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Double Chocolate Brownies

Chocolate! Chocolate!! Chocolate!!! I can never get over it...This C word is, was and always will be my weakness and the reason for my weight gain (oops..I shouldn't have told you that). You can ask me to diet if only the menu included a generous piece of Dairy Milk or a Chocolate Mud Cake....oooh! A big thank you to whoever thought of converting those lovely cocoa beans to soft, chewy, rich, smooth and delicious chocolate. So coming to my double chocolate brownies, I baked them two weeks back on a Friday night after coming from work. I was tired, exhausted and wanted to just crash on my couch and watch something nice on TV and welcome weekend. One of the channels were showing Johnny Depp and Juliett Binoche starrer 'CHOCOLAT" ...Oh my God I thought...I loved this movie and immediately went up to check my pantry to see whether I got all the ingredients to bake some brownies. For the chocolate lover that I am, I had everything ready to be baked up.


I quickly baked some brownies as I watched the movie. (For all the chocolate lovers, I recommend watching this movie once at least)...It took me just half an hour and the brownies were ready to be gobbled up. I observed one thing that day, that whenever I craved for chocolate, I became "Po" the Panda of the movie Kunfu Panda...:) All my tiredness and exhaustion could go off the roof and I was ever ready to cook up or bake off to satisfy my chocolate addiction!! 

I packed the remaining brownies and took it to work.... Obviously they loved it!! :)


Ingredients:

  • 80 gm butter (plus extra for greasing)
  • 40 gm unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 145 gm caster sugar
  • 2 eggs (room temperature)
  • 60 gm plain flour
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 100 gm chocolate chips
  • pinch of salt
Method:
  1. Preheat the oven to 180 degree Celsius and grease a shallow baking tin with butter.
  2.  Melt the butter in a saucepan or microwave. Stir in the cocoa and sugar to the butter and gently mix with a balloon whisk until the sugar has melted. 
  3. Now add the eggs to the stirred mixture. Whisk it gently to combine.
  4. Sift the flour, baking powder and a pinch of salt to the mixture. Stir gently with a spatula until flour is fully combined. Now add the chocolate chips and stir again.
  5. Pour the mixture into the greased baking tin and level it up with a spatula so the mixture is baked evenly. 
  6. Bake for 25 minutes or until a skewer when inserted in the centre comes out clean. 
  7. The chocolate chips would have melted and give that gooey texture inside. 
  8. Remove the tin and allow it to cool before cutting into slices. 
  9. Serve brownies with a scoop of vanilla ice-cream on the sides!! How easy is that!
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