WALNUT BROWNIES

Brownies though made with chocolate, you can really vary brownies as you wish: add walnuts, or peanuts, or hazelnuts, or add some more chocolate chips white or dark chocolate chips. 

I love Brownies more than Cakes - they're so easy and tasty.  Brownies are much quicker to make than cakes, and they look so beautiful piled up in a rough-and-tumble pyramid.  My kids too love the homemade Brownies, which is lucky for me as I’m pretty horrible at decorating cakes and making cake means working harder.  Every Christmas and Easter as a ritual, Brownies are a must at home for kids.

This really is the Best Brownie Recipe ever! These homemade brownies are the perfect chewy fudge squares of chocolate. You'll never buy a boxed brownie mix again!

Ingredients:

• 1 1/4 cup flour
• 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 2 galaxy bars
• 3/4 cup chocolate chopped or choco chips
• ¾ cup walnuts chopped
• ¾ cup melted butter
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• ½ tsp baking powder
• ¼ tsp salt

Tips:

Preheating:

For all baking; preheating oven is very essential.  When you don't preheat, you cook your food at a lower temperature as your oven spends the initiation 5-15 minutes only to heat, depending on the target temperature and your oven's strength.  For most cakes & cookie recipes, you're going to be baking them at 350 degrees F or thereabouts. It takes most ovens about 20 minutes to preheat to this temperature or it depends on your oven model.  Preheating an oven is especially important with baking when you use yeast, baking soda and baking powder as leavenings – which react to heat.  The food starts cooking immediately, faster and properly, if you got the right temperature.

So to start with, preheat your Oven, in the mean time you are get your batter ready for baking.

Coating the pan:

Grease the baking pan with butter and dust some flour over it.  Coating a greased pan with a thin dusting of flour creates a barrier between the grease and the batter, which prevents the grease from melting and disappearing into the batter as the brownies bakes and this also avoid sitting to the pan.

 

Procedure:

You can’t go wrong in making Brownies if you have the best quality fresh flour and coco powder.  In a bowl combine the flour, coco powder, baking powder and salt.  Sieve it for 2 times. 

In another bowl add sugar, eggs and vanilla extract and whisk it for 1 minute.  

We need melted butter at room temperature.  After sieving the dry ingredients, make a well and pour in the melted butter and then pour in the wet mixture to the dry mixture and use a spatula to stir in flour until just combined and no lumps. Don’t use a whisker to blend in the ingredients. 

Now stir in the walnuts and chopped chocolates.  Reserve some walnuts for garnish.

Pour the batter into the prepared pan and smooth out.  Garnish with the reserved walnuts.

Bake in the preheated oven for 28 - 30 minutes until a toothpick inserted from the side to pan comes out almost clean.

When it's ready, the top should be dried to a brown speckle, but the middle still dark and dense and gooey.  The difference between gooey brownies and dry brownies is only a few minutes; remember that they will continue to cook as they cool.  Let it cool in pan 30 minutes before slicing.  Cut into small bite sized squares and store it in a tightly covered container. They are very rich, dense and filling.  The gooey brownie will set once refrigerated so it’s up to you, if you want it gooey or dry.   

My kids loves gooey brownies and there is now way to set it in fridge as it gets over in few hours.

If you try this recipe, let me know what you think! Leave a comment, and don’t forget to post your pictures on Instagram so I can see your creations. Thank you!

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