Brownies

Instant brownie mix is for wussies.

This recipe makes the best brownies ever.

• 80g unsifted flour
• ¼ tsp baking soda
• ¼ tsp salt
• 70g butter
• 140g sugar
• 2 tbsp water
• 150g plain chocolate
• 150g plain chocolate chips
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 2 eggs
• 70g chopped walnuts

Note that above, where it says "chocolate", it means chocolate. If you make these brownies with "cooking chocolate", "chocolate style cake covering", or, gods forbid, Hershey bars, then things will not go well for you.

1. Preheat oven to 325°F / 163°C / gas mark 3.
2. Combine flour, baking soda and salt
3. Place butter, sugar and water in small saucepan; bring just to boil. Remove from heat.
4. Add 150g chocolate and vanilla extract. Stir until chocolate melts and mixture is smooth. Transfer to large bowl.
5. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
6. Gradually blend in flour mixture.
7. Stir in chocolate chips and nuts.
8. Spread into greased 9-inch square baking pan.
9. Bake at 325°F / 163°C / Gas mark 3 for 30 minutes
10. Cut when cold.

Chocolate Syrup Brownies

1/2 cup butter or margarine
1 cup sugar
4 eggs
1 16 ounce can (1 1/2 cups) chocolate syrup
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup chopped walnuts
Quick Chocolate Glaze

Quick Chocolate Glaze: Combine 2/3 cup sugar, 3 tablespoons milk, and 3 tablespoons butter. Heat till boiling; boil 30 seconds. Stir in 1/2 cup semisweet chocolate pieces till melted.

Grease a 13x9x2 inch baking pan. Beat butter for 30 seconds; add sugar and beat till fluffy. Add eggs and beat just till blended. Stir in syrup, then flour. Stir in walnuts. Turn into pan. Bake in a 350° oven for 30 - 35 minutes. Cool slightly; pour Quick Chocolate Glaze atop. Cool. Cut into bars. Makes 32.

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Blonde Brownies

2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 cup butter or margarine
2 cups packed brown sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup chopped walnuts

Grease a 13x9x2 inch baking pan. Combine flour, baking powder, and 1/4 teaspoon salt. Melt butter; remove from heat. Stir in sugar. Add eggs and vanilla; stir till blended. Stir dry ingredients and walnuts into sugar mixture. Spread in pan. Bake in a 350° oven 20 - 25 minutes. Cut into bars while warm. Makes 48.

Brownies to Die From

I found this recipe in a package of Hershey's cocoa. Its original name was "Deep Dish Brownies", but I don't think that name does them justice. On the stained slip of paper, between the title and the list of ingredients, is a question, in italics:

Has a brownie ever been too rich, too thick or too moist?

I think not, my friends.

It is ridiculously easy to make these brownies. You will need:

• 3/4 cup butter, melted
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
• 3 eggs
• 3/4 cup unsifted all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup cocoa*
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt (optional)

Blend melted butter, sugar, and vanilla in a mixing bowl. Add eggs; beat well with spoon. Combine flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt; gradually add to egg mixture until well blended. Spread in greased 8-inch square baking pan. Bake at 350 degrees (F) for 40 to 45 minutes or until brownie begins to pull away from edges of pan. Cool; cut into squares.

Share and enjoy!

* Of course the recipe calls for Hershey's cocoa, but you need not feel constrained by this fact. I have made these brownies with many different kinds of cocoa - Hershey's, Penzeys, Nestle, Scharffen-Berger, Ah!Laska. They are all different, and all good.

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liontamer says Hey, I made these the other day for the staffs of my school and my Board of Education. They all swooned and demanded the recipe.

Curiously chocolatey Choc-Chip Brownies (Makes 15) Ingredients: 110g butter
50g unsweetened chocolate
2 eggs (beaten)
225g granulated sugar
50g plain flour (sifted)
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
110g chopped nuts
100g Chocolate chips

Pre-heat the oven to gas-mark 4, 350 degrees farenheit, 180 degrees celsius.
Grease a baking tin measuring approx 7 x 11 inches and line with greaseproof paper.

