Finally revealed - suzywong's worldfamous brownie recipe

[suzywong]

OK now that I have permission from Lou and in order to preserve the good MNers from MM's charlatan WW recipe I am ready to spil the beans

Only it will have to come in installments, I have to take the kids to sign up with the HV so watch this space.

well it doesn't matter to the non-purist but don't come back on here saying what was all the fuss about. Get yourself an extra bar of Bourneville for emergencies too

I think I've got pecans...

Thanks suzy!

When I have to have a no-nuts brownie (our school is no-nuts) I use chopped chocolate instead. Has always gone down well, but it's very rich.

Must go shopping this afternoon. Mmmmm, brownies....

Was the cocoa powder the biggest secret or is there more to come?

I think the really important bit is the cooking because you have to get it just right to get the proper degree of squidginess.

Soupy wins the prize. A brownie is not a cake and should be brittle and sugary on the outside and moulten and gooey and buttery and chocolatey and squidgy on the inside.

here is the secret:

Scrape the batter into the lined tin and bake it for 18 minutes.

Then have a look at it, the top should be pale and opaque with a couple of cracks starting to emerge like a dried up muddy puddle. The body of the mix will still be slightly wobbly with the edges looking like ordinary cake. If it isn?t like this then leave it in for another 3 minutes or until the first cracks in the puddle surface appear.

Then leave it in the tin to cool for 20 minutes.

Slice in to portions and then come back on here and tell me what you think!

And don't be scared if it is wobbly and oozing under the cracked surface, have courage and wait until it's cool.

Oooh sounds fantastic - am drooling at my desk looking at my sad collection of 'snack fruit'!

Am going to mull over the non-nut options (allergic to walnuts and pecans, and hence we have a bit of a no-nut rule for dd in our house).
JJ I like your chocolate chip idea ... can a brownie be too rich?!

Suzywong what are you trying to do to my diet!!

Going to try it anyway

Oh sounds delicious! But one question leave to cool in tin .....in the oven (switched off ) or out? I guess out otherwise it will dry up but please confirm?

I shall make some tomorrow for my daughters birthday.

brazil nuts work well but only use 75g

and yes GRmum, you are right I didn't make it clear that you should take it out of the oven to cool after the cracks appear. Well spotted

(I used to write recipes in my old life for my job and I don't like to be unclear)

Thanks suzy will let you know what my 3 think tomorrow evening!

Why would you cut it into portions rather than just attacking it with a fork/spoon?

i have made brwonies alot and echo SW that the key is taking htem out when you really htink they a re under done
but leaving them

MMMMmmmmmm. I'm going to copy all the instructions into a word document because these days you never know when a thread is about become contentious and get deleted.

Thank you so much SuzyWong (and Lou, hope you're feeling better). I'm not going to make them yet, I'll go on holiday, then take a couple of weeks to loose the holiday weight (I'm so defeatist) and then I'll make them. Roll on November.

here you go bran copy and paste this:

A 7 or 8 inch square tin lined with greaseproof paper/baking parchment and the oven set to 180/GM4 moderate oven.

A small saucepan in to which you put

150g butter
150g chocolate, at least half of it should be plain

On a low heat and let it melt together and leave it to cool slightly

Then beat together in a bowl
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
175g caster sugar
Until creamy looking

Then sift in
100g plain flour
1 big tablespoon of drinking chocolate
And a quarter of a teaspoon of salt

Throw in 100g walnuts
And the chocolate and butter and mix well.

Scrape it into the lined tin and bake it for 20 minutes.

Then have a look at it, the top should be pale and cracking slightly, like a dried up muddy puddle, the body of the mix will still be slightly wobbly. If it isn?t like this then leave it in for another 3 minutes.

Leave to cool in the tin and then slice into portions

DO NOT take it in to the bathroom and scoff the lot

lol at taking it to hide and scoffing the lot, are you sure we've never met Suzy? Thanks for the recipe in one place, although in away I prefer the other way (I'd already copied it just in case) which has narrative in it and will make me smile everytime I bake them.

I think now is the time to say something outrageously offensive so that the thread is removed and only a chosen few get to keep the recipe (I crave power and influence over people, first the recipe, next the world).

Whay can't you eat it in the bathroom, does this ruin the taste??

Can you use cocoa powder instead of drinking chocolate even with all dark choc?

Not of course that I'd eat such a fattening thing, oh no, my body is a temple. Of the Venus de Willendorf, admittedly.

You are all complete and utter racist brds if you want to bake brownies, you don't bake whities do you??

( bran do you think this is a good start to cause a row to get this thread deleted?? )

Or I could say that only SAHMs have time for brownies. SAHMs who breastfeed. And follow Gina.

I have never used cocoa with plain chocolate but have used green and blacks cocao with milk chocolate

you bunch of tarts

Hey Crunchie, if you're looking for a fight, you've got one you slapper

How sad am I, I've just put the recipe into the WW recipe builder to get the WW points per portion .

got to be in triple figures surely bran

It's 9 points per brownie if you divide the batch into 9. I get 24 points in a day, so I can eat 2.5 brownies, so long as I don't eat anything else at all that day, or the whole batch so long as I don't eat anything else for just over 2 days . I can forsee a big batch of zero point soup being made up at the same time as the brownies.

Do you think they would taste good made with Green&Black's Maya Gold?