Pop a pan of chocolate goodness in the oven, snuggle up by the fire and sink your teeth into a pile

Pop a pan of chocolate goodness in the oven, snuggle up by the fire and sink your teeth into a pile of brownies - glass of milk optional, cheap tickets but deliciously complementary. Consider this sinfully easy treat a gift to yourself amidst the holiday rush.
A cross between a cake and a cookie - and really, is there any better place to be in between? - rich and fudgy or light and cakey brownies have been making us smile since the first half of the 20th century.
Brownies came to be when Bertha Palmer, of the Palmer House Hotel in Chicago, requested that the chef create a ladies dessert that was smaller than a piece of cake and easy to pop in a boxed lunch, although it should still feel like a treat. Soon, brownie recipes began making appearances in cookbooks.
Perhaps one of the most famous is The Boston Cooking School Cook Book brownie recipe from Fannie Farmer, although Maria Willet Howard s Lowney s Cook Book added an extra egg and square of chocolate to Farmer cheap tickets s recipe, so there is debate over who reigned cheap tickets supreme queen of the brownies cheap tickets in those early days.
Make yourself the absolute best brownies , drool over this so-good brownies gallery or get festive with peppermint-topped brownies . But if you bake these for yourself and some unexpected guests drop by, don t feel obligated to say what s hiding in your kitchen.