Brownie buttons

Made these brownie buttons as a treat for my colleagues sometime back and only remembered to post them now. :P I baked them in muffin cups as I could not find the corrrect silicon mold that is sitting somewhere at home.
Recipe adapted from Doris Greenspan – From my home to yours.

Dark Chocolate Macadamia Brownies

Giving in to my cravings of brownies. :P

Very moist and fudgy.... hmmm... i'm in fudge heaven!
What you need

• 200gm butter
• 180gm dark chocolate (broken into pieces)
• 180gm caster sugar
• 1 1/2 tsp vanilla paste
• 4 eggs
• 150gm self-rising flour (sifted)
• 100g roasted macadamia nuts, coarsely chopped
• 100g dark chocolate droplets

What to do

• Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C, and line an 8-in square cake tin with baking paper and set aside.
• Melt 180gm of dark chocolate and butter in a brain marie. Once the mixture is smooth and shiny, set aside to cool for 8-10 minutes.
• Once the chocolate mix has cooled, add caster sugar and vanilla extract and whisk in till smooth. Then add the eggs, one at a time, whisking well after each addition. The mixture should be thick and gooey.
• Coat the macadamia nuts and 100g of chocolate chunks in flour and set aside.
• Fold in the flour into the chocolate mixture.
• Fold in the coated macadamia and chocolate droplets.
• Pour batter into the lined baking tray and bake for 40-50 minutes, or till a wooden skewer inserted into the middle comes out with moist crumbs clinging to it.
• Once baked, allow to cool completely, then chill the brownie in the fridge for 30 minutes to firm it up, making it easier to slice.

My fav brownies.....

Altho' I like eating brownies, I dun set about looking for a fav recipe.... and in my opinion,brownies go best with ice -cream or a glass of milk, tho' I seldom do that, I just pop one into my mouth as and when i feel like it! hah...

I chanced upon this brownies recipe in the Hershey site long-time ago, and it always dun disappoint. The recipe is so versatile and easy to work on... u dun even need a mixer! The resulting brownie is the cake-like type, with fine crumbs and u can juz addd anything u want into the batter, be it nuts or raisins or chocolates! For this batch, I added walnuts and white chocolate chips... yum!

What you need

• 1 cup butter (melted)
• 1 cup sugar (original recipe called for 2 cups!! i found it way too sweet)
• 4 eggs
• 2 tspsvanilla essence
• 3/4 cup cocoa powder
• 1 cup flour
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1cup chopped nuts (optional)
• 1/2 cup white choclate chip (optional)

What to do

• Preheat oven to 180C. Line a 8x8in baking tin with greaseproof paper (u can also use a 13x9in tin and resulting brownies will be short).
• Melt butter over the stove or microwave oven. Stir in sugar while butter is still warm. Add in vanilla essence at this stage too.
• Add eggs, one @ a time and mixed till incorporated.
• Add in cocoa powder, beat till well blended. (I used an egg beater thru'out).
• Sift flour with baking powder and salt, beat till well incorporated.
• Stir in nuts and chips at this stage. Then pour batter into prepared tin.
• Bake @ 180C for abt 35mins. Frost (with chocolate!!!) if desired.
• Cut into desired size.