From Our Kitchen to Yours

Andon-Reid Inn Bed & Breakfast, Waynesville, North Carolina

Blood Orange Chocolate Brownies

Food can connect us to some of our most memorable moments. For innkeeper Brenda Beznoska, who grew up traveling for her father’s career in the military and eventually her own, these delicious brownies never fail to remind her of home. And, if there’s one ingredient that elevates this dessert, it’s the recent addition of a locally sourced blood-orange-pressed olive oil. Served every afternoon at the historic Andon-Reid Inn Bed & Breakfast, guests can’t get enough of these fresh-baked treats.

INGREDIENTS

• ¾ cup flour
• 1 ½ cup sugar
• ½ cup cocoa powder
• ½ tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp salt
• ½ cup blood orange olive oil
• ¼ cup vegetable oil
• 1 ½ tsp vanilla
• 3 eggs
• 1 cup chocolate chips

INSTRUCTIONS

• Preheat oven to 350F.
• Grease bottom of 9x9 baking dish.
• Mix all dry ingredients together.
• Add oils, vanilla, eggs and mix well.
• Stir in chocolate chips.
• Bake for 35 – 40 minutes, until a toothpick inserted 2 inches from edge comes out clean.
• Allow to cool and cut into 1/5 inch squares.