Fudgy Mocha Brownies

These brownies are incredibly delicious!!!! I love baking from scratch, It's just one of those things that I find relaxing, and these were no disappointment!!!!  I don't know how much you all will love this, but I know they were a hit here!!!!

Ingredients

1 and 1/4 cups unsifted flour devided

1/4 cup sugar

1/2 cup cold butter

1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk

1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa

1 egg

1 teaspoon instant coffee dissolved in 1 tablespoon hot water

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/2 teaspoon baking powder 3/4 cup chopped nuts

Directions

preheat oven to 350 F

In bowl, combine 1 cup flour and sugar, cut in butter until crumbly. Press mixture firmly in bottom of 13x9 inch baking pan.  Bake 15 minutes.

Meanwhile in large bowl, mix all other ingredients including 1/4 cup of flower, but leave out the nuts. Mix well, and then add the nuts after everything has been mixed. Pour mixture over crust after it comes out of oven, and then bake for 20 minutes until center is set. Cool, and then cut into 36 brownies. Store in an air tight container at room temperature.

This is very very tasty, however, it could use a little more coffee in it. I'm thinking that maybe one more tablespoon will make all the difference.

My DNA quilt

Hello everyone!!! Bet my post title got your attention!!! This is a quilt I made for us here at the couch, after it's been to show and tell at the quilting bee the weekend, It will go on the back of the couch, where we can pull it over on us should we get cold.  This was my first big scrap quilt, and I must say, I think it turned out fairly well!!! I have been jokingly calling it my DNA quilt, because of all of the injuries I managed to get while working on this bad boy!!! First there was the running the sewing machine needle through my finger, and after that, I went back into my sewing room Sunday night, and managed to snip my finger while snipping threads...to be honest, that hurt worse than the sewing machine needle, bled more too surprisingly. After I got through all that, and managed to get this whole thing quilted, I was removing the last safety pin from the quilt, and when it popped open, what happened??? Why the darn thing decided to give me a nice big scratch. Thank goodness, I managed to get the binding on without any incident. Although for you quilters, I want you to know, I was determined to use up all of that black fabric that I used as my sashing, and cut 2 inch strips for my binding. That was work getting that on there, and I did it by machine, because this girl doesn't do any hand sewing if it can be avoided.

Right now, I'm working on some t-shirt quilts. I started ironing on the stabilizer this morning, and thought there was something wrong with it at first...absolutely nothing wrong with it. It would seem I forgot to turn my iron on. I think my brain is broken!!!! I have 2 of them I'm making, and will post pictures once they are done. Hopefully I don't get any injuries while working on these.

If you are interested in how I made my quilt, I just did 12 inch Churndash squares using scrap fabric, and I did 3 inch sashing between everything. The white fabric going around the inside was a 2 inch strip, and then I think I did a 5 or 8 inch strip around with the green fabric. It was a lot of fun to put together, it was a great escape, and I found myself in a happier place while working on this quilt, because I wasn't thinking about Facebook, or any of the protests going on. It was just me, my fabric, my rulers, my rotary cutter, my thread, and my machine, and Bryan Adams in the CD player.

I'm currently playing around learning how to use my quilt designing program, and have many hopes of designing a few things for here. Stay tuned, as soon as I find what I did with it, there will be a new crochet pattern coming your way!!!

Stay warm!!!
Brandi