Nigel Slater's Best Brownies. Heaven in a tin. The fudgy moist centre is the aim.
300g caster sugar
250g butter
250g chocolate (70% cocoa solids)
3 large eggs plus 1 extra yolk
50g gluten free flour (60g plain wheat flour)
60g cocoa powder
½ tsp baking powder
Preheat oven to 180ºC and line a baking tin with greaseproof paper.
Mix the sugar and butter into a fluffy pale cloud. Set aside 50g of the chocolate (chop it up into gravel-sized pieces) and melt the rest - 20 seconds at time in the microwave, stirring after each blast. Meanwhile sift together the flour, cocoa, and baking powder with a pinch of salt.
Mix the beaten eggs into the sugar and butter fluff, a quarter at a time. Beat fast in between additions. Add the melted chocolate and the broken up chocolate (i used white chocolate in this version) then fold in the flour/cocoa and baking powder mixture as gently as possible.
Put the mixture into the cake tin and put it into the oven for 25 minutes. The surface should have crusted over, but with a wobble underneath. Check with a skewer - if too much mixture clings then put it back for 3 more minutes, but no longer.
This is a head massager, apparently, but don't be limited by it's title.
11 comments:
Oh, hell! I'd love one of those, just for its intended purpose!
While munching on your brownies...
Nope, someone's going to have to draw me a picture...
I've had imagination/kink failure (disastrous) or not enough coffee, either way I'm in need of stimulation...
The brownies look terribly munchable
I'm stumped, too.
M in Devon
I guess I don’t have the words to express how yummy this looks. I love brownies but somehow your recipe is even better than the one I use. I can almost taste the fudgy center. Thanks for sharing.
Aren't those head massagers called orgasmatrons? They feel pretty damn good on the head, so I'm intrigued...
So Gf flour seems to work v well in brownies. Good to know.
Relieved at asthma news.
M in Devon
Seriously?? You can't imagine? Well .. The 'fingers' can be bent to any position you like so can cup mons and inner thighs beautifully.
Or straighten arms to make a birchy instrument.
Thanks M. An unknown allergen but meds were effective.
Chicken stew: thighs skinned, right?
M in Devon (sorry to be so dumb)
M -- no, not usually. I prefer to brown chicken (with skin) at first. It will make a tastier gravy and a better looking dish. My boys eat the skin with relish.
Ta! We'll see if the troops here approach it with the same relish.
Highly-seasoned roast chicken skin goes down a treat (and is sometimes preferred to the actual chicken, arghh!), so there's hope.
Thanks for putting up with the dumb questions. It can't be easy be a Domestic Goddess. (Yet another book I don't have, although I did hang out with JD.)
M in Devon
ohhh, I wasn't aware the fingers were bendy, that puts a whole different, ermm, shape on it ;)
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