Week 24: Alcohol - Guinness Chocolate Brownies [Baking]

Intro from Baking Challenge: This week's challenge is a fun one - alcohol. There are a plethora of alcohol themed treats. Cocktail inspired cupcakes are a personal favorite, like these car bomb cupcakes, or these bellini cupcakes. Want something a little heavier? How about a rum cake. Or, maybe, less sweet? Beer bread is a delicious way to use booze in a savory dish. Don't drink? Mocktail deserts, like pina colada cupcakes, are a great option.

I had some extra Guinness leftover from the Beer Cooking Challenge a few weeks ago, so I decided to try out this recipe for this week's challenge. I am definitely more of a fudgy-brownie (rather than cake-brownie) girl, and I was so happy with how these turned out. You can clearly taste the Guinness, but it works really well with the chocolate brownie. I opted for walnuts instead of pecans for personal preference.

One word to the wise, make sure you follow the directions around adding in the flour mixture a few tablespoons at a time to the batter. To compensate adding the Guinness afterwards, the batter gets VERY thick at this point. I made the mistake of trying to add a bunch of flour at a time (about half a cup) and first had a flour/cocoa sand explosion in my face, and then nearly broke my hand mixer.