Black Walnut Brownies (Cupcakes)

BLACK WALNUT BROWNIE (CUPCAKES)

I made these without measuring ingredients, so …..

1 cup flour

1 tsp. baking powder

2 tbsp. dark cocoa

½ cup sugar – or more if you want.

1 egg

¼ cup sour cream

1 tbl. each butter and coconut oil – melted, but not too hot.

1 tsp. vanilla

1 dram black walnut flavoring (those tiny bottles of candy flavoring)

About ½ cup chopped walnuts (black walnuts, if you can find them).

Preheat oven to 350.

Mix together flour, baking powder and cocoa in one bowl. In another bowl ….
Beat the shit out of the egg, then mix in sour cream, vanilla and melted butter/oil and flavoring. Beat in the sugar.
Add the other dry ingredients and mix well. If it’s too thick, add some milk. If it’s too thin, add some flour. It should be a thick batter. Ladle into cupcake forms. Sprinkle some chopped nuts on top and bake about 25 min.   Or you can use an 8 in. square pan, and cut them into brownie squares.
Makes about 6-8 regular size cupcakes. 

Let me know if you try the recipe and if you like it!

allen

HolyCommunion

Holy Communion - Eating God.

Bishop Spong gives a thumb-nail history of what Christians today call Holy Communion in his latest news-email.  May I add that the Eucharist is not only a meal to be shared, or remembering Jesus (Do this in memory of Me), but it is also a communing with Jesus, who is in union with the Source of All Being. Remembering Jesus in the Eucharist, and believing He is present adds a metaphysical dimension to the experience of the Sacrament (holy encounter). Furthermore, God is everywhere and in all things, and I dare to say, God IS, and God is all things. Nothing exists outside of God, therefore all of creation is in God, and is part of God. There is nothing but God. Therefore, everything we do, everything we see, everything we hear, everything we touch, is God. Eating the Communion meal is taking a moment to thoughtfully commune with the Source of our being. It is a Sacrament, not just a ritual, but an experience to be entered into. And if all things are God, then our Communion is, above all, eating God.