Chocolate dessert Brownie - one of the most vivid dishes of modern American cuisine. It is a flat chocolate cake (or cake) of a dense consistency with ground nuts and vanilla, and brownies with cherries, some other fruits, and cottage cheese. The name of this popular dessert is acquired because of the characteristic chocolate brown color.
Chocolate cake
Chocolate Brownie pie is very fond of American children, and adults, too, like it. Numerous American catering establishments usually offer brownie cake in ready-made form. Recipes for making cakes do not differ from the recipes for preparing the same cupcake (just a large cake cut into small pieces). Modern brownie recipes with nuts are many, depending on the characteristics of the recipe, it can have the appearance of a cake, cakes or cookies. Bake this dessert, usually in a rectangular refractory shape and cut into small rectangular portioned pieces.
How to cook chocolate brownies?
Ingredients:
- 200 g of good bitter chocolate;
- 1-2 tablespoons of cocoa powder;
- 1 tablespoon of rum or cognac;
- 200 g of sugar;
- 150 g unsalted natural butter;
- ¼ stick of natural vanilla, can be replaced with vanilla essence, vanilla oil, vanillin (3 sachets);
- 4 chicken eggs;
- 100-150 g of flour;
- a pinch of salt;
- 3/4 cups of any nuts chopped finely.
Preparation:
Preheat the oven to 180 ° C and place a rectangular baking dish, lubricated with butter, in the center.
Now we will melt chocolate and oil in an enamel (or stainless steel) pan with 2 handles. The capacity of a larger size will be filled with water to half, put on a fire and bring to a boil. A pan in which chocolate and butter, we put in a water bath and, continuously stirring, bring the mass to a homogeneous liquid-viscous state. Remove from the fire and lightly chill. Add cocoa powder, sugar, vanilla, rum (you can and a little cinnamon). We mix everything thoroughly. A little more cool and one by one we will add eggs to the chocolate mass. Carefully vzobem whisk or mixer. Add flour, ground nuts and a pinch of salt. We mix it.
We bake brownies
By this time the shape in the oven has warmed up enough. Carefully remove the form from the oven and pour the resulting mass into it. You can first spread a form of oiled baking paper - so, of course, it will be more convenient, but it is not necessary. Put the form in the oven and bake for 30 minutes. We check the readiness with a toothpick or match: after the sample in the center of the cake, the toothpick should remain slightly moist and with pieces of chocolate. Do not overexpose the brownies in the oven, otherwise they will become too dry, and so it should not be. We take the form out of the oven and cool it, putting it on a wet towel - so the cake will be easier to separate from the shape. Put the cupcake-brownie on a large dish (it is convenient to do this by turning the shape) and cut into rectangular portions. Serve this dessert is slightly warm or chilled. It's good to serve vanilla ice cream and
Add fruit
You can cook brownies with cherries, plums or other fruits, including dried fruit. Naturally, in such cases fruit without seeds is used. You can use fruits, preserved in their own juice and frozen. Of course, you should first unfreeze them and throw them back in a colander to remove excess liquid. Fruit in the dough is added in the last turn just before you send the cake to the oven to bake.