Another first time for something new

I woke up quite late today and I was feeling rather tired from not sleeping properly the whole week. I pulled myself out of bed and I walked down to my kitchen…looked at my buttercup tub…OMG its calling me!!! Let’s bake!!! Let’s bake something different today…so I sat down and I pulled my new cookbook out of the drawer. ..I was flipping the pages and I remember setting my eyes on this fantastic looking brownie…but I was not able to find the recipe and seriously, I never made a brownie before...but how hard would it be right?? I have my cookbook and I’m sure everything would be fine…I had the confidence.

Get the book! It’s the most delicious book that I’ve even laid my eyes on “Chocolate Box – Indulge in the finest chocolate recipes for serous chocolate lovers”. It’s only RM29.90 and you can find it in any MPH bookstore. Pg 71 Baked to Perfection – Double Chocolate Brownies with Fudge Sauce but of course…I ended up changing this and that from time to time and putting things that is not in the list made it theirs and mine at the same time.

Well, as normal I started weighing and preparing all the ingredients; butter, plain chocolate, caster sugar, salt, vanilla essence, eggs, plain flour, cocoa powder& white chocolate chips. Today is the first time as well I’ve tried this method to melt the cooking chocolate – putting a bowl over a saucepan of gently simmering water. I used my mum’s trustable Pyrex and put filled it with the cooking chocolate and butter…it was interesting. It slowly melted and in this method, you would need to constantly stir the chocolate and butter so that it doesn’t become lumpy. Once that was done, I put the sugar and salt into the melted chocolate + butter. Stir, stir, stir…then it says, put 2 large eggs…how large is large? I was confused. I know that the eggs was rather small but do I add 1 , 2 or 3 extra eggs? Looking at the paste, I decided to just follow my guts feeling…don’t add anything! Just go with those 2 small ones.

The next thing to do was to put the flour and cocoa powder into the paste and guess what I had to do next? Yup…stir some more! Wah…as the flour mixes with the rest of the ingredients, it is starting to become harder and it took more energy to stir them together…
After a while…done! I was ready to put it into the oven…looking at the paste…eh, something is missing!!! Chocolate chips!!!!!!!!!!! And this is the best part…it was suppose to be only 100g of white chocolate but I put in more and on top of that, I put in dark chocolate chips too!!! Wa wa woom!

Once it was in the baking tray, in the oven it went for 40 minutes.

TING!!! It was done just on time (7:20 pm) when I wanted to leave my house and I just took half of it for the guys at work…

Enjoy the pictures which shows the step by step process of coming out with this fantastic cake!

Getting the butter and chocolate melted

Add sugar and salt in once the chocolate and butter is smooth

Mixing the sugar into the mixture

Next, the confusing eggs

Then the flour and cocoa powder

Don't forget to...STIR like there is no tomorrow!!

Adding the chocolate chips...the more the better!

Don't forget to STIR again!!!

The baking tray...all greased up

Ready to be transformed... Final outcome

Findings: The top part of the brownie is crispy it gives the brownie a little crunchier feeling...the middle is the BOMB...it's moist and it's really rich. Even after a few hours, the cake was still warm and the aroma...was simply tempting. Overall, for the different taste buds that we have in the office, most of them said it was perfect but I had 1 or 2 who said that it was rather sweet...duh, look at the amount of chocolate that is in there!!! hahahaha...Looking back at all those happy faces and all those who flocked around my table just to steal a few more pieces from the rest...I remembered a phrase that I read long time ago...

"Dear God, I can't loose weight so help make the people around me fat" hahahaha...let's just say that I might just change this hobby into a mission!! hahahaha