Hello all!

I was watching a TVB series "Revolving doors of Vengeance" and then, I suddenly remembered that I had a bar of Lindt left, and some cooking chocolates. So, paused the show and dig out some recipes in Nigella's book, looking for some chocolatey stuffs. Oh well, settled on Brownies. cause now, the Lindt bar is gone and so does antoher 200g of cooking chocolate

Brownies are, of all chocolate cakes, the easiest to make. All you really need is, a deep pan (those that u use to cook instant noodles) No hassle on fixing the mixer, or food processor.. Oh, but u do need a weighing scale of course. and some flour, chocolate eggs, sugar..

I actually halved the recipe as I have insufficient butter. So, if u're serving alot of people, just double it =)

Melt 190g soft unsalted butter and 190g best quality dark chocolate in a large pan. Then in a bowl or measuring jug, beat 3 eggs and 150g caster sugar (I also reduced the sugar amount) and 1 tsp vanilla extract. Then get ready 110g plain flour... OH DAMIT !!! NOW THAT I REMEMBER.. I ACTUALLY FORGOT TO REDUCE THE FLOUR AMOUNT!!!! i think i actually added 200g ... but the cake was still good.. hrmmm

Anyway, when the chocolate and butter has melted, let it cool abit before beating in eggs and sugar , then 150gm of nuts, then seive in flour and 1 tsp salt. Beat to combine smoothly then scrape out of the saucepan into the lined pan.

Bake at 180C for about 20 minutes. But really, just check on it. The top should be dried to a paler brown speckle, but the middle still dark and dense and gooey. But since they still continue to cook as they cool, u can just leave them in the oven for another 10 minutes and let it cool.



Now, really... I don't know if i reduced the flour or not ... It was a bit too densed tho, I must have not.. gosh..How careless of me


My dog was looking at the cakes greedily while I brought it out to snap a pic.. But darling, u can't eat chocolate!!!!

and then, made some Chocolate Ganache. very easy. just melt chocolate and stir in cream. thats about it.. I got sick of finding double cream or anything.. Just make it..



You know what would have been the extra point!?!?
VANILLA ICE CREAM !!! YUMMM

*I don't care, I'm buying a tub of ice cream tomorrow*

Saturday, May 20, 2006 01:37 am by Swee San

	swee May 21, 2006   09:06 PM PDT   thanks lynn, yeah, will try n make it.. thanks boo.. yeah, i used cashewnuts instead of walnuts.. and almond flakes on top.. mmm... hi jan, i use adobe photoshop cs2 :)

	jan May 21, 2006   11:54 AM PDT   hi, what photo editing software u are using?

	boo_licious May 21, 2006   03:59 AM PDT   It looks nice and dense as how brownies shld look. Love the amt of nuts in it.

	Lynn May 20, 2006   09:12 AM PDT   your food looks damn good! *salivates on keyboard* make me a banana one! :D