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I am slotted to provide snacks for a meeting on Wednesday afternoon. It has been a few weeks since I baked something and I wanted to try a new recipe.

I have a bunch of powdered carob and I want to use it up, so I went looking for carob recipes.

I found this brownie recipe and I wondered, how can it be bad?

Carob Brownies
6 tablespoons carob powder
1 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
2 eggs
3/4 cup honey
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup butter — cut in chunks
1/2 cup walnuts
Sift together carob, flour, salt and baking powder. In food processor,
cream eggs, honey and vanilla. Add dry ingredients to processor, plus
butter and walnuts. Pour into 9×9 greased pan. Bake at 350F for 30
minutes.

When I mixed everything together, it was thick and delicious looking. I spread it into the pan and waited for them to bake.

I eagerly ate one straight out of the oven *gag*!
Both Jojo and Deeds passed on these, and even the ants in my kitchen left them alone.
The walnuts are good…
I don’t understand why these are gross! Is it the carob? I don’t have a lot of carob experience. I think the problem might be using honey instead of a stronger tasting sweetener.

They have a texture of very dense cake, like a packaged snack food kind of taste. I tried them again the next morning and they were better cool, but still not the fudgy, gooshy goodness I crave in a brownie.

I comforted myself with an easy, never fail breakfast of baked brie and a bakery roll.

Everything is going to be all right.

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