Baked Sunday Morning's - Devouring Brooksters

These could be one of the best treats I've made yet, a BROOKSTER! I'm already contemplating different varieties to bake. So for those like me who have never heard of a brookster before this is my definition; a brownie topped with cookie mixture baked together resulting in a golden crunchy topping, fugdey centre and bursting with rich dark choc chips.

 

This is the first recipe The Baked Sunday Morning's group have made out of Matt and Renato's new offering Baked Elements. I'm still waiting for the arrival of my copy in the mail, but lucky for me you can find the recipe for brookster's here, at baked sunday mornings.

 

First I made the yummy cookie dough containing butter, caster & brown sugar, plain flour, bi-carb soda, salt, eggs, vanilla and choc chips. This mixture is then chilled for 3 hours. 

 

Next I whipped up the brownie batter combining flour, salt, cocoa powder, dark chocolate, butter, eggs, sugar and vanilla. Look at that shinny mixture!!

 

Then I divided the gooey brownie batter between 12 lined muffin tins and chilled for 3 hours.

 

Using my trusty ice cream scoop I deposited cookie dough on top of the brownie mixture and baked for 28 minutes @ 180 degree fan forced oven, rotating half way through. 

 

They came out puffy and golden and my house smelt delightful!

 

And I had enough left over cookie dough to bake a few trays off as well. These took about 18 minutes @ 180 degree fan forced oven, rotating half way through.

 

You can easily devour these little gems as is or serve with berries and ice cream for dessert. This recipe's going in my keeper box and I'm anticipating the post any day now to find out what else we'll be making in the coming weeks. Check out how everyone one else went with the Brooksters at baked sunday mornings.



Mississipi Mud Pie

Baked Sunday Morning has come around again! When I first browsed through Baked Explorations this was one of the many recipes I noted down to try. What an extravagent pie, Oreo cookie crust, flourless chocolate cake, chocolate pudding and whipped cream!

The pie crust is made of blitzed oreo's and melted butter pressed into a lined tin, chilled for 10 minutes in the freezer and then baked for ten minutes.

Whilst the pie crust is cooling I made the flourless chocolate cake, omitting the coffee as some people didn't like the taste. Instead I just added the same quantity of water. Now I followed the directions but ended up with way to much cake batter, I wonder if anyone else did? I filled lined muffin tins with the rest of the mixture and baked them with the cake. I may of overfilled my tin as well because it took neally an hour to bake instead of the recommended 40 minutes.

The chocolate pudding was quite easy to make you just mix together sugar, cocoa powder, cornflour, salt, egg yolks and milk in a pot. Whisk till it boils then remove from heat and stir through butter, vanilla and chocolate. This mixture is then covered with cling wrap, taking care to pat it down to the surface to prevent a 'skin' from forming whilst cooling.

This is the sunken cake after coming out of the oven.

And as the choclate pudding was ment to go on top, I pushed the cake in and down to make room.

Once the pudding and cake had chilled for around 3 hours, I poured the chocolate pudding on top followed by sweetened whipped cream.

After chilling for another 30 minutes I used a nice sharp hot knife to slice through the pie revealing the gooey layers inside. I spruced it up with an oreo and then I got a bit carried away with the remaining pudding and cake...

I layered in a cocktail glass, cake, chocolate pudding, crushed oreo cookie, whipped cream and garnished with golden caramelized cacao nibs, an oreo and a my new favourite snack, a sweet chilli pretzel!

Then my sister suggested coating a pretzel in gold as well,

And then I found some colourful poprocks in the cupboard, Mmm this is my masterpiece!!!

Although the recipe suggests to make this over two days I ran out of time and made it all the same day, it turned out great. This was a very rich pie and I'm definately glad I got around to making it but next time I'm thinking of adding a layer of caramel in there as well. I hope everyone else had fun making this recipe I can't wait to check out their blogs and see how they went xx

For the Mississipi Mud Pie check out the recipe at Baked Sunday Mornings.