Saturday, December 11, 2010

Yummy Brownie Recipes

We just had our church Christmas party. I was assigned to make dessert and decided to make some brownies. It turned out real yummy. So if you're looking for a tried and tested yummy brownie recipe, try these out.

Moist Chewy Brownie

Ingredients:
  • 4 oz unsweetened chocolate
  • 1 cup flour (I used superfine flour)
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 1 cup chopped walnuts (optional)
  • 4 eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla essence
Directions:
  • In a saucepan, melt the chocolate and butter.
  • Once melted, add in the sugar. Stir it in until well blended.
  • Add in the eggs gradually as you keep beating the mixture.
  • Put in the vanilla essence
  • Last of all add in the flour and salt.
  • Don't forget the walnuts.
  • Grease a 13" x 9" baking pan and pour in the batter.
  • Bake for 30-40 minutes at 350 degrees fahrenheit. Make sure you don't over bake.
  • Let it cool before your frost it or dust it with powdered sugar (optional).

MINT CHOCOLATE BROWNIES
This recipe comes from BYU

I forgot to take a photo of the brownies. When I remembered, only this last piece was left. The mint icing really makes it super yummy.

Ingredients:
  • 1 cup margarine
  • 1/2 cup cocoa powder
  • 2 tbsp honey
  • 4 eggs
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 1 3/4 cup flour
  • 1/2 tbsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 cup chopped walnuts
Mint Icing ingredients:
  • 5 tbsp margarine
  • Dash of salt
  • 3 tbsp milk
  • 1 tbsp light corn syrup (I used golden syrup)
  • 2 1/3 cup powdered sugar
  • 1/2 tsp mint extract
  • 1-2 drops green food coloring
Directions:
  • In a saucepan, melt the butter and then mix in the cocoa.
  • As you wait for it to cool, mix together eggs, sugar and honey.
  • In a separate container, mix the dry ingredients together - flour, baking powder and salt.
  • Put the dry ingredients with the eggs, sugar, honey. Pour in the melted butter and cocoa too.
  • Mix them all together until well blended.
  • Add in the nuts.
  • Grease a 9-13 baking pan and pour the batter in. Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes.
    Then let cool.
Start preparing the mint icing.
  • Add salt, corn syrup and powdered sugar to the soften margarine.
  • Beat until smooth and fluffy.
  • Mix in the mint extract and the food coloring.
  • Gradually, add in the milk. You want to achieve a consistency slightly thinner than cake frosting.
  • Once the brownies is completely cooled, you can spread the mint icing over.
  • Put in the refrigerator a little while so the icing can become stiff.
  • After you take it out from the fridge, smooth on a layer of chocolate icing.
Chocolate Butter Frosting Recipe
Ingredients:
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 1/4 cup cocoa powder
  • 1/3 cup milk
  • 2 cups powdered sugar (sifted)
Directions:
  • Heat butter, cocoa and milk over low fire.
  • Turn off the heat and add it to the powdered sugar.
  • Beat until nice and smooth.

2 comments:

  1. Looked rich and yummy. Great attempt.

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  2. I love Chocolate brownies with lots of walnut. Yours look really good, I'm salivating now :D

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