Recipe feature: Starbucks' mocha raspberry brownies

These. Are. Delicious. Food Makes Fun Fuel is a new partner at springpad (the company I intern for), and I get to spend all day looking at Evan's recipes - and they're great! I tried this one and it was, well... wonderful. I'd definitely suggest it.

Starbucks' Mocha Raspberry Brownies by Food Makes Fun Fuel

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Ingredients:

1/2 cup sugar

1/4 applesauce

1/4 cup coffee yogurt

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

2 eggs

2/3 cup whole wheat flour

1/2 cup cocoa powder

2 teaspoon instant coffee granules

1/4 teaspoon baking powder

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/4 cup raspberry preserves

 

Get the full recipe and directions here!

What's your favorite coffee-inspired dessert?

Starting slow

My roommate and I just started season 2 of Desperate Housewives, and Bree starts one of the episodes by saying that there are 2 types of people in the world: the ones who are useless before their first cup of coffee, and the ones who aren't. I've never been a big coffee person - love the smell, hate the taste, never saw a purpose for it. But, for some reason, I just want to like coffee. Really badly.

So that's my project: I'm training myself to like coffee. Everyone else bemoans their caffeine addictions, but I secretly want to see what it's like (I guess not so secretly anymore). So as of now, I'm on the bean. Starting at day one with my raspberry mochas - sweet, chocolate-y, with a hint of raspberry and basically no coffee taste... and working my way up. One day soon: plain black coffee!