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Last week, guys, last week… Wait, no. We cannot start a week as dreary as this one already looks from my Monday perch ( view, plus ten thousand loose toys and dark gray rain outside) with a complaint, it would not be good. But I have to tell you where I was most of last week because it’s so traumatizing, I cannot keep it on the inside any longer: I was touring . Like, school, big old public schools with lots of kids. School for five year-old giants. School that my will require next fall. It was terrifying. It was all-consuming. I tried to swim off my anxiety in the middle of each day, only to return home to find that the sun had basically set at 2:30 p.m. rending that whole cooking-and-natural-light-photography thing I love so much impossible. It was not my favorite week.
Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)
Counts 7 of 9 ingredients — the other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume — 7 portions →
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Flour | 1 cup (125g) all-purpose | 455 |
| Chocolate | 1 oz (28g) semisweet | 155 |
| Butter | 1 tbsp (14g) | 102 |
| Egg | 1 large egg (50g) | 78 |
| Sugar | 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated | 49 |
| Vanilla | 1 tsp extract (4ml) | 12 |
| Salt | 1 tsp (6g) | 0 |
| Seed | not in our table | 0 |
| Bean | not in our table | 0 |
Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.
Ingredients
- 3 large egg whites
- 3/4 cup (90 grams) confectioners sugar
- 1/2 cup (65 grams) all-purpose flour
- 1/3 cup (5 1/3 tablespoons or 75 grams) unsalted butter, melted
- 1/4 teaspoon table salt
- Seeds from a 2-inch segment of vanilla bean, or 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract or paste
- 4 ounces (115 grams) bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped
- Sprinkles or other decorations (optional)