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Spent some time recently researching brownie recipes and working out what did which. Came up with this recipe, did everything I wanted a brownie to do - plus it's dead easy to make :-)
These suckers are so good my tai-chi teacher had 2 (and he's a serious diabetic) Brownies so good they're worth going into a coma for ! lol
Ingredients
6 oz Milk chocolate (cadburys is best but any good milk chocolate will do and peppermint aero works a treat)
2 oz dark chocolate - 75% cocoa solids or higher
3 oz unsalted butter
4 oz white sugar
2 oz dark brown sugar
2 tsp vanilla extract
3 eggs lightly beaten
4 oz general purpose flour
2 oz low-cal choc drink.
Lightly greased 8 inch square baking tin
I use low cal choc drinks as they taste a helluva lot more chocolatey then cocoa.
I pick them up at pound/buck stores :-)
Method
Selection of chocolate
Break milk & plain chocolate into large glass bowl, add butter and Microwave on high for 1 -2 minutes.
Stir untill everything is melted and smooth.
Add sugars and vanilla extract and stir till thoroughly mixed.
Add the beaten egg - approximately one egg at a time and stir until mixed in smooth before adding more egg.
Sift choc-drink and flour into the bowl and stir untill it forms a smooth batter.
Tip any little bits of chocolate left in the sieve into the mix as well.
Pour batter into baking tin and smooth mix over so that it's evenly distributed.
bake in the bottom half/centre of an oven at about 325 for 40-50 minutes.
brownie is done when there is a firm surface crust that holds a dent.
IMPORTANT.
unlike normal cakes - brownies are better slightly undercooked than overcooked. So if in doubt take it out of the oven earlier rather than later.
This particular recipe is for soft, fudgey brownies, don't expect it to be firm in the centre ;-).
cool completely (even better after an hour or two in the fridge) before cutting into small squares.
And that's it.
I've made them with the cadburys dairy milk and with the peppermint aero now. Both were seriously moreish.
I store them in small plastic containers (approx 12 squares to a container) and freeze them. Otherwise they don't last the day :-)
This is a great recipe for kids as it's one bowl, one wooden spoon and a quick burst in the microwave :-)
Although - as with all baking - it really helps if you have a self zeroing scales.
Anyway try them out and let me know what you think :-)
These suckers are so good my tai-chi teacher had 2 (and he's a serious diabetic) Brownies so good they're worth going into a coma for ! lol
The Recipe
Ingredients
6 oz Milk chocolate (cadburys is best but any good milk chocolate will do and peppermint aero works a treat)
2 oz dark chocolate - 75% cocoa solids or higher
3 oz unsalted butter
4 oz white sugar
2 oz dark brown sugar
2 tsp vanilla extract
3 eggs lightly beaten
4 oz general purpose flour
2 oz low-cal choc drink.
Lightly greased 8 inch square baking tin
I use low cal choc drinks as they taste a helluva lot more chocolatey then cocoa.
I pick them up at pound/buck stores :-)
Method
Selection of chocolate
Break milk & plain chocolate into large glass bowl, add butter and Microwave on high for 1 -2 minutes.
Stir untill everything is melted and smooth.
Add sugars and vanilla extract and stir till thoroughly mixed.
Add the beaten egg - approximately one egg at a time and stir until mixed in smooth before adding more egg.
Sift choc-drink and flour into the bowl and stir untill it forms a smooth batter.
Tip any little bits of chocolate left in the sieve into the mix as well.
Pour batter into baking tin and smooth mix over so that it's evenly distributed.
bake in the bottom half/centre of an oven at about 325 for 40-50 minutes.
brownie is done when there is a firm surface crust that holds a dent.
IMPORTANT.
unlike normal cakes - brownies are better slightly undercooked than overcooked. So if in doubt take it out of the oven earlier rather than later.
This particular recipe is for soft, fudgey brownies, don't expect it to be firm in the centre ;-).
cool completely (even better after an hour or two in the fridge) before cutting into small squares.
And that's it.
I've made them with the cadburys dairy milk and with the peppermint aero now. Both were seriously moreish.
I store them in small plastic containers (approx 12 squares to a container) and freeze them. Otherwise they don't last the day :-)
This is a great recipe for kids as it's one bowl, one wooden spoon and a quick burst in the microwave :-)
Although - as with all baking - it really helps if you have a self zeroing scales.
Anyway try them out and let me know what you think :-)
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