Butterscotch Brownies

These are amazing!  Eat as is, or with vanilla ice cream. 

Ingredients:

• 1/4 cup butter, softened
• 1 cup packed brown sugar
• 1 t. vanilla
• 2 eggs
• 3/4 cup gluten free flour mix
• 1 tsp. xanthan gum
• 1 tsp. baking powder
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1/2 of a 12 oz bag butterscotch chips
• 1/2 cup coconut

Cream butter and sugar together.  Add vanilla and eggs and stir to combine.  Add flour mix, xanthan gum, baking powder, and salt and mix well.  Stir in butterscotch chips and coconut.  Pour into a greased 8x8 inch pan.  Bake at 350 degrees for about 30 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.  Delicious!!

I-Can't-Believe-These-Are-Gluten-Free Brownies

Be verrrry careful with these...you will want to eat the whole pan!

• 2/3 cup gluten free flour mix
• 1/4 tsp. salt
• 1/2 tsp. baking powder
• 1/2 tsp. xanthan gum
• 6 oz. semisweet chocolate (use squares, or weigh chocolate chips with scale)
• 1/2 c. butter
• 1-1/8 cups sugar
• 2 tsp. vanilla
• 3 eggs
• 1/4 chopped walnuts
• 1/2 cup chocolate chips (any kind! milk chocolate is delicious, but semisweet works also...or white or peanut butter...)

1)  Preheat oven to 325 degrees.  Line an 8-inch square baking pan with foil and grease foil.

2)  Combine flour, salt, baking powder, and xanthan gum in a small bowl.  Set aside.

3)  Melt chocolate and butter in a medium-size saucepan over low heat.  Remove from heat; whisk in sugar and vanilla.  Whisk in eggs, one at a time, and continue to whisk until mixture is completely smooth and glossy.  Add flour mixture and whisk until just incorporated.  Sitr in nuts and chocolate chips.

4)  Pour batter into pan and place in preheated oven.  Bake about 45 minutes are until knife inserted in center comes out with wet crumbs.  Cool in pan on rack about 5 minutes.  Remove brownies from pan by lifting out foil, and cool completely on rack.  Enjoy!!!

Gluten Free Italian Goodness

This links over to my other blog, to a post on gluten free cooking:

http://countrymomto4.blogspot.com/2010/08/gluten-free-italian-goodness.html

Enjoy!!