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These brownie sandwich cookies are all kinds of yum.

And so tasty that I could have eaten them just like this.

Wait… I did do that.

I had to stop myself so I would have enough cookies left to take pictures of them doubled up for sweet little sandwiches.

That’s right, I decided to pipe circles of vanilla buttercream on half of them…

And fill the centers with caramel.

Because caramel is the right thing to do.

I used my pink decorating bags to pipe the buttercream and love them!

Okay, time to make the sandwiches. Gently press the tops on to secure all that deliciousness in place.

They stack up so sweet.

And taste even sweeter with that hidden surprise of caramel inside. Soooo YUM!

Brownie Caramel Sandwich Cookies
Makes 12 sandwich cookies

12 oz dark chocolate (I used Guittard Bittersweet 74% Cacao)
7 tablespoons butter, salted
1/3 cup all purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
3 eggs

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees farenheit and line baking sheets with parchment paper.
• Place butter and 10 ounces of the chocolate in a heatproof bowl. Position the bowl over a pot of simmering water. Stir occasionally until the chocolate is melted and smooth. Set aside to cool.
• Chop remaining 2 ounces of chocolate into small pieces and set aside.
• In a small bowl, whisk together flour and baking powder and set aside.
• Mix sugar, eggs and vanilla in a stand mixer on medium high for about 8 minutes.
• Add melted chocolate to the sugar mixture and fold until combined.
• Then add flour and remaining chopped chocolate and stir until just combined and the flour has disappeared.
• Let rest for about five minutes and then scoop dough onto prepared baking sheet about three inches apart.
• Bake for 8 minutes.

Caramel Filling
1 cup sugar
6 tablespoons butter, salted
1/2 cup heavy whipping cream

• Heat sugar in a medium pot stirring constantly with a wire whisk. The sugar will turn clumpy and then melt before turning into a thick amber-colored liquid. As soon as this happens (Be careful not to allow the sugar to burn) immediately add butter, whisking until completely melted. Remove from heat and slowly add cream. Whisk until combined and smooth. Pour into a glass jar and set aside to cool and thicken. Note: This makes more than you’ll need for the cookies, but you can store in the refrigerator up to two weeks and then reheat to use over ice cream or other treats.

Frosting
12 tablespoons butter, salted
2 cups confectioner’s sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon heavy whipping cream

• Using a mixer, beat butter until smooth and creamy. Slowly add confectioners’ sugar and continue beating until combined. Add vanilla and heavy cream and mix until combined.
• Pipe buttercream circles on half of the brownie cookies. Fill the centers with thickened caramel and gently press remaining brownie cookies on top to sandwich.

Enjoy!

Note: This photo is of a second batch I made where the cookies came out a little more mounded. Just use a 1/2 cup of flour instead of 1/3 and 5 tablespoons of butter instead of 7 in the above recipe. They were good this way too, but the flatter cookies were tastier.

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pepperandpals:

A vicious dinosaur attack.

heckabucky:

man, teenaged girls aren’t allowed to have a genuine interest in anything without being ridiculed for it. if a girl likes ugg boots and starbucks she’s stupid and stereotypical, but if she likes combat boots and obscure coffee houses she’s a hipster wannabe and is trying too hard. if a girl listens to boy bands and other popular artists she’s a dumb follower, if she reads comics or plays video games she’s a poser/fake geek girl, if she likes sex she’s a slut but if she doesn’t like sex she’s a prude, if she wears makeup she’s fake but if she doesn’t wear makeup she’s a slob, if she has low self-esteem she needs to learn to love herself but if she has high self-esteem she’s overconfident and vain, if she’s interested in politics she’s a crazy social justice warrior but if she prefers to stay out of social matters she’s a dumb airhead. girls are literally mocked for every single thing they like or do, no matter what those things are, and i’m really really sick of it.

liminy-lemony:

askfordoodles:

moja-moja:

cuteness–overload:

I only wish more people were like this crow.. (source)

This is proof that they are watching us… always. Constantly trying to blend in with us so that when the assimilation is complete we will never suspect their world-comination plan coming.

