Raise your hand if you are a big fan of brownies! I thought so . . . me too! I simply adore brownies of any kind. I make really good brownies.
When I worked at the manor the Mr liked for me to bake him a pan of brownies at least once every couple of weeks. I am sure that missed my brownies when I finished working there.
My brownie recipe produces dense, fudgy brownies, depending on how long you cook them for. You can cook them a bit longer if you want cakey brownies, but . . . come on . . . fudge . . .
I remember attending a cooking show when I lived down South. The Celebrity Chefs on it were the Tanner Brothers and Paul Rankin, with guest star Vanessa Phelps.
They did a Brownie Challenge and what they made were not Brownies in my opinion . . . .
They were wet and gloopy. You should be able to hold a good brownie in your hands to eat it. It would have been impossible to hold those.
I was most disappointed. Most disappointed . . . I guess I expected more from Celebrity Chefs than that.
What you see here today is my regular brownie recipe amped up with the addition of three kinds of chocolate chips.
Well, semi sweet chocolate chunks, white chocolate chips and peanut butter chips.
You could use butterscotch chips if you can find them and if you can't find either butterscotch or peanut butter chips, add milk chocolate chips in their place.
They get stirred into the batter prior to baking and then when the brownies are finished, you melt a few more and flick them melted . . .
one at a time over the top . . . decoratively like . . .
I wanted to bake something nice for my next door neighbour and her son. She has been ever so kind to us throughout this pandemic.
Whenever she is getting a grocery order, or her friend Julie is going to the shops for her, she always messages me on facebook to ask me can she get me anything.
That has been a real gift to me. Milk, bread . . . prune juice, butter, whatever I am in need of.
It is really thoughtful of her and I so appreciate it.
Because she has fibromyalgia and diabetes she is on the ultra vulnerable list and gets delivery slots for things much easier.
I would have thought with my husband's age, his cancer, radiotheraphy combined with my diabetes and high blood pressure we would have been on the list as well, but nope! We are not.
It doesn't make sense but it is what it is.
In any case Max and Cory have been really good to us and so today I baked these brownies for them to show them just how appreciate we truly are.
I hope that they like them! I confess, I did keep a few back for me, but only a few because one . . . I am a diabetic and shouldn't eat stuff like this and two, my husband hates chocolate bakes. (I know, not human)
Triple Chocolate Fudge Brownies
Yield: 16
Moist and delicious with full on chocolate flavour, these are everything a good brownie should be, with three different chocolate chips inside and a glaze of the same after baking!
Ingredients:
For the brownies:
- 240g (1 cup) butter
- 140g (1 cup) plain flour
- 4 ounces good quality bitter chocolate
- 4 large free range eggs
- 400g (2 cups) sugar
- 1 TBS vanilla essence (YES 1TBS)
- Pinch salt
- 45g white chocolate chips (1/4 cup)
- 45g semi sweet chocolate chunks (1/4 cup)
- 45g peanut butter chips (1/4 cup) (if you can't get those, use milk chocolate chips)
To glaze:
- 2 TBS chocolate chips, melted
- 2 TBS semi sweet chocolate , melted
- 2 TBS peanut butter chips, melted (if you can't get those, use milk chocolate chips)
Instructions:
- Pre-heat the oven to 180*C/350*F. Grease and flour the bottom of an 9-inch square baking tin. Tap out any extra flour.
- Melt the butter along with the chocolate over low heat in a large pot. Allow to cool, then stir in the sugar, eggs (one at a time) vanilla, flour and salt, mixing with a wooden spoon and being careful not to over mix, no more than 50 strokes! Fold in all of the chocolate chips
- Pour batter evenly into the prepared pan and bake until a toothpick inserted in the centre comes out a little wet if you want fudgy brownies. Bake until it comes out cleaner if you want cake type brownies, about 40 to 45 minutes for the fudgy ones.
- Flick the melted chocolates one at a time over the top of the brownies and then place them in the refrigerator to cool completely before cutting into squares to serve.
If you wanted to, and you had brownie mix in the house, you could just make that and stir the three chocolate chips into them and then melt some to drizzle on the top afterwards. Not quite as good as these I am sure, but whatever floats your boat!
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When I worked at the Manor my boss (the Mrs) always had to have a huge bag of mixed nuts ready for her to snack on at all times.
I could not buy already mixed nuts. I had to buy separate bags of nuts and then mix them specifically according to her preferences.
When I first started working there, she liked filberts, but a few months down the road she decided she didn't want filberts in her nut mix and so I spent a couple hours or so one day picking out all of the filberts in a huge bag of nuts.
I did not really mind. If you want to pay me by the hour to pick the doodoo out of the pepper I will pick the doodoo out of the pepper!
When I was a child, my parents used to buy a large tin of mixed roasted nuts every Christmas. This was their Christmas treat.
Often before any of us could even get a look in my mother would have taken out and eaten all of the cashew nuts. They were her favourite.
In a nut mix that was heavy on the peanuts, cashews were a prime commodity!
Sometimes I like to get the roasted nut mix at Costco because there are no peanuts in it, and there is just a nice mix of other nuts.
They are pretty salty however, which I don't like.
I have bought bags of just salted cashews . . . but they are not near as appealing as coming across a cashew or two in a mix of nuts is! Funny how that works!
Readymade mixed salted nuts are also full of things I don't necessarily want to eat as well . . .
like trans fats and preservatives, plus I fine they are heavy on the almonds and the rest of the mix is pretty scarce.
I like my nut mix generally not to be so salty and to have a nice mix of all the nuts.
That's why it's just nice to make my own mix up. I get to control all of that!
The mix largely depends on what I have in the house.
Normally I would add pecans and macadamia nuts, but I didn't have any of those today, so it's just almonds, walnuts, broken Brazil nuts and of course cashews!
They are all pretty balanced as well, perhaps a bit heavier on the almonds, but that's okay.
There is not a peanut to be had in the lot.
I love peanut butter, but I don't like peanuts in my nutmix. We are all individuals with our own unique tastes, I guess!
I like to roast them in butter. It gives them a really nice flavour and it is a natural fat. I use unsalted butter because I am adding salt to the mix.
suppose you could add other herbs and seasonings if you wanted to vary them a bit, but I like these just the way they are.
Butter Roasted Salted Nuts. They're a good thing!
Butter Roasted Salted Nuts
Yield: 12
Incredibly moreishly delicious and so much better for you than the already salted nuts you pick up in the shops, with no transfats, or chemicals and you control the salt.
Ingredients:
- 400g mixed nuts (I used almonds, cashews, brazil nuts, walnuts) (about 3 cups)
- 2 TBS melted unsalted butter
- 1/2 tsp kosher salt (or to taste)
Instructions:
- Preheat the oven to 180*C/350*F/ gas mark 4. Line a large baking tray with baking paper. Toss the nuts together in a bowl with the melted butter then spread them out onto the baking tray in a single layer. Sprinkle with the salt to taste.
- Roast in the preheated oven for about 15 - 20 minutes, stirring every 5 minutes. Keep a close eye on them so that they don't burn. Remove from the oven and allow to cool completely. Taste and adjust the salt as needed.
- Store in an airtight container.
When it comes to snacking nuts are not a bad thing. They might be filled with fat, with some being fattier than others, but they have quite a number of other impressive health benefits which far outweigh that fact.
They are highly nutritious and contain a lot of antioxidants, vitamins and nutrients as well as fiber. Much better for you to eat a small handful of nuts than a bag of potato chips at any rate!
I really really like my nuts dipped in chocolate, but those are saved for extra special occasions and are considered an indulgence.
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