Amazing Brownie Recipe?
Discussion
21TonyK said:
This is the one we use in the restaurant (scaled down a bit!)
5 eggs
500g caster sugar
375g butter
100g cocoa
Whisk eggs and sugar until quadrupled in volume
Mix cocoa with molten butter
Combine eggs and cocoa butter
Cook at 170 until just set
Ive just tried this and its brilliant. Definitely recommend it5 eggs
500g caster sugar
375g butter
100g cocoa
Whisk eggs and sugar until quadrupled in volume
Mix cocoa with molten butter
Combine eggs and cocoa butter
Cook at 170 until just set
Here is my recipe, which I'm told by everyone that eats them results in the best brownies they've ever tasted...
550g plain chocolate (I use Bournville)
225g butter, cut into pieces
3 eggs
225g caster sugar
75g self-raising flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
- Grease and line a 22cm x 29cm tin.
- Roughly chop 225g chocolate and put aside.
- Break remaining chocolate into small pieces and melt with the butter using a bowl over a pan of hot water.
- Leave to cool for 10 mins.
- Mix the eggs and sugar together in a large bowl then beat the chocolate mixture into it.
- Fold in the flour, vanilla essence, salt and chopped chocolate.
- Pour into baking tin.
- Bake in the oven at 190C or gas mark 5 for 45 mins. Check after 30 mins - the middle should be really soft and there should be a 'skin' on top.
- Remove from oven and leave for at least an hour in the tin to cool.
550g plain chocolate (I use Bournville)
225g butter, cut into pieces
3 eggs
225g caster sugar
75g self-raising flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
- Grease and line a 22cm x 29cm tin.
- Roughly chop 225g chocolate and put aside.
- Break remaining chocolate into small pieces and melt with the butter using a bowl over a pan of hot water.
- Leave to cool for 10 mins.
- Mix the eggs and sugar together in a large bowl then beat the chocolate mixture into it.
- Fold in the flour, vanilla essence, salt and chopped chocolate.
- Pour into baking tin.
- Bake in the oven at 190C or gas mark 5 for 45 mins. Check after 30 mins - the middle should be really soft and there should be a 'skin' on top.
- Remove from oven and leave for at least an hour in the tin to cool.
Maybe a bit cheap and trashy, but it's now my standard method.
1x box of premade brownie mix of choice (I usually just get the supermarket's own brand).
1x tin of black beans.
Open can of black beans, drain the liquid. With the beans still in the can fill the can with fresh water until the water level reaches the top and then still in the can, use a stick blender to blend the lot into a smooth paste/thick liquid. Add this to a bowl with the brownie mix and give it a good stir. Pour this into the little foldy up card baking tray thing that comes with the brownie mix. Bake as per instruction on the mix (think it's about 30 mins or until a toothpick comes out clean).
voilà.
1x box of premade brownie mix of choice (I usually just get the supermarket's own brand).
1x tin of black beans.
Open can of black beans, drain the liquid. With the beans still in the can fill the can with fresh water until the water level reaches the top and then still in the can, use a stick blender to blend the lot into a smooth paste/thick liquid. Add this to a bowl with the brownie mix and give it a good stir. Pour this into the little foldy up card baking tray thing that comes with the brownie mix. Bake as per instruction on the mix (think it's about 30 mins or until a toothpick comes out clean).
voilà.
Uriel said:
Maybe a bit cheap and trashy, but it's now my standard method.
1x box of premade brownie mix of choice (I usually just get the supermarket's own brand).
1x tin of black beans.
Open can of black beans, drain the liquid. With the beans still in the can fill the can with fresh water until the water level reaches the top and then still in the can, use a stick blender to blend the lot into a smooth paste/thick liquid. Add this to a bowl with the brownie mix and give it a good stir. Pour this into the little foldy up card baking tray thing that comes with the brownie mix. Bake as per instruction on the mix (think it's about 30 mins or until a toothpick comes out clean).
voilà.
now that is amazing and well worth a try1x box of premade brownie mix of choice (I usually just get the supermarket's own brand).
1x tin of black beans.
Open can of black beans, drain the liquid. With the beans still in the can fill the can with fresh water until the water level reaches the top and then still in the can, use a stick blender to blend the lot into a smooth paste/thick liquid. Add this to a bowl with the brownie mix and give it a good stir. Pour this into the little foldy up card baking tray thing that comes with the brownie mix. Bake as per instruction on the mix (think it's about 30 mins or until a toothpick comes out clean).
voilà.
As an additional treat (after some joyous experimentation 
), when you make the tray of brownies, take 'em out of the oven half cooked, and score the top gently to divide them into the portions. Then in each portion gently push a Lindt 'Lindor' ball ( http://www.lindt.com/swf/eng/products/lindor/lindo... ) into the middle of each one. Then chuck 'em back in. Mmm. Chocolatey.
), when you make the tray of brownies, take 'em out of the oven half cooked, and score the top gently to divide them into the portions. Then in each portion gently push a Lindt 'Lindor' ball ( http://www.lindt.com/swf/eng/products/lindor/lindo... ) into the middle of each one. Then chuck 'em back in. Mmm. Chocolatey.21TonyK said:
This is the one we use in the restaurant (scaled down a bit!)
5 eggs
500g caster sugar
375g butter
100g cocoa
Whisk eggs and sugar until quadrupled in volume
Mix cocoa with molten butter
Combine eggs and cocoa butter
Cook at 170 until just set
Tried this at the weekend, scaled down to 250g butter and everything else to scale. f5 eggs
500g caster sugar
375g butter
100g cocoa
Whisk eggs and sugar until quadrupled in volume
Mix cocoa with molten butter
Combine eggs and cocoa butter
Cook at 170 until just set
king delicious but took damned near an hour to cook at 170.Oven was pre-warmed, mixture went into a silicon cake tray, cake tray went straight on the shelf.
Wwhat did I do wrong?
bhstewie said:
hstewie said: Tried this at the weekend, scaled down to 250g butter and everything else to scale. fking delicious but took damned near an hour to cook at 170.
Oven was pre-warmed, mixture went into a silicon cake tray, cake tray went straight on the shelf.
Wwhat did I do wrong?
Glad you liked it, sometimes the simplest recipes work ;-) Nothing wrong, the time is due to the lack of flour etc. You're basically setting eggs and sugar with butter so it will take some time and the deeper the tray the longer.king delicious but took damned near an hour to cook at 170.Oven was pre-warmed, mixture went into a silicon cake tray, cake tray went straight on the shelf.
Wwhat did I do wrong?
21TonyK said:
Glad you liked it, sometimes the simplest recipes work ;-) Nothing wrong, the time is due to the lack of flour etc. You're basically setting eggs and sugar with butter so it will take some time and the deeper the tray the longer.
That's fine, they certainly didn't burn - just a little unnerving when after 30 minutes the centre is still slop and every other recipe out there seems to mention 25-30 minutes Uriel said:
Maybe a bit cheap and trashy, but it's now my standard method.
1x box of premade brownie mix of choice (I usually just get the supermarket's own brand).
1x tin of black beans.
Open can of black beans, drain the liquid. With the beans still in the can fill the can with fresh water until the water level reaches the top and then still in the can, use a stick blender to blend the lot into a smooth paste/thick liquid. Add this to a bowl with the brownie mix and give it a good stir. Pour this into the little foldy up card baking tray thing that comes with the brownie mix. Bake as per instruction on the mix (think it's about 30 mins or until a toothpick comes out clean).
voilà.
Went to Tesco but couldn't find black beans. Bought some mix anyway and it was lovely the kids polished it off. Will keep my eyes open for some.1x box of premade brownie mix of choice (I usually just get the supermarket's own brand).
1x tin of black beans.
Open can of black beans, drain the liquid. With the beans still in the can fill the can with fresh water until the water level reaches the top and then still in the can, use a stick blender to blend the lot into a smooth paste/thick liquid. Add this to a bowl with the brownie mix and give it a good stir. Pour this into the little foldy up card baking tray thing that comes with the brownie mix. Bake as per instruction on the mix (think it's about 30 mins or until a toothpick comes out clean).
voilà.
These are the ones I get from Asda or Morrisons.
I guess they replace the fat/other stuff the mix usually gets from the eggs/milk/butter whatever else you'd normally add. You can use a whole bunch of weird substitutions (can of pumpkin puree, can of coke/Dr Pepper/whathave you), but I prefer the black bean version. Set me off down a whole baking with unusual ingredients phase...cookie pies made with chickpeas and the like.
I guess they replace the fat/other stuff the mix usually gets from the eggs/milk/butter whatever else you'd normally add. You can use a whole bunch of weird substitutions (can of pumpkin puree, can of coke/Dr Pepper/whathave you), but I prefer the black bean version. Set me off down a whole baking with unusual ingredients phase...cookie pies made with chickpeas and the like.
21TonyK said:
This is the one we use in the restaurant (scaled down a bit!)
5 eggs
500g caster sugar
375g butter
100g cocoa
Whisk eggs and sugar until quadrupled in volume
Mix cocoa with molten butter
Combine eggs and cocoa butter
Cook at 170 until just set
Looks good, I'll try that. 5 eggs
500g caster sugar
375g butter
100g cocoa
Whisk eggs and sugar until quadrupled in volume
Mix cocoa with molten butter
Combine eggs and cocoa butter
Cook at 170 until just set
My current recipe is Hugh Fearnley-whittingstall's cocoa only recipe.
http://m.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/jun/04/b...
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