Have just started baking, once a month, for the church cafe. Here is the brownies recipe I am presently using:
10 oz soft butter
11oz sugar (should be 13oz, I reduced it)
4 eggs, large if possible
1 teaspoon baking powder, plus a large pinch.
3oz cocoa powder
5oz plain flour
4oz chopped chocolate
A couple of tablespoons milk or cream if needed, to loosen slightly. Mixture will be fairly stiff.
Cream butter and sugar first, if butter is not very soft. Add other ingredients, mix well, Spoon into a 12 x 9 inch flat traybake tin, lined with well-greased tinfoil.
Bake (at least 25 - 30 minutes, original recipe states 35 - 40) at 160 degrees fan oven (Gas Mark 4) until slightly firm in the middle and shrinking slightly away from the edges.
Cool in tin, remove foil and cut when cold.
Then there are Adele's brownies, too: the hot butter gives a crackly top.
1. Combine 114 g (4oz) 1/2 cup hot butter with 1 tbsp oi amd 225g (8 oz) 1 1/8 cup sugar
2. Whisk 2 eggs with 2 tsp vanilla
3. Fold in 60 g (2oz) 1/2 cup flour and 60 g (2oz) 1/2 cup cornflour
4/ Bake 20 - 25 minutes.
