Since I always like to do a trial run of anything new before serving it to actual people...oh who I am kidding? I'm sick and and had all this stuff and figured it was BOUND to work together!
Before:
Here's what I did:
for the rasberry/rum part: In a saucepan, slowly heated 2 parts of rasberry preserves to one part dark rum. Then strained the seeds off.
For the brownies: In stead of using water, I used the rasberry/rum mix. Then I put an extra splash of rum in because, well, just because! I also put a splash of water in there, since it still looked kind of dry. I cooked the brownies according to directions. Had to cook them a little longer than the directions, actually. Not sure if it was my oven, or maybe because of the rasberry preserves in there.
The batter: damn skippy!
The finished product:
Lost a lot of the "rasberry-ness." When I do this again, I'll see about punching up the preserves, or maybe even see if "they" make a rasberry extract of some sort.
Trial run grade: I was going to give it one and a half thumbs up, but that sounds kind of creepy so I'll give it a B- instead!
