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Fudgy Cocoa Brownies
Sat 20-Aug-11
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Shereen
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I got this recipe from a lovely foodie forumite in another online place.

Fudgy Cocoa Brownies: http://appleandspice.blogspot.com/2011/05/gooey-ch.....wnies.html

They are remarkably easy to make, you end up with very little washing up, and the work office mates told me I could make them again any time, as long as I brought them in to work. It's hard to believe there's not loads of melted chocolate in them. I don't have a fancy muffin pan like the one in the Apple and Spice blog post, but an ordinary baking tin works just fine.

 

(She blogs infrequently here: http://www.slowrise.co.uk/ She'd blog more if she wasn't so busy doing actual cooking and baking for real 🙂

Sat 20-Aug-11
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Shereen, they look fab - I have printed off the recipe. Guess what I may make tomorrow ...... ?

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Sun 21-Aug-11
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Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is not to eat more than one in a sitting.

 

(This forum post will self-destruct in 10 seconds, 9, 8, 7...)

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Sun 21-Aug-11
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big_laugh   big_laugh   big_laugh   ponder

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Sun 21-Aug-11
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I made brownies not so long ago and tried without the chocolate, just cocoa and they were nice but didn't quite work, but I wondered if it was because I had used buckwheat flour instead. I'm definitely going to give these ago with the buckwheat flour and see what they taste like - by the way I use the toasted buckwheat ground down to make a flour as I am experimenting at the moment, we have 0.6 of an acres of the stuff growing and that equates to around 130kg to 500kg of the stuff, depending on the year. eeek

Mon 22-Aug-11
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looks good Shereen, you've obviously been doing a fair bit of baking recently. i have a recipe for choc brownies that is superb and I think I'll stick with it.

I've got a charity event coming up on sunday at a friends house where I always donate apile of baking, I want to make some rocky road - does anyone have a favourite recipe for it?

Tue 23-Aug-11
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Jan, I always use Nigella's Rocky Road recipe - although sometimes I use digestives or shortcake-type biscuits - whatever I have in stock!

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Tue 23-Aug-11
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I made the brownies with the buckwheat flour but it ended up more like a chocolate cake again. Mind you I did kind of throw everything in without measuring as I was running out of time and my little cake tin is at our other apartment, so the tin I used was too big. Despite all of that it still tasted rather nice even if the consistency was anything but fudgy. cheers

Tue 23-Aug-11
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JoannaS - you can call those Joanna's buckwheat brownies 😉

 

Terrier - I've been trying to find my knack for it again after a break of years. I gave up when the new oven arrived as I didn't like using the fan oven. But I do like home made stuff. When I last made sort-of Rocky Roads I used the BBC's Chocolate Fridge Cake recipe, as it had apricots instead of cherries. And instead of 75g of raisins, I put half sultanas and half chopped dates, as I had dates to use up. It went down very well in work.

Tue 23-Aug-11
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Cheers girls, will let you know the outcome after the weekend

Tue 23-Aug-11
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wave  Good luck with it Janet.  big_hug

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Wed 24-Aug-11
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Still up Danuta? - I'm just off to bed now, are you coming to stay with me then?

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Jan, perhaps instead of biscuits, rice crispies (or chocolate rice crispies) could be used ??

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Wed 24-Aug-11
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Hmm, not sure Val, I quite like the biscuity bit, this is on the premise that I make it on saturday and that there is still some left to give away on sunday - Ha

Wed 24-Aug-11
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I have 'refrigerator' chocolate biscuity/fruity recipe that has orange zest in it, so it is chocolate AND orange as well as all the usual stuff...interested?

Kateuk makes things at http://www.etsy.com/shop/finkstuff and sometimes she does this too http://www54paintings.blogspot.com/ and also this http://finkstuff.weebly.com/

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