Recipe: Super Dark Brownies

It has been a long time since I blog and thought I should share some recipes that I found, amended and used over the weekend (yes, again). One of them is a super simple brownie recipes I found on allrecipes UK. In fact, I was amazed at how simple and quick it is for me to have the brownie ready.

The cracks are due to my inexperience handling.

Added the chocolate topping, for both aesthetic and flavouring reason

Cutting into squares for easier sharing =)

By looking at the ingredients, it is very easy to change the recipe base on personal preference and taste. If you have an hour to spare, just try it. You will have ample time to sit down and enjoy the piece of brownie.

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Super Dark Brownies

Prep time: 4 mins
Cook time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 350g caster sugar
• 225g butter, room temperature
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 4 eggs
• 225g plain flour
• 60g dark cocoa powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 100g chocolate chips (or 60g walnut halves)

Topping

• 75g chocolate chips
• 25g butter
• 1 teaspoon salt (optional)
• 1 teaspoon mint flavouring (optional)

Method:

1. Preheat the oven at 180 deg C / Gas mark 4. Prepare a square baking tin.
2. Whisk the butter till light and creamy.
3. Add in sugar, vanilla extract. Mix them evenly together.
4. Add in the eggs, one by one and mix them well.
5. Fold in the flour, dark cocoa powder, baking powder and salt together. Mix well.
6. Add the chocolate chips into the mixture.
7. Pour into the greased/or well-lined tin.
8. Baked for 20mins. Cool it when it is done.
9. Prepare the toppings. Melt the chocolate chips and butter over double boil.
10. Cool it a little and pour it into a pipping bag.
11. Start decorating your brownie.
12. Slice the brownies into equal square portions, and serve warm or cold.

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Notes:

• If you are using smaller oven, like me, do rotate the tray inside the oven after 10minutes.
• Feel free to replace ingredients like cocoa powder (dark or normal) and filling (walnuts or chocolate chips). 
• Chocolate chips is chosen as the dark chocolate powder reduce the chocolatey taste we often get from brownie.
• Sugar quantity was reduced from the original recipe I found as we often find brownie too sweet.
• Salt is added to the chocolate topping so as to reduce possible overdose of sweetness and give the brownie a little twist. =)