Desserts

Published on May 26th, 2012 | by Gareth

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Four delicious brownie recipes

Thursday saw a fervid afternoon kitchen session unfortunately there wasn’t anything saucy or salacious about the activity. I set out to meet and vanquish my challenge of five different chocolate brownie recipes in five days….by doing it in two. The reason for this change was down to the fact (which had initially escaped me) that Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea – the purpose of my baking bonanza…was Friday!

So for several intense hours on Thursday I made another four brownie bars or are they cakes? Anyway. Four different ones to add to the beetroot chilli brownie were achieved and sent off for sale this morning to the hungry hoards.

• Double Dark chocolate brownie.
• Milk chocolate and banana brownie.
• Black forest brownie with Kirsh – undoubtedly my favourite one.
• White chocolate and passion fruit brownie – although I think ‘whitey’ or ‘blondie’ is a more appropriate term.

The method for making each recipe is exactly the same as for the beetroot brownie so refer to this post for the prep and baking steps. Substitute the beetroot for dark chocolate chunks, banana or cherries, passion fruit respectively. The addition of the fruit also meant that I had to reduce the cooking temperature and increased the baking time as marked below.

Prepare to be melted

Mix the melted chocolate and butter with the egg and sugar

Double dark chocolate brownie

Oven temperature: 160 degrees C

Baking time: 40 -50 mins (check with a skewer after 30 mins then ever 10mins until cooked)

Ingredients:

• 3 eggs
• 170g dark chocolate (70% cocoa solids)
• 170g unsalted butter
• 170g caster sugar
• 80g plain flour
• 20g cocoa powder
• 20g dark chocolate broken into chunks

Now with even MORE chocolate

Milk Chocolate and banana brownie – this actually comes out a bit like chocolate banana bread.

Oven temperature: 160 degrees C

Baking time: 40 -50 mins (check with a skewer after 30 mins then ever 10mins until cooked)

Ingredients:

• 3 eggs
• 170g milk chocolate
• 170g unsalted butter
• 140g caster sugar
• 30g dark brown sugar
• 170g roughly mashed banana
• 100g plain flour

With chunky banana, just what the chimp ordered

Black forest brownie

Oven temperature: 160 degrees C

Baking time: 35 -50 mins (check with a skewer after 30 mins then ever 10mins until cooked)

Ingredients:

• 2 eggs
• 170g dark chocolate (70% cocoa)
• 170g unsalted butter
• 170g caster sugar
• 170g tinned dark cherries in syrup (strained and blended to a rough pulp)
• 1 tblsp Kirsch liqueur or vodka (add this to the cherry pulp)
• 100g plain flour

Decadent and moist

White chocolate, passion fruit and vanilla brownie

Oven temperature: 160 degrees C

Baking time: 40 -50 mins (check with a skewer after 30 mins then ever 10mins until cooked)

Ingredients:

• 3 eggs
• 170g white chocolate
• 170g unsalted butter
• 170g caster sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla essence
• Pulp of 2 passion fruit (don’t forget to strain to remove the seeds – which I didn’t)
• 100g plain flour

Dont for forget to remove the seeds from the pulp

Tags: Banana, Black cherries, Chocolate, Passion fruit

About the Author

Gareth Englishman in Sydney loves a whisky, pies and all things savoury. Digital Marketer by day, cook the rest of the time. Amateur writer, photographer & aspiring anthropologists.

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