I just have to share a recipe for Chocky Brownies which I got from my Mum at the weekend. I am a rotten baker. Really hopeless in fact. I have a few easy things I can make like Lemon cake, flapjack, Chocky Slices with coconut (really good), simple sponge cakes, nothing remotely complicated or that includes bicarb and baking powder!!
The problem I have had for ages, is that The Other eats a very limited diet. He really only eats sweet stuff and I am always buying, fairy cakes, tins of fruit, custard, brownies, toffee shortbread, malty loaf, almond and cherry cake, almond slices, and so on. It is ludicrously expensive. He also eats a lot of different types of cereals so I have to buy a whole load of those too.
I was complaining about this state of affairs to my Mum over the weekend who is an absolutely fantastically talented cook. She is especially good at all sorts of tea time cakes, biscuits, shortbread, mars bar cakes, brownies, you name it, she makes it. Really well. Most of the limited things I make are from recipies she’s given me. But last weekend, she had some superb Brownies she’d made and said how easy they are to make. I didn’t believe her as I couldn’t imagine anything that tasted so good could be easy, but I have just made a batch of the Brownies and so for anyone out there who is not a good cook and hasn’t made Brownies before I recommend the following recipe. (Sorry, don’t do grams)!
- 2oz Butter/Margerine,
- 2oz Plain chocolate
- 6oz Muscovado sugar
- 2 Large eggs, beaten
- 4oz Self raising flour
- 1oz Cocoa powder
- Chopped walnuts (optional)
Yummy!
Melt the butter and chocolate in a pan. Add all the other ingredients and mix well. Shove into a well greased, floured tin, (8×6″). Bake in moderate oven, 180C or 350F or Gas mark 4 or in bottom right oven of a four door Aga, for 15 – 20 mins. Allow to cool in tin, and cut up.
That’s it! Easy peasy! My tin was square, 8×8″ and I cooked them for a good 20 mins. I got 16 pieces and they are so delicious I can’t believe I haven’t tried to make them before. I am going to be making the next recipe in the batch Mum gave me over the next few days so if I have any more success I will post here! I wonder if this makes me a ‘Yummy Mummy’!?
Occasional Scribbles 
This looks so easy, thanks for that. My daughter here was making her son’s first birthday cake last night for us all to eat when we see him today, hope it turned out well. I will know when we go over if there is a bought cake sitting that it has been a disaster, she got my recipe for banana cake which is really failsafe so fingers crossed. Get your Mum to write down all her recipes for you in a jotter, I did this for my 2 girls and they both use them a lot, even the recipes that you would only use occasionally for parties etc. If they are not written down they can end up lost forever.
By: Lynette on 29/08/2008
at 7:48 am
Your are absolutely right! My Mum has a huge recipe book that is full so she shoves in lots of bits of paper with recipies on and then can’t find them again. I need to get her a new book.
We always laughed at my Grandmother because she always made the Christmas pudding and none of us had the secret recipe. Whenever she travelled anywhere, she would call out at the last minute the location of the Christmas pud recipe incase anything happened to her!
By: scribbles08 on 29/08/2008
at 11:00 am