Brownies

"Alex Rast" > wrote in message
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> Upcoming in about a month or so my young nephew is having a birthday, and
> I'd like to bake him a cake. He'll be 4. Having observed his current
eating
> preferences, I have some requirements.
>
> First, it must either be able to be cut up into small, bite-size pieces
> (i.e. not slices but pieces - about the size of a pea) without affecting
> the ability to get the total experience of the cake in one such piece, or
> it must be able to be picked up with small hands and eaten as is, such
that
> one entire dimension will fit into a small mouth (for example, a large
roll
> doesn't work - you can't fit it in your mouth, but a large breadstick does
> - it's easy to get the thin axis in your mouth and bite off a piece). A
> cake that you could slice into parts of this shape would also be fine, as
> long as the slice would not then crumble once picked up or bitten into,
nor
> have to be held in a specific way (such as, for instance, carefully
> horizontal and icing-side up). The general concept is that it should not
be
> in some way unwieldy to eat with hands.
>
> Second, it shouldn't be excessively messy to eat. Believe it or not, this
> is a desire of the nephew as much as the parents - he hates getting messy
> or sticky.
>
> Third, it should be powerfully chocolatey - of the same level of
> chocolatiness as desserts I typically make (see various recipes I've
posted
> to get the idea). In other words, intense. And it mustn't be dry at that
> intensity level.
>
> If it features blueberries, or goes great with blueberries on the side,
> that'd be a huge plus as well.
>
> What suggestions do you have?
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> Alex Rast
>
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