During my trip on Route 66, it was not all about the history - I managed to indulge in some very contemporary shopping. The lovely green plate on which the brownies pictured above are modelled came from Anthropologie in Santa Monica. I adore Anthropologie homewares, and if I had had the space and was brave to carry more plates on the long flight home, I would have. I also love their tea towels, but as I had already picked up some lovely tea towels earlier on my trip, I resisted the temptation.
I also got very excited at Walmart over the baking chips - the US has a much wider range of baking chips than here, so I dived in for some cinnamon chips, Heath bits and crème de menthe chips:
I was eager to try out some of my new baking chips, so I altered a recipe for chocolate chip brownies from p276 of The New Boston Globe Cookbook (which I picked up for a song at Dymocks) to include crème de menthe chips instead of plain chocolate chips. The crème de menthe chips added a great minty freshness to these cake-like brownies.
While I enjoyed these brownies, I learned that I am clearly in the fudgy brownie camp. The recipe does say that these are cake-y, so no surprises there.
If you would like to try this recipe, it has been published online here.
5 comments:
Oh, I love the plate - and your chip collection! I prefer fudgy browneis too but the mint chip addition sounds fantastic here.
Mint choc chip has always been my favourite ice cream flavour and I love it in cakes too - please send me some of these asap!!!
oh I am jealous of your souvenirs - that plate is beautiful and I love the idea of the choc chips
Oh you are so lucky, I thought we were privileged to get caramel choc chips. I am in the fudgy camp too.
Gorgeous plate...and I'm happy to see you found some baking fun as well. I want to see the tea towels, any chance you can do a photo spread on the tea towels? That would be fun to see.
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