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When I was a teenager, I wasn’t allowed to get a job. My “job,” I was told, was to get good grades. So, in order to make a little bit of spending money, I started making brownies and selling them at school. I quickly became known as “Brownie Girl,” and it would be a miracle of my batch of brownies for the day even made it to lunchtime. Some of my friends still talk about them.
It’s hard to believe that this happened about half of my lifetime ago. And, back then, my brownies were made using boxed brownie mix. My friends still insist that I did something magical to the brownies, when all I ever really did was add a little bit of vanilla extract to my brownie batter. Brownies became such a staple of my everyday life that, after high school, I went through a period where I absolutely couldn’t stand them. I’m over it now, but it took a very long time. These days, my brownies are made from scratch. (more…)