. I did that all on my own.

Mix all of these together and portion out by the teaspoonfuls. The mixture is very sticky.

I let them dry overnight before I covered them in chocolate. They were still very sticky. The humidity of days of rain did not help. I am not sure if it is the fact that it’s been raining for days but the melting of 2 c melting chocolate wafers did not go smoothly until I added about a tablespoonful of coconut oil.

Dip the bites into the chocolate.

Start running out of chocolate halfway through. Decide to call those ones half-naked billionaires.

Get mad at the existence of billionaires. These are people who have billions of dollars when there is suffering and do little to help. You know the ones.

Let chocolate dry and package them up in a container for the trip to the hospital.

I don’t think anyone is going to get the half-naked billionaire joke. Perhaps if I named them the emperor is half naked they would get it. Maybe not.

Back to taxes being due on Monday. I will do the groundwork of the taxes tonight and file them. I won’t pay until Monday. The government will get my money when it is due. And not before. Even if is is only four days before. It is the principle of the thing.

Cookie Thursday 2/1/24-Fudgy Cocoa No-Bakes.

New month, new theme. The theme for February 2024 was going to be favorites. And then my favorite nurse in the department put in her resignation. 😦

I mean, I know why she put in her resignation. She isn’t treated very well by management. Sound familiar? But she’s an amazing nurse and an amazing circulator. She always has the patient’s best interest in mind, no matter if that goes against the OR culture. Frankly, the department will be diminished without her.

The theme for February will be Tracie’s Favorites.

As I’ve written before, there were a few bakers at the beginning of Cookie Thursday is a Thing, and one by one they all dropped. Tracie has been involved with much of my planning and discussing of the monthly themes.

Although she never got behind the most popular CTIAT cookie, the Jalapeño Chocolate Chip Cookie. She has always seen it as vegetables in the cookies.

I am starting this month’s theme of Tracie’s Favorites with one of her most requested cookies- the fudgy cocoa no-bake. These go by a bunch of different names. Peanut butter oatmeal stacks, school lunch special but I call them fudgy cocoa no-bakes.

This is one of the recipes that is a good repeat. Quick and easy to make and they last forever. If they last that long.

This is the cookie that I made to bring to the in-person day at school. Speaking of school, Tracie has always been my number 1 cheerleader for school. That isn’t going away, but conversations at the hospital are.