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!

Fudge, Caramel, And Pretzels Works For Me

I've never made fudge.

No, really! I've never, ever made fudge.

But then I saw a recipe I HAD to try!

Wowzers! It was amazing!

It had chocolate, caramel, and pretzels...yum!

Thanks to Real House Moms for this delicious fudge recipe!

Want the recipe? It's HERE!

Ice Cream And Flour Equals Bread

Since I had nothing else to do after getting my carpet cleaned…

“it will take three hours”

…and please leave those noisy “fans going for 24-hours”

…oh, and "try not to walk on it." 

Huh? How am I supposed to do that? 

The hallway to my bathroom is carpeted and my sewing machine is calling me!

ANYWAY...

As I was saying before I rambled on, since I had nothing else to do after getting my carpet cleaned AND my refrigerator repaired…$$$$....I decided to make Ice Cream Bread.

Yes, I said, ICE CREAM BREAD!

I love ice cream and I love bread...works for me!

I saw a post on my sister’s Facebook page about Ice Cream Bread and because I was trapped in my kitchen (with no carpeting) it seemed logical to try making this strange combination of ingredients. It seemed simple enough, but would it taste good?

Start with 2 cups of your favorite ice cream (use the ice cream with fat not the yogurt or nonfat kind.) Melt/soften that ice cream until it is soupy so that you can easily stir it (if it isn't melted enough, it is REALLY hard to stir.) Add 1½ cups of self-rising flour (not regular flour.) Stir them until they are just barely mixed together.

Once you stir the ice cream and self-rising flour together you can add extra ingredients like banana, chocolate chips, or anything that would mix with your favorite ice cream and make your Ice Cream Bread just a little more yummy. I added half a banana.

Shovel the mixture (it’s really thick) into a small greased loaf pan (about 4" x 8".) 

Double the recipe if you want to use a bigger loaf pan. 

Bake at 350 degrees for 35-40 minutes or until a 

toothpick stuck in the center comes out clean.

My thoughts on this thing called ICE CREAM BREAD:

• It was easy to make
• The texture was really good
• It looked pretty
• It was moist
• It smelled yummy
• It needed chocolate chips or something else to add more flavor
• Maybe a little vanilla or sugar would help?
• It wasn't very sweet, which can be a good thing for some people
• Banana in it was good, but I would use a whole one instead of a half
• Maybe a different flavor of ice cream would make it taste better

Have you ever made Ice Cream Bread?