Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Brownies

This is probably the best recipe I have ever had for brownies. It is pretty much fail proof. You will ALWAYS have soft chocolaty delicious tasting brownies with this recipe.

Enjoy!





The things you will need




Melt the butter "bain Marie" style. I fill a pan with water and put a bowl with my broken chocolate in it. Dont let the water boil or it will go into the bowl.

its ready, sit and chucks will melt

break the eggs in your bowl


nice and fluffy

add the sugar and beat together till fluffy
put the butter in bowl and melt
done
add flower and stop beating now just stir


add baking powder
add salt and vanilla if you like



add your rich melted chocolate :))


add butter

chop up your nuts


add them
once all ingredients are mixed pour into your baking dish,
the French always line their bowl with parchment or wax paper,
I started doing this and it's so much easier, nothing ever sticks

bake at 150c for 20 min




with your chocolaty fingers set the timer, set it for 15 minutes then check on the brownies, Dont over cook, knife should come out slightly wet for moist brownies. Cook another
5 min if not done.



Forgot to take a picture of it when it came out of the oven,
here is whats left of them, these are seriously good



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1 level teaspoon baking powder

or

3/4 cup or any nut you want or a mix of nuts  
about 1/2 cup (3.5 oz)  dark chocolate (75 % cocoa ) 
1/4 plain flour      
1 level teaspoon baking powder     
¼ level teaspoon salt        
1/4 tsp of vanilla optional 


Pre-heat the oven to gas mark 4, 350°F (180°C)
Begin by chopping the nuts roughly, not too small, put the chocolate and butter together in a large mixing bowl fitted over a saucepan of barely simmering water, making sure the bowl doesn't touch the water.

Allow the chocolate to melt, mix it until smooth, remove it from the heat and simply stir in all the other ingredients until thoroughly blended.

Now spread the mixture evenly into the prepared tin and bake on the centre shelf of the oven for 25 minutes or until it's slightly springy in the centre. Remove the pan from the oven and leave it to cool for 10 minutes before cutting

2 comments:

careyevan said...

Hey, glad I found your blog again! These look seriously good but I have a couple questions. Is it baking soda or baking powder? And how long do they cook? 25 min or 12+5? Carey

Synthia said...

oops fixed the confusion. It should be baking powder.
Bake for 20 min then check them, you dont want to over cook them they will dry out. Your boys will love them :))