- Enough is enough
- You don't want to overdo it
- The lighter the better, and
- Doubling the amount listed in the recipe is never a good idea
This afternoon we made two batches of brownies. One to bring to the vet for taking such good care of Penny for the 3 days she stayed with them, and one for us. (You can see where she gets this train of thought. Even I can't fathom making just one batch and giving it all away!)
So Hannah mixed up the batch we were going to have for ourselves, and I mixed up the batch for the vet. (Although, due to my lack of cooking skills, we probably should have reversed so the vet got the better one!) Anyway, the entire time we were working on it, Hannah was giddy because she could smell chocolate and kept asking, "Ma ma, will I like brownies?! Are they yummy, because they smell yummy?! Can I eat them now?! How about now?! Now are they done?"
Once they were FINALLY baked and cooled off, she so very proudly carried the pan into the vet clinic and told them with a huge smile on her face that she made these, "and Mommy said they are yummy!" We chatted for a bit, then I asked Hannah to say goodbye and thank you to the staff for taking care of her puppy. Hannah's mouth, which normally runs 100 mph, suddenly stopped short and she stood gaping at the vet techs and our veterinarian, apparently speechless. I looked at her and panicked, thinking she was remembering how Eve got sick and died before we could take her to this vet clinic. Then not long after that, we got Penny, but promptly had to take her to this vet and leave her for 3 days because she was so sick, so I started shooing Hannah out the door explaining that everything is OK, Penny was still at home and she's all better now, etc. But Hannah puts on the brakes just oustide the door and turns to me with the most exasperated look on her face and says, "but MOM ... why are we leaving?!"
"Well, because we just came to drop off the brownies and now it's time to go home. Remember Penny's at home, she's OK now. She's not sick anymore."
"But MOOOMMMMM! The brownies are in THERE!!! We just LEFT them there!"
Now I was the one speechless!
You would have thought the brownies were another child the way she carried on about "just leaving them there!" How neglectful!
Apparently in her mind, we were supposed to stay at the vet and share the brownies with them. Then come home and have the second batch all by ourselves. :) Maybe some of my genes did get passed down to her!
The thing is, Hannah does such a good job of sharing everything else, I didn't see this coming at all. But apparently when it comes to chocolate ... all bets are off!
