Today, I made my first brownies ever. Triple chocolate, using 80% dark chocolate. You can find the recipe here. My plan is to make a batch of Nigella's walnut brownies, substituting half walnuts for some cherries, so as keeping with my becoming a domestic goddess. However, I couldn't forget my sister's batch of these wonderful, gooey brownies that I tasted a year or so ago. She pointed me in the direction of this recipe and now me, Rob and Arlo are in brownie heaven. A small square is literally enough at a time - it's so rich and flavoursome with chunks of the milk and white chocolate mingling with the dark chocolate and cocoa.
I also really liked the way the butter and sugar are creamed in this recipe. Using a mixer - or in my case a hand blender - adds air into it, meaning the whole mixture (provided you don't fold all the other ingredients in too hard) is fluffy and light. The mixture of this tasted wonderful in the bowl and the smell in my kitchen was so good. The smell intermingled a little with the chilli con carne I made only half an hour before that - which, for the record, is very good using quorn mince (what I had left in the cupboard) and a splosh of lea & perrins.