I for one welcome our feathered environment-concious overlords

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Reconstrucción del taller de Leonardo Da Vinci


Taller de Pablo Picasso


Taller de Pierre-Auguste Renoir


Taller de Paul Cézanne


Taller de Gustav Klimt


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Taller de Edvard Munch


Taller de Francis Bacon


Taller de Salvador Dalí


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Hovertext: Oddly enough, I didn't realize this one would go up on Father's Day.

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I love cooking my vegetables on the grill in the summer. It doesn't take very long and the vegetables taste incredible when edges get all charred. The best way to do this is to purchase a grill pan (or two) or vegetable basket so the vegetables don't fall through the grates and just spritz the vegetables with a little olive oil and season with salt and pepper. They also sell disposable ones in the supermarket which also work fine.

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Texas governor Greg Abbott OK's ban on healthcare provider's non-abortion-related services for the poor. Read the rest

Following the announced removal of the popular symbol of slavery and racism from state capitols, license plates and big box stores, online retail giants are following suit.

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calypsoburch:

venitaspeaks:

Good birb

I know this pain.

Anything to put off writing this paper.

micdotcom:

Do you need any more proof of the racist double standard in the media? 

The white shooter in a rampage killing gets a smiling childhood photo and an uncritical look at how his actions were influenced by the Internet. A black man who saved his own mother from a hail of bullets, though, has his “troubled past” highlighted. But wait, the treatment of the black man gets even worse.

This is what systemic racism looks like.

actionables:

Because news cameras are apparently only there if looting and protests are mentioned, here are some shots from the march for peace in Charleston yesterday. In case you missed it, thousands marched to Ravenel Bridge, holding hands in prayer and unity. Yet this doesn’t make news, but an interview with the killer’s friend does. all photos from Twitter

In order to faithfully recreate both the interior and exterior of the Stockholm public library, Swedish builder Linus Minkowsky decided to just build them as separate models. So I guess you could say it’s bigger on the inside! And looking at the end result, I’d say that was a pretty smart idea. Especially since it meant he didn’t have to exhaust the world’s supply of Medium Dark Flesh colored bricks.

Photographer Stephen McMennamy merges his original photography in humorous ways to create what he calls #ComboPhotos: two photos paired to create unexpected situations, usually involving huge constrasts in scale. Tractors and heavy machinery are turned into giant mechanisms for food delivery, while an ice cream cone becomes an actual snowy mountain top. McMennamy is also a creative director at BBDO Atlanta and you can see more of his work here. (via Colossal Submissions)

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• 142857 × 5 = 714285
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The pattern can also be visualized this way:

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nico-de-gallo:

White privilege is being a 21-year-old loser who plots and kills 9 people in their church and when you are confronted by the police, armed, you survive without incident. Later, when you’re escorted to the police station, you are not handcuffed and you even have a bulletproof vest for protection. Meanwhile, the media is already infantilizing you and blaming your actions on anything other than you, even though you planned this attack for 6 months. No one is asking why White men are so violent when 87% of mass killings in America have been committed by White men and nobody’s calling you a terrorist when your very intent was to cause terror.

living400lbs:

amaditalks:

“I have a dream that one day white peoples will care about black people dying without Jon Stewart telling them they should.” Clint Smith III

I am glad that Jon Stewart said what he said. I’m glad that he’s getting through to people.  But I wish more people would listen to the black people first. 

dcblogs writes with these snippets from a ComputerWorld story about a study that says nearly a third of all data-center servers are are comatose ("using energy but delivering no useful information"). What's remarkable is this percentage hasn't changed since 2008, when a separate study showed the same thing. ... A server is considered comatose if it hasn't done anything for at least six months. The high number of such servers "is a massive indictment of how data centers are managed and operated," said Jonathan Koomey, a research fellow at Stanford University, who has done data center energy research for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. "It's not a technical issue as much as a management issue."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

captain-snark:

the shitty thing about depression/anxiety is the fact that you live with it so long and so much that you forget how insidious it actually is. When you can’t do something and you think it’s because you’re lazy and unmotivated and then you have an up day and you get so much stuff done and you don’t think about how it’s because you’re having an up day. That this is literally how people without mental illness function