Nuts or no nuts?

laureen227

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Originally Posted by Sweets

Tell Hubby that I'm about to divulge my secret recipe for award winning brownies!

I add about a cup of chocolate morsels and 1/2 cup of nuts to the mix, then I sprinkle another cup of morsels and 1/2 cup of chopped nuts on top right after I take the pan out of the oven. The morsels melt and adhere the nuts to the brownies. I've taken first prize in a bake-off using this recipe. I've also experimented with butterscotch morsels and peanut butter morsels
this is so similar to mine - start with a Duncan Hines chewy brownie mix.use salted butter for the fat instead of oil, add 1/2 cup cocoa, 1 cup dark chocolate chips, 1 cup butterscotch chips. (i don't use nuts because others in my family dislike them!). makes a dark chocolate, chewy brownie with little butterscotch chunks!

Originally Posted by gemlady

For me it depends on the nut. No filberts/hazelnuts for me.
depends on the nut for me, too, as i'm allergic to almonds. but love pecans, macadamias, walnuts, filbers/hazelnuts...

 

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I love nuts! I like them atop my salad with dried fruit (as a treat), love nut butters on wasa bread, adore candy where it's whole hazelnut encased in chocolate, love a good chocolate-nut bar, and like nuts in my brownies (or did, don't eat those any more
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ooohhh...think of luscious things like baklava...gotta have nuts!

ps...it was my white chocolate macademia nut cookies that caught the attention of my now dh back right before we began dating
 

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Peanuts are really good with chocolate and so are pecans and walnuts in cookies.
 

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I love almonds - especially chocolate covered ones. Brazil nuts are also a fave.

I prefer nuts in the shell but, they're hard to find, except around Christmas. Bill even bought me a lever-action nutcracker, as I haven't the grip for a conventional one.

Bill likes cashews. Reminds me - Walgreens has them on sale.
 

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I have a couple of severe allergies, one of which is to pine nuts... I had an anaphylactic reaction and couldn't breathe when I had them one time.

Thankfully I'm not allergic to any others, because I love raw almonds and cashews!
 

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Most of my friends & family are nuts. I love nuts.
 

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Look at that!
I am the allergic one!

But only some nuts or lets say things with nut tree oil in them - like bar b q flavours - I have to be careful with the amount of e colours and stuff in them etc! I am so naughty though because most of the time I take the risk and go ahead and eat the stuff that I shouldn't...


I also have "funny turns" with peanuts as well. Sometimes I can eat them othertimes they make me sick!
 

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I love all types of nuts. And I like them everywhere. Plain, in sweets, in salads or in the main dish. My favorite though is chocolate covered almonds.
 

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I'm kind of weird about nuts. I like them, but I don't like them in brownies and cakes. For me it's mostly walnuts, which I like plain, just not in baked goods. I love pecan pie though! So I'm strange and picky...
 

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I love all nuts, in anything. The texture is what does it!

Unfortunately, hubby will not eat them in "food"
Only plain.

So I have to do this one on my own!
 

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Originally Posted by ugaimes

I love to snack on nuts (cashews are my faves), but I don't really like them in my sweets. The only exception I'll make is for pralines- they just wouldn't be pralines without the pecans!
Same here!!!
 
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