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.

Can you leave the nuts out???

You can subtitute them with chocolate chunks according to JJ.

making these at the moment...7 mins to go before i leap at the oven and start assessing the cracks!

Mmmmm...yummy yummy! Some went splodge like SoupDragon's but most ok. Fan oven for 17 mins which made the top go like it was meant to but perhaps needed to stay in a wee bit longer to prevent the splodge!

I went for fan oven at a slightly lower temperature for the full 18 mins. It's just so complicated!!

Made brownies last night. THey looked lush but I couldn't tell you how they tasted as I'm on a diet. How's that for willpower??

I have to say Suzy, that my husband is not at all sure about your brownies and thinks I need a lot more practice

just to share this one with the world again. it would be a crime to let this recipe be forgotten.
I've just made them suzy - can't eat them until tonight, but have nibbled around the edge of one and they are v good!

glad to hear it PP

I had a bit of a baking disaster today, chocolate cake went sad in the middle so I turned it in to chocolate refrigerator cake .... now there's a fattener.

I'm of the school that thinks that unless you have actually burnt it to a crisp, any chocolate baking is always edible, no matter whether it looks like you meant it to or not...

DARNIT, PPH, do you have to bump this thread? and remind me AGAIN of these slurpishously gorgeous creations I was trying to WIPE from my brain? Grumble grumble fatso grumble...

Seriously, was trying to remember this recipe, must make them. So if I use a mixture of chocs can I use cocoa? If I make them with Divine fair-traded choc I reckon they're a political imperative, actually.

precisely
wasting chocolate=mortal sin

I've just had my third helping of this refrigerator cake, it's the cake crumbs mixed with crushed nice biscuites, raspberries, walnuts and raisins bound together with melted butter and golden syrup and brandy and topped with plain chocolate.

Please give me the willpower not to go back to the fridge

Suzy, do you have a cookie recipe that might work better than the other one that's been posted????

Why yes I do, as a matter of fact
(haven't read the other thread, don't want to tread on anyone's toes, it's OK mine doesn't have formula or breastmilk in it)

It's for chocolate chip peanut butter cookies - sorry don't have one without peanut butter in;

makes about 24
125g butter at room temp
1 cup smooth peanut butter
1 cup caster sugar
1 egg beaten
1 and 3/4 cups plain flour
half teaspoon vanilla essence
half teaspoon baking powder
100g chopped chocolate ( I made it with plain so can't vouch for milk but it should work)

Oven at 180 degrees or slightly less if you have a fan oven - you know your ovens - don't put it on yet though

2 large baking trays lined with parchment

2 big pieces of clingfilm

1. beat butter and sugar and peanut butter til pale and creamy in a bowl
2. add the egg and vanilla and mix well
3. sieve in flour and baking powder, and chocolate and stir well to combine
4. using the tips of your fingers work the mixture in to a cohesive dough. Divide it in two and put one piece on each piece of clingfilm
5. wrap up in clingfilm and roll in to sausage shapes about 5cm in diameter, seal the ends and either chill it for 1 hour or stick it in the freezer for 20 minutes
6. when really cold and firm, slice off 75ml, quarter inch slices, place on baking tray and flatten slightly.
7. bake for 10 minutes and then check them every minute until they appear to be just firm and golden rather than brown at the edges
8. allow to cool on tray for 5 minutes then transfer to cooling rack and eat as soon as you can, having previously bribed children to tidy room/do homework/stop fighting

NB you don't need to use all the dough at once it will keep in the freezer for about a month, just take it out 15 minutes before you want to bake it

Thank you, can I use anything other than peanut butter so the kids can have them????

OH no! do they have allergies?

Ermmmmmmm.......how about this

( disclaimer am cheating here, this is not my recipe it is from a magazine so I haven't actually tried it out)

200g butter at room temp
3/4 cup caster sugar
1 egg yolk
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/2 cups plain flour
1 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder

same method as for the other ones excpet you don't bother with the rolling in to clingfilm just drop tablespoonfuls on to the tray and allow room for spreading and only bake for 12-14 minutes.

Personally I would be tempted to throw in another quarter cup of flour and 100g of chocolate chips

HTH

Your a star. Thank you. Don't have allregies as far as I know but they're only 1 and 3 and been told by gp not to try with nuts until at least 5 years of age.

no worries

you're far more proper than I am, I just hand them out to my 14mo and 3.5 ds's all the time (no ill affects so far, thank goodness) maybe I should be a bit more careful

And does it have to be that size of tin? I never know, with tins. We seem to accumulate them, all of a curiously non-standard size.

I suppose being only 5ft tall with size 3 feet but big bosoms I too am a curiously non standard size...

hi suzy

will you make some for me when i come to perth?

havent forgotten still need to reply to your e mail but things are hectic around here just now. can hardly see the screen of compute cos of piles of washing, nappies, etc

altho you notice i still have time to read mn!

aHA! SM told me that you'd posted the brownie recipe! Many thanks, m'dear

to NP; yes, often

to MI; yes and I had a dream about you the other night and you were a glamorous bond girl but a bit snooty, I have to say

Hey MM, so you finally met the Monkey eh?

Yes, and lou! They are really wonderful