Egg Free Chocolate Brownies With Mixed Nuts & Orange Peel
- 250 grams plain flour
- 100 grams unsalted butter (soft, almost melted)
- 175 grams dark muscavado sugar
- 125 grams Cocoa powder
- 125 milliliters plain yoghurt
- 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- 2 teaspoons coffee granules
- Handful of mixed nuts (hazelnuts, walnuts, pecan, peanuts, almond - any nuts of your choice)
- Orange peel of one orange, thinly sliced or finely chopped
- Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4.rnPrepare the cake tin. Grease an 18cm/7in square cake tin and line with non-stick baking parchment.
- Prepare the ingredients; mix all the dry ingredients in a bowl. Chop the nuts coarsely and set aside.
- In a clean bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy. Add the orange peel (if using).
- Beat in the yoghurt, (if you haven't got yoghurt, don't panic simply put 125mls of milk in a jug squeeze some lemon juice and leave to curdle, give it a good stir - hey presto you have a speedy curd)
- Dissolve the coffee granules in two tablespoons of warm water and add to the mixture. rnGently fold the dry ingredients into the wet mixture. rnFold in the chopped nuts to a fairly wet batter mixture.
- Spoon the brownie batter into the prepared tin and level out the top with a spatula.
- Bake in the oven for 25-30 minutes. Test using a skewer, if comes out clean turn the oven off. Allow to cool in the tin for ten minutes, and then turn on a wire rack to cool.
- To serve, cut into squares (dust with either cocoa powder or with icing sugar, your choice). I personally prefer to have them as they are. rnrnBrinda's Note: For a non vegetarian version, simply replace the yoghurt with 2 free range eggs. This cake can be made in advance and will keep well for up to one week in a sealed container that if you are can resist the temptation........
flour, unsalted butter, muscavado sugar, cocoa, milliliters, bicarbonate of soda, coffee granules, handful of mixed nuts, orange
Taken from food52.com/recipes/39100-egg-free-chocolate-brownies-with-mixed-nuts-orange-peel (may not work)