Awesome Brownies

Tried this new recipe this morning and it turned out great. Sorry no photos camera batteries are dead :(


1 1/4 cups of cocoa powder
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup of white sugar
1/2 cup of reg AP flour
1/2 teaspoon of salt
8 oz. butter melted (those packets of butter are 8 oz or 220 grams approx)
2 teaspoons of vanilla
4 large eggs (room temp)

beat the four eggs until nice and yellow and well combined (they will lighten in color as they combine.)

Gather all the dry ingredients and sift together. Slowly add the dry stuff to the eggs while beating or stirring vigorously (stand mixer makes it easier)

Once you have a good mix add the vanilla and the butter, add the butter very slowly as it tends to pool on top if added to quickly.

mix until its """Mixed""" lol

Grease a 9 inch pan with shortening or spray stuff.

Cut a sheet of parchment the width of the base of the pan and leave enough so that it hangs over the two opposite sides. You should have paper along the bottom and up the two sides and about 2 or 3 inches of extra. The spray or shortening will hold it in place.

Fill the pan and put it in a 325 deg PREHEATED oven for approx an hour.

Test with a toothpick, to check if its done.

Remove from oven and grab the two pieces of paper that are hanging out and remove the brownies to a cutting board. Cut into 9 pieces while hot.

Then move paper and all to a cooling rack.

ENJOY!

E. G.

Update:

Oh, too dark you put too much cocoa in... flock me never do anything right!

Ten minutes later.... oh, good!

Never can please the Thai if you didn't to it their way... oh well.

E. G.

Brownies are a favorite of mine. Where's the picture?

My wife made some awesome brownies the other day and I will pass on your recipe to her for trials.

Thanks for posting yours mate and if your brownies are the same quality as your famous pate I am sure they were delicious. :)

That's just plain mean dude. I think I've got a can of tuna in the cupboard.

^lol If I had the same 'tasters' as I did with the pate' I'm sure the outcome would be good.. lol

Let us know how she does with the brownies

BTW the parchment paper thing is good for anything that needs to be cut hot, all types of bars and squares

E. G.

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Originally Posted by Humbert

That's just plain mean dude. I think I've got a can of tuna in the cupboard.

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Aha, a can of tuna deserves a totally separate thread. Soooooo many things to do with tuna... whew LOL

E. G.

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Originally Posted by El Gibbon

Never can please the Thai if you didn't to it their way... oh well.

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Better to do it properly than their way.

Can't wait till they try my bib wearing slobbering sweet cinnamon rolls lolol

E. G.

Yum! Sounds great. I made brownies today in place of a birthday cake. Covered the cooked brownie with melted chocolate and a few chopped up strawberries, whipped cream on the side for those whoe wanted it. Super good and way cheaper than buying a decorated plastic cake at one of the department stores.

Yum. Thanks, EG.
As Mom's rule, I always add the liquids (in this case, the eggs) to the "well" in the dry (flour, etc) and mix up. Easier and no globs. Never used parchment for brownies or cookies -- just straight onto a wire rack for cooling.
I think I have some dark choc so might make some.

As I'm a lazy bastard, I don't like cleaning up cooked on gook from my pans. I use parchment just about anywhere, its cheap, doesn't burn or stick to anything and saves a load of clean up lolol.

For those that have not used it:
Parchment is very similar in look and feel to wax paper but no wax. Hence you don't get that waxy taste when warm or hot stuff is placed on it. Wax paper also burns very easily.

Parchment paper is silicon impregnated, leaves no residue and will withstand all your oven temperatures.

E. G.

^ Oh! Just reread your recipe. Yep, parch/wax paper or muffin cups work for me, too. I hate cleaning up.

Brownies in a cup cake form... can't get my head around that one lolol

Wax paper in the oven turns into alllllllll sorts of issues.. #1 is the brownies taste like melted and cooled wax... fire hazard not good.

E. G.