recipe of the week: brownies
brownies 1/2C butter, melted
1/4C cocoa
2 eggs
1C granulated sugar
3/4C flour
1/2C chopped walnuts (i used chocolate chips)
1/8 tsp salt
preheat oven to 350 degrees.
grease 8x8 inch pan, or any pan you desire...i used a mini loaf tin.
add cocoa to melted butter, stir until smooth and set aside.
beat eggs til frothy in medium bowl.
mix sugar, flour, nuts/chips and salt in separate bowl, add to the frothy eggs but do not stir. pour cocoa mixture over top and stir all together.
scrape batter into greased 8 x 8 inch pan and bake for about 30 minutes or until the edges begin to show signs of pulling away from the sides of the pan.
if you want to add some more chocolaty goodness, frost the brownies when they're cool!
icing
1 1/3C icing (confectioners) sugar
1/3C cocoa
3T butter
5tsp hot coffee or water
these are so easy and devine!
4 comments:
That looks like a good, simple recipe. Where did you get it from? I'll try that out.
my aunt gave it to me. it really is as easy as it looks.
Ahem. Sarah and I, no strangers to making brownies, made these last night (in a proper 8x8 pan). They didn't rise, and came out gritty and dense. Tasty still, but strange. And our icing was so runny we had to add a lot more icing sugar than the recipe said. (Tip: We added the smallest splash of peppermint extract to it.) It was still pretty wet.
right, grittiness is obviously a problem with your ingredients, might i suggest sifting your flour, sugar, cocoa and salt next time. i guess i should have put that in the instruction but i just assume that everyone knows to sift. or maybe you didn't mix the batter enough.
of course the brownies didn't rise, there's no baking powder or other rising agent. well, you have eggs but they don't do too much puffing up. these aren't light, fluffy cake brownies, they're chewy and dense.
the runny icing sugar i can't explain, as you can see from the picture my icing recipe is anything but runny, it's thick and lucious.
i've made these 3 times and i've had nothing but success so don't blame the recipe.
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