Chocolate brownie

Recipe  adapted from a cook book (1000 baking recipes)

Ingredients

Plain chocolate/milk chocolate ( 30% cocoa) – 55 gm

Unsweetened cocoa powder – 45 gm ( roughly ½ cup)

Butter – 110 gm ( ½ cup)

Light brown sugar – 225 gm

Eggs – 2 large

Self raising flour  - 55 gm

Method

Melt  chocolate, butter  and cocoa in a bowl kept on top of a simmering pan of boiling water.

Whisk sugar and eggs with a beater for few  minutes until light and creamy.

Pour in the chocolate mixture and sieve  over the flour and fold until mixed.

Pour the mixture into a greased 8 inch square pan and bake for about 30 -35 minutes or until outside is set centre is soft.

Let the brownie  cool completely before you cut. 

Traditional Brownie

With holiday season around the corner, I have been busy baking edible gifts for friends. This year I tried out few new recipes making my own tweaks and this brownie is one among them. It was a great hit and I think I can confidently say this is the best brownie I have baked so far. Before I go to the recipe let me wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year !

Recipe adapted from Humming bird bakery book

Ingredients

Plain flour – 130 gm

Dark chocolate – 100 gm ( 70 % cocoa)

Milk chocolate – 100 gm( 30 % cocoa)

Unsalted butter – 175 gm

Caster sugar – 350 gm

Eggs – 3 large

Method

Melt chocolate and butter in a bowl over a pan of boiling water

Remove from fire and add sugar. Mix well.

Add flour and mix.

Finally break 3 eggs and combine well until smooth.

The batter should fall like a ribbon.

Pour the batter into a  prepared 8 inch square pan and bake in preheated oven at 170 degree for 30-35 minutes.It should be flaky on top and soft in the centre.

Cut into square pieces and enjoy !

Katharine Hepburn Brownies and Happy holidays !

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New year

 

With Holiday season just around the corner I wanted to do this post  before it was  too late ! Whole food blogging world is full of Christmas bakes and I was feeling a bit left out and wanted to whip up something quick for you all and this Katherine Hepburn Brownies fitted the bill perfectly. It is literally a one bowl brownie, just stir everything together in a bowl and pop it an oven and a delicious brownie will be ready is less than 1 hour. They are perfect to gift for friends or to munch on with a cup of milk. I have to say, for a chocoholic like me, this brownies were kind of addictive. I made this cookies for giving it to a friend and good that I packed half of it to her or else I would have ended up eating whole lot of it in a single sitting.

Those who are wondering about the name of this recipe, its named after Katherine Hepburn (actress) who contributed this awesome recipe to us. I gave a little twist to the recipe by adding cashewnuts instead of walnuts and I think that lifted up the taste to a new level, I absolutely loved the cashewnuts in brownies and even my hubby who is not chocolate lover ate quite a lot !

Recipe source – Joy of baking

Ingredients

Dark Chocolate ( 70 % cocoa ) – 60 gm

Unsatled butter – 113 gm / ½ cup   

Granulated White Sugar – 200 gm /  1cup

Eggs – 2 large

Vanilla extract – ½ tsp

Plain flour/ Maida – 30 gm / ¼ cup

Salt – ¼ tsp

Chopped cashewnuts / walnuts – 100 gm

Method

1. Take butter and dark chocolate in a heat proof bowl and place them over a simmering pan of hot water until its melted.
2. Add sugar and stir in.
3. Break 2 eggs,add vanilla extract and stir in.
4. Add the flour, chopped nuts and stir in.
5. Pour the batter into a greased 8 inch square cake tin and bake in a preheated oven at 165 degree Celcius for 30-35 minutes or until a tooth pick inserted comes out clean.  

Photo shoot at Farmers market and Chocolate fudge brownie recipe

Last weekend was a very productive one for me, it was Bloggers Buzz BBPC session 3 and this time it was outdoors in a busy sunday market to capture the fall colours. This time it was a group of six of us, Manjiri, Nisha, Nupur, Suchi, Gayatri and me.  The market was very colourful that day with all colourful pumkins around and we had fun shooting the coloured beauties. Smell of amazing food was all over the market and it was really hard to control all the tempatations while shooting the pictures. The Whole experience of going to market is really wonderful, seeing all the fresh local produce and the are comparatively cheaper to the supermarket ones and the great thing is they are local and organic too !I am definitely going to go often to farmers market  and get hold of some fresh local organic produce :) I am not going to talk more about it, let  the pictures speak more about it ! 

Coming to todays post its Chocolate fudge brownies I took  for a Halloween party at my friends place. Halloween is only tomorrow but we already  had a dressing up party  at my friends place. It was indeed fun to watch kids enjoying themselves, probably they were all sugar high after all the candies they ate. We had  great party, the food were contributed by all mums and this brownies were my contribution for the party. It was so chocolatey, yumm and  very rich too ! I had book marked this recipe from Rias space a long time back but since it was rich I was waiting for an occasion to try it and this party seemed like a perfect occassion . If  you are chocolate lover like me, I am sure you will love it and its perfect for taking to a kids party !

Ingredients ( makes 25 brownies )

Recipe adapted from Rias collection

(The cup I use for measurement is  a 200 ml cup)

Plain flour/ maida - 175 gm/ 1 1/2 cup

Cocoa powder - 2tbs

Instant Coffee powder - 1 tsp

Dark chocolate - 300 gm (70 % cocoa )

Eggs - 5 (large )

Granulated sugar - 200 gm/ 1cup 

Light Brown sugar - 100 gm / 3/4 cup

Unsalted Butter - 200 gm

Vanilla extract - 2 tsp

Salt - 1 tsp

Method

• In a big bowl take 300 gms of chopped dark chocolate, coffee powder and 200 gm butter and place them over a simmering pan of water until butter and chocolate melts. 
• Meanwhile in mixing bowl measure plain flour, cocoa powder, salt and mix with a spoon and keep it aside.
• Add both the sugars to  the chocolate mixture and stir until dissolved.
• Break 3 eggs into the bowl and whisk until combined.
• Break 2 more eggs, add vanilla extract and stir in ( donot over mix)
• Finally add the flour mixture and fold in with a rubber spatula.
• Pour the batter into a prepared cake tin and bake them in a preheated oven at 180 degree celcious for 35-40 minutes or until a tooth pick inserted comes out with moist crumbs
• Let it cool completely in the tin and then cut them into squares.