{"id":5540,"date":"2016-02-01T05:02:52","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T20:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/?p=5540"},"modified":"2016-01-29T15:30:57","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T06:30:57","slug":"brownies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/2016\/02\/brownies\/","title":{"rendered":"Brownies<\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s February!!! And that means Hokkaido Snow Festival, Nagasaki Lantern Festival (for Chinese New Year! Happy Lunar New Year!), and of course Valentine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day. So for those looking to confess to their crushes or impress their special someone, or let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s face it, to just stuff some chocolate in our faces (thanks Anna), it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s brownie time!<\/p>\n

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Ingredients:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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125g Butter<\/p>\n

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200g Sugar (add up to 50g more for sweeter brownies)<\/p>\n

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50g Cocoa Powder (about 10 Tbsp)<\/p>\n

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2 Eggs, beaten<\/p>\n

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50g Flour<\/p>\n

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\u00c2\u00bd tsp Baking Powder<\/p>\n

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A pinch of Salt<\/p>\n

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Instructions:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Melt the butter<\/strong> in a small pot on low heat.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    (You can also melt it in the microwave)<\/p>\n

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    1. Remove from the stove and stir in the sugar<\/strong> and cocoa powder<\/strong> til well mixed.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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      1. Beat the eggs<\/strong> into the mixture.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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        1. In a separate bowl, mix together the flour<\/strong>, baking powder<\/strong>, and salt<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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          1. Stir in the flour mixture<\/strong> till just combined.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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            1. Pour the mixture into a prepared (butter coated, flour dusted) pan and bake at 180\u00c2\u00b0C\/350\u00c2\u00b0F for about 25 minutes. Aim for a fudgey rather than cake-like texture.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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              Variations:<\/strong> Add \u00c2\u00bd cup of your favorite nut to the mixture at the end, like almonds or pistachios.<\/p>\n

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              Base recipe courtesy of Sarah McGowan.<\/p>\n

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              Happy February & Valentine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day!<\/p>\n

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              *mandy*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                  It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s February!!! And that means Hokkaido Snow Festival, Nagasaki Lantern Festival (for Chinese New Year! Happy Lunar New Year!), and of course Valentine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day. So for those looking to confess to their crushes or impress their special someone, or let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s face it, to just stuff some chocolate in our faces (thanks Anna), it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":5522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false},"categories":[440,8,103],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/MWongBrownies.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}