The Best Ooey Gooey Homemade Brownie Recipe

I was asked a couple days ago to make brownies for a funeral. No problem!

Package brownies are usually my favorite because I had never found a homemade

recipe I liked. Unfortunately, I failed to buy a box of brownie mix...whoops...

and there wasn't time to go to the store. Thank goodness for the internet!

Do you know there are A LOT of "Best Brownies" recipes?

I found several that sounded so-so, but some were way too much work.

Then I saw one that said, "Katherine Hepburn's Brownies."

I liked Katherine Hepburn and the recipe looked easy.

The problem I found was that several people claimed their recipe was

Katherine Hepburn's, but some of the ingredients were not the same.

Since I have no idea what the original recipe actually was, I used one of them that looked pretty 

easy and made it with a couple changes. You can Google "Katherine Hepburn's Brownies" 

to see some of the versions. They are all pretty close to the same so you can't go wrong.

They are ooey and gooey, and be prepared because they have lots of butter and sugar.

There also isn't very much flour in them.

I doubled the recipe and added frosting, and chocolate chips instead of nuts. 

Be prepared for a sugar high...they are rich, but delicious!

There's no pictures because all that was left were the brownies on the outside edges 

of the pan. The center ones went to the funeral...I hope they liked them.

I definitely did!

Batiks (and Brownies) Are So Far Out!

In the 60's I was just a kid who was into the Beatles, The Monkees, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Sonny and Cher, and Herman's Hermits. I wore jeans, buffalo sandals, and t-shirts most of the time and sewed all my own clothes, including this little dress I'm wearing with Frank in 1968.

I never put flowers in my hair or smoked "funny things", but I knew some people who made those brownies that had a little "something" in them. I also never sewed anything with batiks. 

Well guess what...that's going to change! Batiks are coming in a week or so and I've been busy sewing away with some far-out batiks that are so cool and out-ta-sight!

As for the brownies, I always use a package mix (Ghiradelli is my favorite) because I have yet to find a homemade brownie recipe I like. Do you have a favorite homemade brownie recipe you'd be willing to share with me?...(without the "funny stuff" in them, of course!) I like them chewie on the inside and a little crunchy on the top.

I think Frank is kind of excited about the hop that will be starting on October 22nd. 

I'm excited, too!