{"id":796,"date":"2012-03-25T20:33:23","date_gmt":"2012-03-25T20:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.growntocook.com\/?p=796"},"modified":"2013-09-02T09:42:10","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T07:42:10","slug":"guinness-brownies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growntocook.com\/?p=796","title":{"rendered":"Guinness brownies"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"There has been a complaint about my baking. Or rather: not baking.<\/p>\n

You see, my husband had the nerve to bring a shop bought cake to work on his birthday. Moreover, two of his closest colleagues were not at work that day. And so they rebelled, shouting that someone whose wife writes a foodblog should be ashamed to even have considered not bringing something homemade. And so, to restore peace, I baked.<\/p>\n

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Those guys, my husband’s colleagues, they are guys. <\/em>They talk about football. A lot. They like beer. A lot. But because (in the Netherlands at least) you can’t treat your colleagues to a glass of beer during office hours, I wrapped the beer in some chocolate.<\/p>\n

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I found this great recipe on the Bon App\u00e9tit website. There’s stout in the batter and then some more in the glaze. I reduced the sugar by a third and the butter too. Nobody noticed: they are still very rich. If anything, it makes them more “grown up” (and more suitable for guys). The beer in the batter is not really recognizable as beer, but adds a depth and richness.\"\"<\/p>\n

Chocolate-stout brownies<\/strong><\/span>
\nAdapted from Bon App\u00e9tit<\/a>
\nMakes 16<\/p>\n

Batter:<\/span><\/h3>\n