Rich and Dense Grown-up Brownies
- 50 grams Chocolate (of your choice. A chocolate bar is fine)
- 50 grams Butter
- 1 tbsp Instant coffee
- 1 Egg
- 70 grams Sugar
- 60 grams Cake flour
- 30 grams Cocoa powder (unsweetened)
- 1/2 tsp Baking powder
- 150 grams in total Walnuts, almonds, pecans, etc.
- 1 Almonds (for decoration)
- Line a baking sheet with kitchen parchment paper, spread out the nuts and roast in a 150 to 160C oven for 10 minutes.
- Leave to cool.
- Combine the ingredients and sift together.
- Line the cake tin with kitchen parchment paper.
- Have all the other ingredients at room temperature.
- Put the nuts from Step 1 into a thick plastic bag, and crush them with a rolling pin.
- The brownies will be crunchy and tastier if you don't crush the nuts too finely.
- Put the broken up chocolate, butter and instant coffee in a small pan, and melt them by holding it above another pan of hot water.
- The coffee granules can still remain undissolved!
- Break the egg into another bowl and beat.
- Add the sugar and mix well.
- Add the chocolate-coffee mixture from Step 4 and mix well.
- Add the sifted flour an fold it in quickly using a rubber spatula.
- Add the nuts from Step 3 just before the flour is completely incorporated, and mix into the batter evenly.
- Pour the batter into the lined tin, level out the surface and then drop the tin from a height a few times onto a counter to eliminate any air pockets.
- Bake in a preheated 170C oven for 10 minutes.
- Take the tin out and arrange almonds on the top in to form little hearts.
- Put back in the oven and bake at 170C for another 10 minutes.
- (I just topped half of the brownies with almonds here.)
- Take it out of the paper and remove from the tin.
- Let cool on a rack.
- When it has cooled down, cut up as you like.
- I also recommend wrapping each piece individually to give as gifts.
- This is how the cut sides look.
- It's packed with nuts!
- The moist, rich, slightly bitter chocolate and the crunchiness of the nuts are amazing!
chocolate, butter, coffee, egg, sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, walnuts
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/157061-rich-and-dense-grown-up-brownies (may not work)