Chocolate Brownie is a rich, lip-smacking dessert that by its sheer appearance can set many people drooling. With a deep brown color, delectable flavor, mushy texture and packed with crunchy pecans or walnuts, the chocolate brownie is bound to tempt even the most resolute person on a diet to break his resolve and savor it. To make it an even more sumptuous treat, you can serve a large piece of chocolate brownie drizzled with hot chocolate sauce, dollop of whipped cream and a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
If you want to make this alluring dessert at home, then you can easily follow this recipe.
Ingredients:
All purpose flour - 100 gms
Castor sugar - 300 gms
Salted / unsalted butter - 200 gms
Cocoa powder - 50 gms
Bittersweet chocolate (chopped) - 150 gms
Eggs - 4 nos.
Vanilla essence - 1 tsp
Walnuts (chopped to small pieces) - 125 gms
A dollop of whipped cream
A scoop of vanilla ice cream
For the chocolate sauce:
Bittersweet chocolate (chopped) - 2 cups
Thick cream - 1 cup
Sugar - 1/4 cup
Method:
1.) Preheat oven at 180C.
2.) Set up a double boiler and melt the chocolate. Pull off the stove and to this melted chocolate add butter and mix well.
3.) Now add the sugar and mix well.
4.) To this chocolate mixture add eggs one by one stirring constantly. Add vanilla essence. Mix well.
5.) Sieve the flour and cocoa powder. Fold this into the mixture.
6.) Dust the walnuts with some flour and fold these into the mix.
7.) Now take a 8 inch square baking dish. Grease the dish well with butter and lightly smear it with flour. Pour the entire mixture into the baking dish.
8.) Bake for 40 minutes at 180C or until done. To check if done insert a knife blade into the brownie, if the blade comes off clean, then the brownie is done.
9.) Cut into medium-sized pieces.
For the chocolate sauce:
1.) In a saucepan add the cream and bring to a boil.
2.) Now add the chocolate and sugar. Keep stirring continuously till both melt making sure that chocolate does not stick to the pan. Pull off the stove.
Take a piece of brownie in a dessert plate. Drizzle it with hot chocolate sauce. Top it with whipped cream. In addition, place a scoop of vanilla ice cream beside the brownie before serving.
Image: Whatscookingamerica
Via: BBC, Joyofbaking
