An Impossible Pie for National Brownie Day

December 8 is National Brownie Day!

For the occasion, we’re gonna revisit a brownie post from 2014.

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This recipe sounds pretty damn simple. And based on my success with all of the other Impossible Pies, I assumed this, too, would be a winner. So I made this for a dessert party that we had in honor of one of my co-worker’s retirement.

Let’s see how this went down.

The usual suspects. For the nuts I chose chopped hazelnuts and for the baking chocolate, milk chocolate chips.

I do not have a blender, so, like the Impossible Pies in the past, I just used my KitchenAid mixer.

This is the pie before it went into the oven. I must admit that the melted chocolate solidified back into little chips as soon as it went into the mixer. The consistency here was…odd.

I had to bake it longer than directed. This bitch took a long time in the oven. But it came out looking like a pie/brownie/cake…kinda.

I made sure the year was there so everyone knew I was making one of my weird retro recipes.

The brownie pie looks deceptively okay there. But it was not okay. The whipped cream and sprinkled hazelnuts cloaked the Impossible Brownie Pie visually, but nothing could mask the weird, chewy, half-baked, lumpy pie that lay beneath.

It was horrible.

And again, this, like the Jack o’ Lantern Salad, went untouched. But I don’t blame the people I work with.  I know that I’ve said it before: I always have to decide whether I want to contribute something that people will enjoy, or whether I want to make something for the blog.

Blog. Always. Wins.

Therefore,  I continue to subject my co-workers to weird foodstuffs. I am surprised they haven’t yet asked me to stop cooking and just bring cups or napkins.

yinzerella

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  • My grandmother used to make the toast, "May your lover and husband be the same person!" She was fun at parties. May your dishes be both blogable and edible.

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