Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, brownie cookie bars. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Brownie Cookie Bars is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Brownie Cookie Bars is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have brownie cookie bars using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Brownie Cookie Bars:
- Take 200 g toasted almond flakes
- Get 300 g dark chocolate (melted)
- Prepare 500 g butter
- Make ready 340 g castor sugar
- Prepare 5 egg yolks
- Get 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Prepare 80 g cocoa powder
- Take 50 g corn flour
- Prepare 50 g rice flour
- Make ready 2 tsp baking powder
- Take 600 g plain flour
Steps to make Brownie Cookie Bars:
- Prepare all ingredients - toast almond flakes in the oven for 5 minutes or until it lightly brown. Melt (double boil) chocolate.
- Using, stand mixer, Beat butter & sugar until well combined.
- Add egg yolks & vanilla extract and mix well. Using wooden spatula, fold in melted chocolate & cocoa powder. Transfer almond flakes to this batter. Whisk to combine before adding flour (rice flour, corn flour & plain flour). Add flour in batches until soft dough is formed. Dough should be easily to shape or work with.
- Spread dough on sheet of cling film and place a thin layer of another sheet on top. Use rolling pin to flatten the dough into desired thickness. Cut dough into square shape using cookie cutter or dough scrapper.
- Preheat oven to 160 C (depending on your oven) & bake for 12-15mins. Leave cookies to cool slightly before removing them from the tray as they may feel a bit soft when still hot.
How to Elevate Your Mood with Food
Many of us have been conditioned to believe that comfort foods are terrible and should be avoided. Sometimes, if your comfort food is essentially candy or other junk foods, this can be true. Other times, however, comfort foods can be completely healthy and it’s good for you to consume them. Several foods really do raise your mood when you eat them. If you seem to be a little bit down and you’re needing an emotional pick me up, try several of these.
Eggs, believe it or not, can be truly great at dealing with depression. Just see to it that you do not throw away the egg yolk. Every time you would like to cheer yourself up, the egg yolk is the most essential part of the egg. Eggs, the yolks especially, are high in B vitamins. These B vitamins are terrific for helping to improve your mood. This is because the B vitamins improve the function of your brain’s neural transmitters (the parts of the brain that affect how you feel). Try consuming some eggs to jolly up!
Put together a trail mixfrom different seeds and nuts. Almonds, cashews, peanuts, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, etc are all wonderful for improving your mood. This is possible since these foods have a bunch of magnesium which promotes serotonin production. Serotonin is the “feel good” chemical substance that dictates to your brain how you feel day in and day out. The more of it you have, the happier you are going to feel. Not only that but nuts, in particular, are a terrific protein food source.
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So you see, you don’t need to eat all that junk food when you are wanting to feel better! Try these tips instead!
