Recipe: Walnut Chocolate Brownies

Halo again! How's your day today? Productive enough to put into a tight sleep?

I would like to share with you a RECIPE! Do you brownies? I do! I do much. I love anything with chocolate.

On early February, my mother and stepfather organized a thanksgiving feast (kenduri kesyukuran). There is many reasons for the celebration... my parents are able to go for Umrah again, my brothers' wedding, my sister-in-law's pregnancy and my step siblings' wedding. I'll story about the feast in another article, so, stay tune!

Out of blue, I decided to bake brownies as the door gift. In my love, I've baked brownies and it never turned out to be normal. It will be either too soft or too hard. Once, the sugar settled at the bottom of the brownies. But I challenge myself to get the right recipe ASAP and make the door gift.

As now, my faith in Anna Olson is quite high. Therefore I googled the recipe of brownies from Anna Olson and tried. It didn't turn out well! It wasn't soft and it seems it didn't 'get-up'. After looking closely at the ingredient, I realized that I didn't put in baking powder! Silly me!

On the next day, I baked again and at this time, I got it right. So let's try out and let me know whether you like it or not, ok?

Ingredient

1 cup unsalted butter
1/2 cup cocoa powder (you can add more as you wish)
1 3/4 cups sugar
4 eggs ( I separate the white egg and yolk)
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 1/4 cups all purpose flour (I use 1 cup wheat flour and 1/4 cup self raising flour)
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
toasted walnuts (or other nuts)

Method

1. Preheat oven to 350 F (180 C) and grease an 8 x 11 inch baking pan.
2. Pour in sugar in a large bowl.
3. Melt butter (over stove or in microwave) and pour into the bowl of sugar. Stir it well.
4. Add in cocoa powder.
5. Lightly beat the white egg and yolk. Add in the white yolk and mix it well. Add in the yolk and mix it well.
6. Add in vanilla extract.
7. In separate bowl, add in flour, salt and baking powder. Mix it well.
8. Add the flour mixture into the mixture.
9. Stir in walnut.
10. Pour into the pan and let it sit for 15 minutes. Bake for 40-50 minutes, until firm when touched.

I didn't snap the picture of the brownies. Will post it once I bake for Juma, perhaps in 4 days time.

Good luck with the recipe!