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Quinoa brownies? No, really!

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Quinoa brownies

My mother served these fudgy little treats after Thanksgiving dinner and they were delicious. As you can see, the icing in the picture is a bit smudged because she kindly packed up a tupperware to take home. Strangely, there are now only a few left. Must have been fridge gremlins!

1/3 cup quinoa

2/3 cup water

Cook and cool

1/6 cup milk

2 eggs

1/2 tsp. vanilla

3/8 cup butter  (melted and cooled)

Combine above ingredients with quinoa in a food processor and mix until smooth.

In a mixing bowl combine:

3/4 cup sugar

1/2 cup cocoa

3/4 tsp. baking powder

1/4 tsp. baking soda

1/4 tsp. salt

Add egg/quinoa mixture to dry ingredients and mix well.

Pour into a greased 8″ pan.  Bake @ 350 until knife comes out clean  — about 35-40 minutes.

Cool in pan.

When cool, cover with icing.

(When I am icing a chocolate cake, I use strong coffee instead of milk with the icing sugar)

2 Tbsp. butter

1 1/2 cups icing sugar

1 tsp. vanilla

enough strong coffee to desired consistency.

This recipe came from a friend who is very exact with measurements.

Because I made it for the first time on Sunday, I followed the measurements as exactly as possible.  Although how one measures 1/6 cup of milk, I don’t know  — I used a little less than 1/4 cup and it seemed to work.