Chocolate Brownies

[neetsmassi]

Does anybody have a quick easy recipe for chocolate brownies?

Not got it to hand but the Nigella Domestic Goddess one is unbelievably fantastic and easy...

Thanks Natt - I think I may have that book somewhere (if I haven't lent it out.

James Martins recipe as follows:

Ingredients

340g/12oz dark chocolate
255g/9oz unsalted butter
3 medium eggs
255g/9oz dark muscovado sugar
110g/4oz plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
pinch of salt
For variation:
55g/2oz raspberries, unsalted pistachios, hazelnuts or white chocolate pieces

Method

1.Preheat the oven to 170C/325F/Gas 3 and butter a 23cm/9in cake tin.
2. Sift together the flour, salt and baking powder.
3. In a bowl, over a pan of hot water, melt the chocolate and butter together.
4. Whisk the eggs and slowly add the sugar. Beat in the chocolate mixture and gently fold in the flour.
5. Pour into the cake tin and bake for 35 minutes until the surface is set but a skewer comes out with a little of the mixture clinging to it.
6. Remove and cool slightly before placing on a wire rack to cool.
7. Cut into pieces and keep in a tin or in the fridge.

For variations:
1.Follow the recipe until stage 4.
2. After you have folded in the flour, add your chosen ingredient.
3. Proceed as per the base recipe.

Thank you mothernature - will pop and buy the ingredients later.

Tescos used to sell a pre made slab of Brownies that you simply shoved in the oven. I can't remember the brand but it waswith all the chilled cookie doughs etc. It doesn't get easier than that!

Second the Nigella domestic Goddess one it is the business

Can confirm that the Nigella ones as made by SW are entirely delicious (can you bring some on Friday? )

I'm going to have to bake brownies now...

Why thank you HC, that's a good idea I will get my apron on

Nigella's is great, but You have to double the time she says to cook them for or you get runny splodge

Suzy's chocolate brownies are famous throughout the civilized world.

I know this because she told me

I feel obliged to say that they should appear unzet inthe middle of the pan with a pale-ish crust, that is cracked on the surface. You leave them in the pan to cool for 20 minutes and this firms the mixture up to just set. They will always be moist rather than a dry crumb.
I use one less egg than Nigella does, FWIW

Oh yes, bring some on Friday, sw! Yum tum!

SW - mine are always unset on the edges after her cooking time, and even after leaving them to cool in the pan the middle is still runny. I will try with one less egg though - thanks for the tip

Is this the recipe for Nigella's brownies that you're all referring to?

Nigella Lawson's Snow Flecked Brownies

Ingredients:

375g best quality dark chocolate
375g unsalted butter at room temperature at least
1 tablespoon real vanilla extract
6 eggs
350g sugar
1 teaspoon salt
225g plain flour
250g white chocolate buttons, preferably Montgomery Moore, or just chop same amount of good white chocolate
tin measuring approx 33cm x 23cm x 5.5cm

Preheat the oven to 180C/Gas 4/350F.

Line your brownie pan base and sides.

Melt the butter and dark chocolate together in a large heavy based pan.

In a bowl or wide mouthed large measuring jug, beat the eggs with the sugar and vanilla.

Measure the flour into another bowl and add the salt.

When the chocolate mixture has melted let it cool a bit before beating in the eggs and sugar, and then the flour.

Finally fold in the white chocolate buttons. Beat to combine smoothly and then scrape out of the saucepan into the lined pan. Bake for about 25 mins.

The brownies are ready, when the top is dried to a paler brown speckle, but the middle is dark and dense and gooey still; remember that they will continue to cook as they cool.