Firstly melt the butter and chocolate together in the top of a double saucepan or in a basin placed above simmering water (break the chocolate into small pieces). When this is done stir in the other ingredients and pour the mixture into the baking tin.

Bake in the oven for roughly half an hour, until the centre of the mixture feels springy (don't over cook it, it will firm up as it cools).
Sprinkle some more chocolate chips onto the mixture straight after you remove it from the oven and leave the mixture to cool for a few minutes then cut it into pieces and transfer them to a wire rack to finish cooling.

Vegan brownies

I have no idea how well these resemble the real McCoy, but they're tasty in their own right. And they contain chocolate, so I guess that's enough reason... The simplicity of preparation might be ideal for making them with kids. As the batter also doesn't contain any egg, anyone is free to lick the bowl clean.

2 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups sugar (including some vanilla sugar)
1 cup (dutch processed) cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup oil
1 cup water

Mix the solid ingredients together before pouring in the liquid ingredients. Mix into a nice batter. Pour the batter into an oiled tin (approx. 8x8 in.) and bake in an oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for about 30 minutes, or until a skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean.

Optional ingredients could be (upto) 1 cup of chopped nuts or some chili powder (I use 1/2 teaspoon, but as either the strength of your chili powder or your mileage may vary, try how much you like for yourself).

Ingredients:

• 110g butter
• 130g Lindt 70% chocolate
• 4 eggs
• 100g flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 220g nuts (I use pecans or walnuts)
• 450g sugar
  • 100g molassas sugar
  • 200g dark demerera
  • 75g maple syrup
  • 75g white cane sugar

And also:

• Baking tin approximately 144² inches in area (30cm x 30cm) and a few inches deep.
• a large bowl, a glass mixing bowl and a saucepan with a smaller diameter
• A wooden spoon and a sharp knife
• Greaseproof paper, 1 sheet thereof

Instructions:

• Preheat oven to 180^oc
• Grease tin with butter and line with a big sheet of greaseproof paper.
• Melt butter and chocolate, both broken into bits, in a glass bowl above a pan of boiling water.
• Mix everything together in the big bowl, mmm
• Pour it into the tin, stick tin in oven, leave for about 30 minutes, have a check. If it's browning nicely, starting to pull away from the edges of the tin and you can stick a knife in it and pull it out again cleanly and easily, it's probably done. The mix will probably still be a bit gooey, that's fine, as it cools it firms up.
• If it's not ready, give it another 5/10 minutes and check again. The cooking time really will depend on your oven, and does not scale linearly based on volume of brownie production.
• Leave it to cool in the tin for a while, then take it out, leave it to cool a bit further, chop into bits of an appropriate size.

Starsong's absolutely fantastic brownies

I have made these for my neighbors, and they're always asking when I'm going to bake these again. They're very similar to the Deep Dish Brownies a few writeups up, but I've added a few variations.

You'll need:

1-1/2 cup white sugar
3/4 cup unsalted butter (1-1/2 sticks)
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
3 large eggs
1/2 tsp salt (option)
1-1/2 tsp vanilla
2 squares bitter baking chocolate and/or 1/2 cup cocoa powder

Method:
Preheat oven to 350F. Grease an eight-inch brownie pan with butter or oil of choice.
melt together baking chocolate and butter. I use the microwave, and with my older one it only takes about one minute on full power.
Add this mix to the sugar, beat well. Add in the vanilla and eggs, beating well to combine.
Mix together the baking powder, flour, salt and cocoa powder. Incorperate this into the wet ingredients, until a batter is formed.

Now here comes the fun. You could bake these as is, or you can use my variations, or make your own.

Add melted caramel to the top. Cover with bits of almond or pecans.
Layer this with caramel and pecans or chocolate chips, making turtle brownies.
Add in cream cheese if desired, but layer it between the rest of the batter.

Once you've gotten your masterpiece assembled, toss it in the oven for forty to forty-five minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean.

Cool, cut into squares and watch them disappear.

Note: these brownies are not easy to cut cleanly. I always have trouble.