Go Irish Brownies

Recipe Rating:	15 Ratings5
Category:	Cookies
Collections:	St. Patrick's Day, 2012 Member's Choice
Serves:	16
Prep Time:	15 Min
Cook Time:	20 Min

Ingredients

BROWNIES:
1 c	all purpose flour
1/2 tsp	baking powder
1/2 tsp	salt
4	squares semi-sweet baking chocolate (1 ounce each)
1/2 c	butter
1/2 c	sugar
1/4 c	irish cream liqueur
2	eggs, beaten
IRISH CREAM FROSTING:
1/4 c	cream cheese
2 Tbsp	butter, softened
2 Tbsp	irish cream liqueur
3-4	drops green food coloring
1 1/2 c	powdered sugar
DRIZZLE:
1	square semi-sweet baking chocolate (1 ounce)

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Kathie Carr

Well Seasoned

North Liberty, IN (pop. 1,896)

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Member Since Jul 2010

Kathie's Notes:

Good for St. Patrick's Day or anytime! A "watching Notre Dame Women's Basketball" party inspired this recipe. What a great team! This party needed something new and equally good. Could anything be better than really fudgy brownies with an Irish twist?

I started with my favorite 4 squares of chocolate brownie recipe and added Irish Cream Liqueur. A couple of other changes and an icing and I had a variation that everyone raved about.

ND Irish Women's Basketball is doing really well, too. So now its a good luck charm... we must have Irish Brownies.

Comments from the Test Kitchen:

Let's hear it for (green) fudge brownies! These sweet fellas were gone in a flash.

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter an 8 inch square pan.

In a small bowl stir together flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.

Melt chocolate and butter in a microwave safe medium bowl. Watch carefully. Stir to blend. Stir in sugar and liqueur. With a whisk beat in eggs, one at a time. Stir in flour mixture. Spread batter in buttered pan.

Bake for 20-25 minutes. Remove from oven and place pan on a wire rack to cool.

Make frosting: In a mixer bowl beat cream cheese and butter until well mixed and smooth. Add liquer and food coloring. Mix well. Gradually mix in powdered sugar.

Prepare drizzle: Melt semi-sweet chocolate.

Frost cooled brownies with green frosting and then drizzle with melted chocolate. Score where you want to cut bars (so that chocolate won't just break up when you cut the cooled bars). Refrigerate for at least 1 hour to allow frosting to firm up. Makes 16 brownies.

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Carol Junkins CarolAJ

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Pat Dattilo pdattilo

Feb 12, 2012

these look so yummy - I can't wait to make them!

Kathie Carr kathiecc

Feb 13, 2012

I hope you like them as much as we do.

Kitchen Crew JustaPinch

I tried this recipe and say it's Family Tested & Approved!

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deb baldwin messinthekitchen

Feb 23, 2012

Congratulations Kathie on your blue ribbon!

Kathie Carr kathiecc

Feb 23, 2012

Thank you, Deb. Of course its the brownies that got the award!

Jan Bartholome 2HandsForHim

Feb 28, 2012

Hey, Kathie, congratulations on your Blue Ribbon Recipe...I'm glad the Kitchen Crew finally discovered you! These brownies look so good, and they'll certainly be fun for St. Patrick's Day!

I remember when my kids were little, I used to put green food coloring in my biscuit dough AND their milk and anything else that I could dye green on Saint Paddy's day. My (very suspicious about food) then-five-year-old son asked, "Mommy, how come these biscuits are green." I replied, "Because it's St. Patrick's Day, Billy!" He said, "I KNOW that, but I mean how did they GET green?!?" So much for trusting Mommy, huh? (OH, it was tempting to say, "I made them two weeks ago, Billy, and just let them sit in the cupboard till they turned green!" But then, of course, he might not have eaten another biscuit for YEARS! LOL!)

Sheryl Little chocolate44

Feb 28, 2012

Congratulations, Kathie! A girl after my own heart - wonderful tribute to the fighting Irish! I am a southern transplant from right up there in ND country - South Bend. Go Irish!!!
Sherry

Kathie Carr kathiecc

Feb 28, 2012

Thanks everyone! And the luck of the Irish seems to be working. ND women beat UConn last night, third game in a row with them we have won. What an amazing team!

I have to keep making these brownies every game day. Its a tradition now.

Women's basketball is so much fun.