From Oreo brownies to fluffernutters... our last night in Maryland!

I had a haul of chocolate in the pantry last week that I needed to get used as most of our things will be packed away in storage until we find our new house out in Minneapolis. I was going to choose a new recipe, but then I remembered that we wanted to bring our Realtors a treat to thank them for all the hard work they have done. It took me less than a second to decide to get a batch of the Outrageous Oreo Crunch Brownies in the oven - one of our most favorite and requested recipes.

I have posted about them twice already on the blog, but I have made them countless times for several events. It sure made a dent in our pantry - a pound of butter, over a pound of chocolate and a full package of Oreos... incredibly rich, fudgy and over the top yes, but oh so worth every. single. calorie. Here are the chocolates and butter all melted... it took all of my self-control to leave the mixture alone and not take quality-control samples!

This time we did not use those orange Oreos since it is not quite Halloween yet (even though all of the grocery stores are strewn with Halloween candy and decorations...), so we just went with the good ol' classic kind. Okay, maybe the entire package didn't make it into the brownies - a couple of them quelled the rumbling I had in my stomach while we were taking pictures!

Here's a snap of the finished brownie - I love how clean these brownies cut! You can halve the recipe if you want, but I always make a full batch and keep the extras in the freezer. They hold well and make for a quick dessert when unexpected company arrives!

So, early this morning the movers arrived and now all of our thing are packed and loaded on the large semi.

We're sitting here tonight in a totally empty house except for our laptops, a small TV and a few things we kept aside that will come with us as we start the long drive tomorrow. We already finished all of the leftovers, so what did we do for dinner tonight? Rather than trying to find someplace to eat out, we decided to just have one of our favorite comfort foods - fluffernutters! Just a couple slices of soft whole-grain bread slathered with homemade peanut butter and of course, a few spoonfuls of sticky Marshmallow Fluff.

They do have Marshmallow "creme" out in the Midwest, but they don't sell this out there (not that I remember at least), so we did make sure to buy a few tubs to take along with us!

We had lots of fun out here, but we are looking forward to our next adventure in coming back home to Minneapolis! Lots of great memories here - especially doing our first total kitchen renovation! Figures, we get it just the way we've always wanted and now we are leaving it behind! We did make sure to run outside and say goodbye to our Alpaca friends next door - we fed them a few handfuls of grass... Jeff tried to get the movers to sneak one inside the truck, but they didn't think that was such a good idea!

Oh well... We may miss a couple days of posting as we will be driving, but we'll post updates as we can!

Minneapolis, I hope you are well-stocked with butter and chocolate because here we come!