Have you experienced a good chocolate-induced coma recently? No? Well, in celebration of (a) me being done with edits on RIPPED and (b) RomanceLandia’s awesome day of RITA and Golden Heart nominations, I thought I’d share the brownie recipe I made up and subsequently used to bring a nation to its knees—and by “nation,” I mean my day-job colleagues, who have encouraged me to patent and sell these motherf*ckers.

“Laced” brownies, fresh from the oven…but I’m not saying what they’re laced with....