Chocolate Brownies

I once again left my mom's magic recipe notebook when I was procuring the ingredients at one of the local shopping malls. I was not even able to download a random brownie recipe online. When I arrived at the grocery section, I just dumped the ingredients which I think were necessary. Fortunately, when I got home and I immediately read entries on How to Bake Brownies, I was so euphoric to find out that I was able to buy everything I needed. I based my judgment on the chocolate cake recipe which I permanently etched on my hippocampus. Brownie is just a chocolate cake minus the moisture. It's a chocolate cake minus the milk and the baking soda.

Ingredients:

1 cup cocoa powder
1 1/2 cup all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup butter
1 1/2 cup sugar (or 2 cups; it depends on you)
4 eggs

optional:
peanuts (or sugar-coated chocolates, chocolate bits, etc.)
1 teaspoon vanilla

Baking brownies is like dumping mud in a pan. Just mix and dump, mix, dump, mix, dump. When you bake brownies think of mud and the pieces of stones mixed with it. The coarser the better. I realized that it's better to use a hand mixer for this. I'm fond of using the electronic mixer from Imarflex. Although it saves a lot of energy, when baking brownies, so as to create a rougher texture, I suggest that you use the hand mixer.

Here's a very simple overview on how to bake chocolate brownies:
(1) Cream butter. Add sugar. Mix.
(2) Add eggs one by one. Add sugar.
(3) On another bowl, sift flour, cocoa and baking powder. Mix.
(4) Add flour mixture.
(5) Mix thoroughly.

Dump the mud in a pan. Set the oven at 150-200 C. Bake and you're done!!!











I'm so excited for Christmas!!! Weee. I plan to bake so many cakes and pastries! Among my priorities are: Fruit Cake, Apple Pie and Chocolate Moist Cake. I also plan to bake Fondant Cake; but it's too sweet, maybe I should leave it for later. I really do not like sweet sweet cakes. :( I prefer the bitter-sweet ones!