Friday, May 4, 2012

B's Dark Chocolate Cookie Bars


So, my 6 year old daughter told me yesterday that she wanted to make brownies. She then proceeded to tell me how she wanted to make them. First she wanted to start with some left over melted 60% dark chocolate. She then asked what we had for making cake. I said we had flour, butter, sugar and an egg. She said we could add those things too. She wanted me to write down her recipe. So I wrote:
1/4 cup butter 
leftover melted chocolate (I think it was 3-4oz bittersweet chocolate)
I then showed her the other baking chocolate that we have. She thought the unsweetened chocolate looked good. I asked her how much she wanted to add, 2,3 or 4 squares? She thought 2 squares looked good.
2 oz unsweetened chocolate 
I then asked her how she wanted to mix the ingredients. Melt the butter with the chocolate then add the other ingredients or beat the butter and the sugar then add melted chocolate?
She said she wanted to melt the chocolate and the butter together.
I then asked how much sugar she wanted to add to the chocolate. She tasted it and thought 1/4 cup would be good.
1/4 cup sugar  She then tasted it again and really liked it!
She added 1 egg because it was all we had.
I asked her if she thought vanilla would be good to add. She thought it would. I showed her the 1 tsp and the 1 T and asked her how much she thought would be good. She said 1 T would be good. So I added a Scant 1 T of Vanilla
She then told me we needed to add "2/4" of Flour. So I did as I was instructed. I then asked if she thought salt might be a good idea. She told me maybe just a tiny bit.
So I added 1/4 tsp salt.
I showed her the dough and we thought it might need a little more flour. She told me to add another 1/4 cup.
3/4 cup flour.

We pressed the dough into an 8in square baking dish and baked at 350* for 15 min.

She then said we needed to add melted chocolate chips on top. She sprinkled chocolate chips onto the hot what turned out to be chocolate cookie bars and spread them when they had melted.
She then garnished them with 4 whole strawberries.

When she started to tell me her recipe, measurements and all, I realized the recipe could actually work. So I told her we could experiment and see what might happen. The results were a very dark chocolatey cookie bar that melts in your mouth.
I think I would be willing to make this again!

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