Baseball Brownies à la Mode
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If you’re searching for a quick yet festive dessert for a {belated} Father’s Day, the College World Series, a baseball team party or any other baseball-themed party, look no further. These Baseball Brownies à la Mode are perfect for any baseball fan and the combo of chocolate cake or brownies, vanilla ice cream and raspberry jam is a homerun.
Grandma recently gave my older son baseball mitt and bat cookie cutters. Instead of making cookies for their inaugural use, we cut shapes out of a pan of our favorite chocolate cake. {It would work equally well with brownies or any cake coated with chocolate frosting.}
A scoop of vanilla ice cream centered in the chocolate mitt and decorated with raspberry jam makes the baseball. Our homemade raspberry jam is on the chunkier side and it was a little difficult to pipe exact lines when clumps of berries and seeds got stuck in the tip. I still opted to use the jam {over red icing} because of the natural red color and the aforementioned winning combo of chocolate, vanilla and raspberry. If I was making these for a party and wanted more exact baseball details I would take the time to either strain the jam or make a raspberry coulis.
Taking pictures of this one was hard! My son’s fingers ended up in most of the photos. Looking through my picture file I can hear his excited voice: Mommy, it looks like a baseball! Can I eat it?!
- Vanilla ice cream
- Raspberry Jam
- 2 squares unsweetened chocolate
- ½ cup boiling water
- ½ cup shortening
- 2 cups sugar
- 3 eggs
- 2 cups flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1 tsp vanilla
- Pour the boiling water over the chocolate and stir until the chocolate melts.
- Cream the shortening and the sugar.
- Stir in the eggs and then add the melted chocolate/water mixture.
- Add the flour and baking soda alternately with the buttermilk and vanilla, mixing the ingredients together until a smooth batter forms.
- Pour the cake batter into a greased and floured 9 x 13 pan + a greased and floured 8x8 pan.
- Bake the cake for 30 minutes at 350 degrees or until the cake springs back when lightly pressed and a toothpick comes out clean.
- Let the cake or brownies cool completely so that they do not break or crumble when you are making the shapes.
- Cut out baseball gloves and bats using cookie cutters or patterns.
- Place them on a plate and warm them if desired.
- Top each baseball glove with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
- Spoon some raspberry jam into a piping bag or a Ziploc bag and pipe the baseball stitches.
- Serve the dessert immediately.
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Tue, Jun 19, 2012
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