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Curly Cooks: Chocolate Brownies

Since we're all stuck inside for lockdown, many people are currently baking to pass the time, including me! So, Curly Cooks is a series on the various items that I'm making while on lockdown, most of which will carry personal stories. First up: Brownies!

Curly Cooks: Chocolate Brownies

The Final Product

If you know me, you know that I'm very proud of my brownie recipe, and if you've had them, you know it's for good reason: they're amazing. I've made them for my friends plenty of times, for birthdays or parties or just because I wanted to bake something. So, since I've not seen anyone in so long, the only way to share my brownies is to share the recipe. It's super easy and very sweet, which means it's always enjoyable. 


First you should preheat the oven to 180 C Fan. Next, you can get together your ingredients:
Clockwise starting from the top, you have sugar, cocoa powder, butter, flour, chocolate (milk and dark), eggs and baking powder.

To start off, put the 250g of margarine or unsalted butter and 200g of chocolate into a microwave safe bowl together. For the chocolate, you can use all dark cooking chocolate, or you can use half milk chocolate for a creamier final flavour. Once they're in the bowl, microwave the mixture in 30 second increments until it has melted together, but before it has the chance to burn - you may have to take it out when the butter is melted and the chocolate is softened, and mix it together to help the chocolate to melt into the butter without burning. This is how it should look:

Next, get another bowl and pour in all of the dry ingredients: 360g of caster sugar, 60g of cocoa powder, 85g of plain flour, and 1 teaspoon of baking powder. mix them all together, then add the four eggs and mix the ingredients into a cohesive batter:

The mixture will be fairly thick, don't worry as next you're going to add the butter and chocolate mixture. Pour it into the dry ingredients and mix it thoroughly until it's homogeneous. Prepare a tray with greaseproof paper and then pour in the mixture, spreading it flat with a spoon or spatula: 

Once you're satisfied with the eveness of the mix, put it in your preheated oven for 25 minutes, or until it's no longer uncooked batter in the middle. It should be fairly gooey, so be careful not to overcook it - if the edges are starting to burn, it's more than ready to be taken out. 

Let the cooked brownies cool in the tray before turning them out onto a chopping board to cut into pieces of your desired size. I like them big but you might want to cut them smaller if you're sharing with more people or if you want to feel like a giant.
Maybe slightly too big lol

Finally, you can take them off the tray and lay them out to present them nicely for eating.

Prep time: 10 mins            Cook time: 25 mins            Serves: 1-16

Ingredients:
360g caster sugar
250g margarine/unsalted butter
200g chocolate of choice
85g plain flour
60g cocoa powder
4 eggs
1tsp baking powder

Steps:
1. Preheat oven to 180C.
2. Melt butter and chocolate together.
3. Mix all dry ingredients in a separate bowl.
4. Add and mix in the eggs to the dry ingredients.
5. Pour melted mixture into other bowl.
6. Mix until cohesive.
7. Prepare a 20x25cm (approx.) tray with greaseproof paper.
8. Pour into the tray and cook in the preheated oven for 25 minutes.
9. Wait to cool and enjoy.


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