Sorry about the late night post but I got hooked onto Sherlock's third season.
However, I did manage to...
Bake brownies!
I found a recipe on some internet site since I'm terrible at baking but the brownies came out quite nice soooooo... Why not share my achievement!
Let's get cooking!
- Grab a bowl that the butter and chocolate will fit into and a sauce pan that is able to contain the bowl. Pour water into the sauce pan, heat it then cover it up with the bowl on top. Make the butter into small pieces and crush the chocolate, then tip it onto the bowl. Stir it occasionally until to mix it until its all melted. Leave it on the side to cool but not solidify.
- While you're waiting for the mxture to cool, stop looking through your Facebook feed and preheat the oven to 160C/gas mark 4 and choose a tin you think fits best (depending on whether you want thick or thin brownies). Cut out a large-ish piece of non-stick parchment to cover both the walls and the base, this will help you lift the brownie out of the tin later on.
- Sieve 85g of flour and 40g of cocoa into a large-ish bowl. Next goes in the 275g of caster sugar and the 3 whole eggs.
- Take out a mixer and mix the mixture (see what I did there) on the highest setting until the conception is mixed completely (all the same colour).
- Next goes in the melted chocolate. Pour it all in and mix with a rubber spatula until, like before, the mixture all has the same colour.
- Throw in the chocolate chips. If you have a whole chocolate bar, then chop it into chunks with a large knife. Mix it again to spread them through.
- Pour the mixture on your parchment paper (which should be in the tray by the way) and even it out.
- Now all you have to do is put the tin onto the middle shelf of your pre-heated oven. I left my brownie in my terrible oven for about 20 minutes, and it burned slightly at the top. I suggest you leave it in for roughly the same amount of time but keep an eye on it. However, the baking time depends on the thickness of your brownies.
- Cut them up in either triangles or square (or circles because yolo) and serve them with christmasy things.
All in all the brownies came out alright they're really soft on the inside but the chocolate chips really add that nice touch of crunch. Of course, me burning them made them dry instead of crispy so that sucks.
One thing I'd change is adding in less sugar just to be able to change the dark chocolate into milk chocolate because they came out quite bitter.
I'm also disappointed that I forgot to buy decorative things to make them more suitable for Christmas but then again its September.
One thing I have to note is that I have taken this recipe from this site:
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1223/bestever-brownies
However I changed it up a bit to make it more straight forward.
I hope you enjoyed and that you will try out this recipe because it is fun baking, for those of you who never tried, and brownies are super Christmasy especially when you decorate them.
See ya'll soon
102 days!
~ Lena
PS These go really well with milk
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