Ingredients:
3/4 cups flour
1/4 tsp salt
2 oz unsweetened chocolate
1/2 cup butter
2 eggs
1 cup sugar
1 vanilla bean
1 ripe banana, well mashed
1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips
1/2 cup broken walnut pieces

Directions
Preheat oven to 350F. Butter a 8″ x 8″ baking pan.
Combine flour and
salt in a small bowl. Set aside. Melt butter and unsweetened
chocolate. Cool to room temperature. In a large bowl, beat
eggs and sugar. Split vanilla bean. Scrape out seeds and
add to bowl. Add mashed banana. Stir in chocolate
mixture. Gradually sift and stir in flour mixture. Add
chocolate chips and walnuts. Pour into baking pan.
Bake for 30 to 35 minutes.

Tags: brownies, chocolate brownies, rich chocolate brownies

Ingredients:
1 stick plus 3 tbsp butter
3 cup white sugar
4 eggs
1 tbsp vanilla
2 cup applesauce, unsweetened
3 cup white flour
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/8 tsp salt

Directions:
Wash 8 pint-sized wide mouth canning jars (be sure to use the kind
that have no shoulders) in hot, soapy water. Rinse well, dry and let
them come to room temperature. Grease insides of jar well with
butter.
Beat together butter, and half of sugar until fluffy. Add eggs and
remaining sugar, vanilla and applesauce.
Sift dry ingredients together, and add to the applesauce mixture a
little at a time. Beat well after each addition.
Pour 1 c. of batter into each jar, and carefully remove any batter
from the rims.
Place jars in a preheated 325 oven, and bake for 40 mins.
While cakes are baking, bring a saucepan of water to a boil, and
carefully add jar lids. Remove pan from heat, and keep lids hot until
ready to use.
When the cakes have finished baking, remove jars from oven. Make
sure jar rims are clean. (If they’re not, jars will not seal correctly)
Place lids on jars, and screw rings on tightly.
Jars will seal as they cool.
Cakes will slide right out when ready to serve.
Eat within 1 month.

Tags: cake in a jar, chocolate cake in a jar, chocolate jar cake, jar cake

Ingredients:

BASE
3 oz semi-sweet chocolate
1/2 cup Butter
2 tbsp Sugar
1 Vanilla bean
1 Egg
2 cups Graham wafer crumbs
1 cup Coconut
1/2 cup chopped pecans

FILLING
2 tbsp Custard powder
1/4 cup Milk
2 tbsp Butter; softened
1/2 cup Peanut butter, smooth
2 cup Sugar,icing; or confectioner sifted

ICING
5 oz semi-sweet Chocolate
1 tbsp Butter

Directions:
BASE: Melt chocolate and butter in microwave on high power 2
minutes. Mix in sugar and egg. Split vanilla bean. Scrape
out seeds and add to mixture. Add crumbs, coconut and nuts.
Press into 9 inch square pan. Chill.

FILLING: Using electric mixer, beat together all ingredients. Spread
over base; chill.

ICING: Melt chocolate with butter in saucepan on Medium power 3 to 4
minutes. spread over filling.

Tags: nanaimo bars, peanut butter nanaimo bars

Ingredients:
15 oz Part-skim ricotta cheese
2/3 cup Confectioners’ sugar
1/2 tsp Grated orange peel
1/2 Vanilla bean
2 tbsp Minature chocolate chips
10 Sugar ice-cream cones

In a large bowl with electric mixer at low, beat ricotta cheese, sugar,
orange peel just until smooth. Split vanilla bean. Scrape out seeds
and add to cheese mixture. Beat 1 minute. Stir in chocolate chips.
Cover and refrigerate 30 minutes. To serve, spoon mixture directly
into ice-cream cones or into decorating bag without tip and then pipe
into cones.

Tags: cannoli, children's recipes