Brownies... it's always about the brownies.
I was up at 5am yesterday morning and out for a walk before it got hot (and hot it did get - apparently it was 29 degrees Celcius by 8:30am - yeesh!). I was only three streets away from my house, bopping along to my exercise music, when I remembered that it was a lovely colleague's birthday. The reason I remembered is quite significant as I was walking past a house with an aviary of budgerigars outside, and my co-worker has a bit of a thing for budgies. Weird. Just... weird.
So home I trotted, and I searched the pantry for ingredients to whip her up a nice little birthday cake. All I had available at 5:30am was the basics to make my triple choc fudgey brownies. I've made them early in the morning before work before, when I worked with a lovely lass in commercial real estate in Brisbane. I think I created a monster there though, if I didn't walk in with a tray of fresh-from-the-oven brownies at least once a week, Rosie would go spare! Word to the wise: don't start a brownie habit that you don't intend to keep feeding.
So home I trotted, and I searched the pantry for ingredients to whip her up a nice little birthday cake. All I had available at 5:30am was the basics to make my triple choc fudgey brownies. I've made them early in the morning before work before, when I worked with a lovely lass in commercial real estate in Brisbane. I think I created a monster there though, if I didn't walk in with a tray of fresh-from-the-oven brownies at least once a week, Rosie would go spare! Word to the wise: don't start a brownie habit that you don't intend to keep feeding.
Here is my brownie recipe again, as the link to the previous blog post doesn’t work on some laptops and mobile devices. Don’t ask me why, I’m a baking girl, not an IT girl.
- 120g good-quality dark chocolate (I only had milk cooking chocolate this morning. It'll do.)
- 125g unsalted butter
- 200g caster sugar
- 1tsp vanilla extract
- 2 eggs
- 85g plain flour
- 2tbs good-quality cocoa (I was out of cocoa, it's no biggie if you don't include it.)
- 100g milk chocolate chips
- 50g white chocolate chips
Method
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C, and grease and line the base of a 20cm square pan. Melt the chocolate in a bowl over a saucepan of simmering water, then set aside to cool.
Beat together the butter and sugar until pale. Add the vanilla and eggs, one at a time, stirring until just combined. Sift the flour and the cocoa, then fold into the egg mixture. Fold in the chocolate and chocolate chips, pour into cake pan and bake for 20-25 minutes.
Leave to cool in the pan, then cut into squares to serve. Dust with a little sifted icing sugar to finish!
Posted by Katy Potaty CUPCAKE LADY at Wednesday, February 01, 2012 5:14 AM 
Categories: Baking/Recipes
Categories: Baking/Recipes
there is NOTHING wrong with Brownies at 5am
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