corona and fudge

I spend my first week of my co-op browsing the internet for recipes. I promise, I really didn't have anything else to be accomplishing. And I haven't baked in my own apartment in over month, which really needed to change. So after filling Nick' inbox with recipes, we settled on two to end our week with. 

Our first project was Corona blondies, which I found on foodgawker (prob. my favorite website next to google reader). The recipe we used can be found here.

Our ingredients:

My lovely, of age roommate assisted with measuring the Corona:

Then Nick mixed up all the wet ingredients (Since my mixer was at my neighbor's 'til after these were in the oven)

Alyssa's boyfriend / my adopted roommate shredded some lemon zest via knife (since we don't have a zester..)

We were are so anxious for them to come out of the over I served them before I took a picture. But I remembered before we devoured the whole thing:

Enjoying the conncotion:

They turned out more cake like than I expected. However, after chilling in the fridge for two days they got way better. (seriously though, perfect 11 pm/ its still eighty degrees outside snack). 

Anyway, back to Friday. Devin left, Alyssa and Don went to sleep...and Nick and I kept baking. Our next endeavor was Nutella Brownies. With icing of course. We used this recipe- because I'm an avid reader of Averie's (Her blog's pretty sweet) .

Ingredients:

Melted chocolate and butter, plus sugar, eggs and vanilla:

 

I ran downstairs between batches of baked goods to get my mixer back. I didn't realize how much I had missed it until now.. We added the dry ingredients and popped the pan in the oven. While it the brownies were baking we set to work on the icing. Definitely forgot to picture the ingredients (the recipe documentation process is a work in progress to say the least). Mixing the icing:

By and far one of the best icing/frosting/delicious sugar-y toppings I've ever had. It probably had something tow do with the mass amount of butter and two cups of sugar...

The brownies looked delicious when we pulled them out!

And even better when we added the icing! 

And every single  taste testers so far has agreed- they are just as good (or better) then they look.

We definitely had a successful baking night.... made a whole heck of a lot of dishes for me to do in the morning. But honestly these things were so good it was completely worth it. And there are a lot of delicious snacks in my fridge.

And thanks Nick for putting up with my urge to open this blog by baking up a storm. We'll be posting savory dishes asap, promise!