SQUIDGY BROWNIES

Heyy there!


This recipe is quick and fun to make. It is great baking fun when there is no such thing as a "diet" and just something to share with your friends.

This fab recipe comes the one and only Mary Berry! Her baking skills are amazing and I hope that if she saw these she would be amazed as much as I was when I made them ;) 

I changed the recipe slightly regarding of what I had in my kitchen but it really doesn't make a massive difference to the original recipe.

WHAT YOU NEED (MAKES 20 PIECES) :

• 200g of butter
• 100g bar of milk chocolate
• 200g of caster sugar
• 4 medium eggs
• 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla essence
• 75g of plain flour
• 25g of cocoa powder
• 100g of your choice of extras: milk,dark,white chocolate pieces, walnuts etc.
• A rectangular tin

METHOD:
 

1. Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4
2. Cut your butter into small pieces and bash your chocolate into small pieces as well. You can bash your chocolate by keeping it in it's wrapper on a worktop. Place these two ingredients into a saucepan and set the pan on the lowest possible heat. By cutting/bashing the ingredients into smaller pieces allows them to melt quicker saving you time for best part.... eating. Stir the mixture every minute or so (don't let it burn!) until you have a smooth consistency of delicious chocolate. Place the saucepan on a heatproof worktop to be used later on.
3. In a mixing bowl add the sugar and the eggs. You may use a wire whisk or an electric whisk to beat the ingredients. Do this for around 2 minutes until your mixture looks slightly frothy.
4. Add your melted chocolate mixture to the mixing bowl and whisk it for another minute.
5. Flour and cocoa powder is then sifted into the mixing bowl. You should stir this mixture with a wooden spoon.
6. Add your vanilla essence and your favourite toppings. You should distribute them evenly.
7. Pour the mixture into your prepared tin and make sure it is evenly spread out and that the mixture touches all sides of the tin to knock out pockets of air.
8. Place the tin into the oven for 20 minutes. You can test if it is done by the skewer test. If there is still mixture on the skewer leave it in the oven for another 1-2 minutes... But no more that that!
9. Feel free to lick the mixing bowl during this time... Actually you SHOULD lick the bowl, it is highly recommended.
10. When it seems like there done, take them out of the oven and place them on a wire rack to cool down before cutting them into squares.

And so there you have it! They are so easy to make and it's sooo worth it. I normally keep them on the plate ( as seen in the picture) and place a plastic cover on top. But if you want you can store them in an airtight container and you can eat them within 5 days.

 

 

 The brownies I made contained brazil nut pieces and white chocolate (Milky Way) pieces. I honestly did not like the taste of the brazil nuts but others did. It may be that I am not a nutty fan and just like my brownies with chocolate pieces in them giving it a gooey texture. 

 

I loved baking these and they went down a treat!

 

See you next time

 

 

 

 

 

~Y~