Jessica Lagasses Black And White Brownies Food

BLACK AND WHITE BROWNIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Butter a 9-by-13-inch baking pan.
• In a medium-large saucepan over low heat, melt the butter with the unsweetened chocolate, whisking occasionally, until smooth and fully melted. Sprinkle in cocoa powder and whisk to combine. Remove the pan from heat and allow to cool for about 5 minutes.
• Stir in sugar and vanilla until just combined. Stir in the eggs, one at a time. Gently stir in the flour until halfway incorporated. Add the white chocolate chips and stir just until combined.
• Pour the batter (it will be very thick!) into the baking pan and spread to even out the top.
• Bake 20 to 25 minutes, then check the brownies with a toothpick; if they are overly gooey/messy, return them to the oven for another 5 to 10 minutes. (Just be careful not to burn the edges.)
• Allow the brownies to cool completely. Cut into 1-by-2-inch fingers and place on a rack over a baking sheet.
• Melt the almond bark in a double-boiler (or in the microwave in 30-second intervals). Dip one end of each brownie finger into the almond bark and then return to the rack until the coating has hardened, 5 to 10 minutes.

BLACK AND WHITE BROWNIES

Steps:

• 1.Heat the oven to 350°F.
• 2.Spray an 8-inch square baking pan with cooking spray.
• 3.Beat the cream cheese, 1 tablespoon butter and 1/4 cup sugar in a medium bowl at medium speed until smooth.
• 4.Add 1 egg, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla and 2 tablespoons sour cream to the mixture and beat until creamy. Stir in 2 tablespoons of flour; set the mixture aside.
• 5.Beat 1/4 cup butter, 1/2 cup sugar, 2 eggs, 1/4 cup sour cream and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla in a large bowl at low speed until mixed. Beat at medium speed until creamy.
• 6.Beat in 2/3 cup flour, baking powder and salt at low speed.
• 7.Beat in the chocolate at low speed until mixed; and then beat at medium speed until smooth and creamy.
• 8.Spread half of the chocolate mixture evenly in the pan. Top with the cream cheese mixture. Drop the remaining chocolate mixture over the cream cheese mixture filling by spoonfuls.
• 9.Pull a table knife through batters to marble.
• 10.Bake the brownies for 25 to 28 minutes or until the center is set. Place the brownies on a cooling rack; cool completely (about 2 hours), and then refrigerate until the brownies set. Store any leftovers in the refrigerator. Serve with a drizzle of chocolate sauce, if desired.

BLACK AND WHITE COOKIES

Steps:

• Prepare cookies: Position an oven rack in center of oven and a second rack in lower third. Heat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt on waxed paper. Beat together butter and sugars in a large bowl with a mixer on medium speed until creamy, about 2 minutes. Beat in buttermilk, egg, and vanilla until well blended. On low speed, beat in flour mixture in 3 additions.
• Drop batter by level 1/4 cup onto 2 large ungreased baking sheets, spacing about 3 inches apart. Using a metal spatula, spread into 2-inch rounds.
• Bake for 8 minutes; switch positions of baking sheets. Bake another 7 to 9 minutes or until edges are lightly browned. Cool baking sheets on a wire rack 1 minute. Transfer cookies to rack to cool completely.
• Meanwhile, prepare icings: For black (chocolate) icing, melt chocolate chips and shortening in top of a double boiler over barely simmering, not boiling, water, stirring until smooth. Let cool.
• For white icing, beat milk, confectioners' sugar, and salt in a medium-size bowl until a spreading consistency, adding more milk if necessary; cover with plastic wrap.
• Turn cooled cookies flat side up; brush off any crumbs. Spread 1 tablespoon white icing on half of each cookie. Spread 1 tablespoon chocolate icing on the other half of each cookie. Let dry. Store between sheets of waxed paper in a sealed container.

BLACK AND WHITE BROWNIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Melt chocolate and 1/2 cup butter and set aside to cool.
• To make the cream cheese batter, with a whip attachment cream 6 tablespoons butter than add the cream cheese and continue mixing. Add the sugar, beat until fluffy then beat in the eggs, then flour, and vanilla. Set aside.
• For the chocolate batter, in a separate bowl whip the eggs and sugar until fluffy. Stir together the flour, baking powder, salt, and mix into egg mixture. Mix in the melted chocolate and butter, and the extracts.
• In a rectangular pan, lined with parchment, spread half the chocolate mixture. Spread the cream cheese layer over that to cover, then drop remaining chocolate batter by spoonfuls on top then swirl with a knife. Bake for 40 minutes. Cool and cut into bars.

BLACK & WHITE BROWNIES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Grease and line a 20 x 30cm tin with baking parchment. Finely chop 150g of the dark chocolate, and roughly chop the remaining dark chocolate and the white chocolate. Put the finely chopped chocolate in a bowl and melt over a small pan of gently simmering water, or in the microwave. Set aside to cool a little.
• Put the butter and 350g of the sugar in a bowl, and beat until light and fluffy. Add 4 of the eggs, one at a time, beating well between each addition, then sift in the flour, cocoa, baking powder and a good pinch of salt. Finally, stir in the melted chocolate and the chopped chocolate chunks. Scrape the mixture into the prepared tin and smooth the surface.
• Working quickly, tip the cream cheese into a bowl and beat to soften with a spatula. Add the remaining egg, flour and sugar, and mix until just combined. Spoon blobs of the cream cheese mixture onto the brownie until all used up, and use the end of a cutlery knife or a skewer to swirl the 2 mixtures together to create a marbled effect. Bake for 30 mins until just set - it should still have a little wobble when it comes out of the oven, and a skewer inserted into the centre should come out with sticky crumbs. Cool completely in the tin before cutting into squares to serve.