I have Tuesdays down pat. I have a set routine – I do the same thing every Tuesday – and to be honest, it’s my favourite day of the week. The only thing that could make my Tuesdays better is if they came with more snacks (ohh guess what’s gonna happen!).
Every Tuesday, I spend the day in West Perth, in the Oaktree office, where I volunteer. I finish my work at about 4pm and I walk to the Yoga Space, where I take their $5 community yoga class. After the class I go back to Oaktree to pick up my car and to chat to everyone about the fact that I went to yoga, and then I go home, feeling very pure and self-righteous.
Last Monday I made brownies. I took them to Oaktree because I knew if I kept them home (“for my family!”) I’d eat them all, because there weren’t ordinary brownies. These were brownies with peanut butter inside.
(Here are two facts about me. One, I hate it when people say, “do you know what I mean?” be more clear with what you’re saying if you’re already anticipating confusion. Two, peanut butter is my favourite food, ever).
Peanut butter. In brownies. +10 points, Tuesday.
I was kind of scared to make these – I was worried they’d either be so good I’d eat every single one, or that they’d fail to meet my skyscraper expectations of the brownie-PB combo (the Titanic of brownies, if you will).
But I made them anyway, and took them to Oaktree to make sure I wouldn’t eat all of them.
I ate four. But it was ok, because I had yoga later, right? Active and holistic and pure and whatever. I fuelled myself with anticipatory brownies, I walked to yoga, and I waited outside. I waited, and I waited, until it was 4:32 and the supervising teacher was shaking her head sadly and offering my free passes to make up for the fact that no one else had showed and the class was cancelled.
I left yoga. I walked back to Oaktree. I went inside and told everyone about how I didn’t go to yoga. Then, I ate another brownie.
They’re that good. I don’t even care.
I followed this recipe from The Heart of Food exactly for the peanut butter filling, the chocolate layer top, and the assembly method, but I subbed the brownie base with this one from Gluten Free Girl, because I’m practicing GF baking in anticipation of a coeliac friend’s birthday (and because see #1 on this list). The brownies were fantastic – dense and fudgey, not too sweet but still a perfect foil for the peanut butter filling. Simon mentioned in the recipe that the filling is quite sweet, so I used some homemade PB I made a while ago, that tasted just a bit too hippy-natural-maltodextrin-free for me to eat by itself, and it was delicious – creamy and smooth, with a nice nutty aftertaste. I’ll be making these again for sure – I just gotta make sure yoga isn’t cancelled.
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