With so many of our campers kicking off winter break today, we figured it was a good time to bring a “taste”(pun, intended) of the 12523 to all of your homes! Enjoy these two camp-themed activities…
Chef Ally’s OMG Brownie Recipe
This recipe is a Cook Shack staple! Chef Ally’s signature brownies with the “campy” s’mores style addition of graham crackers, marshmallows and chocolate. Happy baking and bon appetite!
INSTRUCTIONS
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees
Grease your baking pan to prevent sticking
Add 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips (or whichever kind you have!) and 1 stick of unsalted butter into medium saucepan. Place on stove over LOW heat and slowly stir with cooking spoon until fully melted. This may take a few minutes; keep mixture moving for smooth consistency (and so nothing burns). When fully melted, take off heat.
Add 3/4 light brown sugar and 3/4 cups granulated white sugar to melted chocolate chip and butter mix. Mix well with whisk or cooking spoon. It’s OK to substitute whatever sugar you have available! Mixture should be pretty thick when finished.
Make sure your mixture is cooled. Add four eggs. Mix well. Mixture should now have the consistency of batter.
Add 1tsp vanilla. Mix in.
Slowly add 1 cup of flour. Fully integrate the flour into your batter. Add it slowly so your flour doesn’t get all over the place!
Add 1/2 tsp salt and mix in. Put batter mixture to the side.
Line the bottom of your greased baking pan with graham crackers. Don’t crumble them! Treat the graham crackers “like a puzzle” and fit in the pieces as best you can. It’s ok if you need to break some into smaller pieces, and it’s a little uneven.
Pour the batter into the pan on top of the graham crackers. Make sure you spread it out evenly and don’t get any on the sides, which will burn!
Put pan into the oven for 35 minutes.
Remove from oven, and add mini marshmallows (or larger marshmallows torn up) and 1 cup mini chocolate chips to the top of your brownies. Feel free to add more or less marshmallows or chocolate chips depending on your preferences! You could also do 1/2 pan regular brownies, 1/2 with s’more topping !
Put pan back into the oven for 10 minutes, until marshmallows and chocolate on top melty. If you’d like, you can broil for 30 seconds to get that golden s’more quality on your marshmallows afterwards.
Let sit and cool for around 40 minutes and then eat! YUM!
Scaticonnections
Move over Wordle… Connections is the new New York Times game of the moment. Jamie Segal created a Scatico version of the fun, quick game at the link below!
For those unfamiliar with Connections, essentially there is a “board” with 16 words, and the goal is to group the words together into the correct 4 categories of 4 words each! Here is a screenshot of the official explanation of the game rules. Click on the four words you think belong together, and click “submit” to see if they form a category!