Chewy Chocolate Brownies

This is my recipe for chewy chocolate brownies they are so rich I serve them in little bites but they are incredible moreish.


Ingredients:

150g Plain Chocolate 70% cocoa preferably
125g butter
1 teaspoon of salt
200g Caster sugar
50g Plain flour
25g cocoa powder
3 eggs


Method:

Preheat the oven at 170 degrees C

Prepare a baking tray 30cm by 20 cm and 5 cm deep.  Greasy the tray by rubbing a thin layer of butter over in and then dust it with cocoa powder - this will stop the Brownies from sticking.  If you want to be super sure you can line it with some grease proof paper too!

Break up your pieces of chocolate into a heat proof bowl, add the butter, sugar and salt.

Put half a pan of water on to boil.  

Put your heat proof bowl on top of the saucepan, this is called a bain marie, the steam from the pan of water is what heats up your chocolate, this is so we can control the temperature the chocolate melts at.  

When everything in the bowl has melted, take the bowl off the heat carefully so as not to burn yourself.  

Measure your flour and cocoa powder into a seperate bowl and sift into you melted mixture. 

Stir in well.

Add all three eggs to the mixture and stir well until the mixture starts to look glossy.

Add the baking powder.

Put it in the oven for 25-30 minutes, just so they don't wobble when she shake the baking tin gently.

Cool and cut into squares.

Rich Chocolate Cupcakes!

These cupcakes are so simple to make but so delicious! Here's how I make them...

Ingredients...

125g softened butter

125g golden caster sugar

2 large eggs

2 tablespoons of cocoa powder

a pinch of salt

125g Plain flour

1 teaspoon of  baking powder

Cupcake cases

Cupcake tray

Icing sugar to make them look pretty - optional

Method...

Preheat your oven at 175 degrees C

Cream the butter and sugar together until the mix becomes lighter in colour.

Slowly add one egg at a time and beat into the butter and sugar well.

Add the cocoa powder.  I add a lot because I love the rich chocolate flavour it gives.

Sift in the flour, salt and baking powder together.

Fold the flour and baking powder mix in with a metal spoon. until you have your cake mix.

Spoon your mixture into 12 cup cake cases set in your tray. Put in the oven for 15 minutes.

You are done, try to let it cool before eating - although it can be difficult to avoid the temptation to eat them hot.

Once cool sift some icing sugar over them to make them look pretty.

Chocolate raisin Nutella cake!

This is such a yummy cake!  I love to serve it with Cream and a Cherry compote but it's great as it is too!

Ingredients:

• Cocoa powder 25g
• Butter, salted 125g
• Sugar - golden caster 125g
• Rasiins 150g
• 5ml vanilla extract
• 2 large eggs
• 125g Plain flour
• 5ml baking powder
• Nutella

Preheat oven at 170 degrees C

Grease a 10 inch round cake tray


Mix the butter and sugar together until creamed well.

Add the eggs and beat well.

Add the vanilla, cocoa powder and raisins

Fold in the flour mixed with the baking powder

Pour half your mix into the greased tray and then generously dollop nutella in the centre.  One or two good table spoons of it.

Add the other half of the mix on top.

Bake for 20 - 25 minutes, until the cake feels sponge when you press down on the top of it.

Leave to cool or eat warm!  Both ways are delish!

Nutella cookies!!!

These are crunchy chocolate nutty yumminess! Here's how to make them...

Ingredients:

100g sugar
100g butter
2 tablespoons nutella
300g flour
1 egg

Optional: Peanut butter

Method:

Pre-heat oven to 200 C or 180 C for fan ovens.

Cream the butter and sugar together in a bowl.

Add the Nutella, stirring it in well.

Add the egg and beat into the mix until smooth.

Mix in half the flour and then add the rest of the flour.  Mix it in until you have a ball of cookie dough!


All you have to do now is lightly flour a clean surface, roll it out until it's about 5mm thick and find your favourite cookie cutters.

This made about 25 cookies for us.

Put in the oven for 10 minutes.  Leave to cool then enjoy.

Optional, but delicious: once cooled spread some peanut butter on one cookie and then sandwich it with another cookie.  It's scummy!

Swirly chocolate biscuits

These are really fun to make and fill the biscuit tin for the week too! 

Ingredients: