Monday 20 June 2011

Sticky Chocolate Covered Chocolate Brownies

First up sorry for the lack of posts lately, but I haven't been cooking a lot. I've been eating a lot of couscous with different things in it for lunch, as it's healthy and easy! I must get back to cooking though, I miss it.
Anyway, never mind that. These brownies are very sticky, and gooey, and rich. In fact I can just about get through one, but that's probably a good thing, because they are VERY bold!
So here we go.

Ingredients-
Brownies(about 9)-
200g plain chocolate
75g milk chocolate
115g butter
100g light brown sugar
50g white sugar
2 eggs
15ml vanilla extract
70g flour
100g chopped toasted pecans (also leave some whole ones for decoration)
150g white chocolate chopped into little pieces

Sticky Chocolate Gooey Goodness-
100g plain chocolate
70g milk chocolate
50g butter
30ml golden syrup
10ml vanilla extract

Method-Topping:

1. Chop everything up nice and small.

2. Melt gently in a pot, making sure to stir a lot.

3. Allow to chill for at least an hour, and that's it easy!

Brownies:

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C.

2. Put the plain and milk chocolate, and butter into a large pan and melt gently stirring a lot.

3. When that's melted add the sugar and stir until dissolved.

4. Beat in the eggs quickly so they don't scramble, also add the vanilla.

5. Stir in the flour a little, just until it's just mixed in, then add the pecans and white chocolate.

6. Pour the mix into a baking tray, I like the shape I used as it makes nice deep brownies. Have the tray lined with tinfoil that has been well greased with butter.



7. Bake for 30 minutes or so, until a knife stuck into the centre comes out clean'ish.

8. Leave to cool in the tray on a rack for about half an hour, then remove (using the clever tinfoil wrapped around it) and leave to cool for a couple of hours, or until cool!



9. Spread the topping over the Brownie cake thing, then decorate with pecans and cut into Brownies!



A couple of things on this one. When I made it I baked it for half an hour and it came out a little soft, so 35 minutes, or even at a slightly higher temperature for 30 minutes, I haven't tried either, but I will post if I do!
Also play with the ratio of milk to plain chocolate, the way I've put it still makes it quite rich, if you prefer it less rich, use more milk chocolate. Also.......enjoy :-) x.