Brownies

I have been so restrained about baking for the staff at school, but this weekend, I fell off the wagon. I spent yesterday making... brownies. Covering them with ganache... Topping the ganache with peanut butter buttercream icing... and decorating them with unsalted roasted peanuts and chocolate drizzle. Yum. These are cut in very small pieces because they are so very rich. It's great to have one of your colleagues come in and say that they were having a bad day, but there were brownies and those treats made the day better. My apologies to all of those folks participating in the school's biggest loser competition. And I wish that I could style this photo so that it looked like those beautiful shots at Tastespotting. My next brownie experiment will include Grand Marnier and candied orange peel.