Step by Step Double Chocolate brownies.

Tomorrow, one of our team is leaving to go on maternity leave. So we are having a lovely bring and share lunch. 

I made chocolate Brownies. 

Here is my recipe. 

Most important is the chocolate

 

ok so the ingredients are. 

14 oz rich dark chocolate (70%)

4oz Butter

4oz caster sugar

3 eggs

8 oz flour

6 oz white chocolate

1 tsp vanilla extract.

preheat the oven to 180 c and line an 8x12 tin with baking parchment

Melt the chocolate in a bowl above a saucepan of water, once the chocolate is nearly melted add the butter to the chocolate and melt until the chocolate and butter is smooth. 

In another bowl, whisk the eggs and sugar with the vanilla extract. 

Add the chocolate to the beaten egg, ensure that the chocolate is not too hot or you will end up with chocolate scrambled egg. 

fold in the flour, then the white chocolate chunks and spread into your pan.

Bake for 15-20 minutes at 180 

cut into chunks while still warm.

I have made it into 28 bite size chunks as it is to share with 20 hungry adults, for afternoon tea I would trim the edges and make into about 12 pieces. 

good enough to eat. 

Brownie love!

It does not look like much but I did manage to create some very lovely brownie's. (my colleagues thought so).

 It was moist, dense, gooey and very very chocolaty !


I would like to share the recipe with you all. If you are on a diet, just stop reading now as this recipe is not for you!


OK ready, 


1lb caster sugar, 
8oz butter, 
200g 85% coco chocolate (2 bars) 
4 oz flour
2 oz coco powder. 
6 eggs. 


Method:
Cut butter into cubes. 
place in a saucepan over a medium heat with the sugar. 
stir until butter is melted and the sugar is starting to dissolve. 
break up the chocolate into pieces and add to the butter and sugar mix. 
stir until chocolate is melted. 
remove from heat and beat the eggs. 
add the beaten egg and stir then quickly add the flour and coco. 


( Ensure that this all happens quickly and that the mixture is not to hot when you add the egg otherwise you will end up with melted chocolate with scrambled egg. )


turn into a roasting tray lined with greased baking parchment and bake for 40  minutes at 180 degrees. 


Yesterday as I was pot-roasting pork, spatchcocking a chicken and running up the brownie's I realised how happy I am being in the kitchen. I love cooking and especially cooking for other people. It does not have to be a 3 course come dine with me feast. I am just as happy making a large chicken pie with braised red cabbage followed by a home made crumble. Roast dinner a speciality and some yummy cakes and bakes as well. 


However, I am not adverse to opening a pasta sauce and throwing it over some cooked pasta (when I am too tired or too lazy). 


Today has been a bit of a disaster! I awoke with a headache which turned into a migraine type headache.(light sensitive, noise sensitive, non responsive to painkiller's or 4 head+ extra wingey)  The office was very thin on the ground and I had some important meetings to attend so I had to battle through to the end. It was not easy especially my 2 hour meeting in the middle of the day! Yes I have had lots to drink. 


Add to this that the ironing board has broken! we have only had it 2 years! the last one lasted 20! 


I am now lead on the sofa, with the blinds closed in the quiet! LSP and the children have had a day out in Wales (I could not go because of my 2 hour meeting). I am going to enjoy the silence while it lasts! 


Happy Monday everyone!

I have never made chocolate brownies

Its amazing I know! 

I am a chocolate brownie virgin. To be honest I didn't really like chocolate brownie's. Which accounts for why I have never really wanted to make them. 

This all changed at Christmas this year, when my lovely sister in law sent us some gourmet chocolate brownie's as a Christmas gift. 

 They were from blue basil brownies and they were awesome. (this is not a sponsored post) 

I have tried other brownie's since but nothing has come close, so this afternoon I am going to give them a try for the first time. I am looking to achieve a heavy, squidgy, dense and lovely brownie. If it turns out well I will post a photo in tomorrow's blog. 

Happy Sunday everyone!