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Brownies with white chocolate buttons
Posted: 28 October '09 by Ciara
Brownies with white chocolate buttons
I was “surfing the net” a few weeks ago looking for a brownie recipe and came across a Nigella Lawson one. I have to confess, it was the first time that I have ever tried one of her recipes and I can tell you I was delighted with the results. These have to be the nicest brownies I have tasted. The gooey centre is to die for! I tried them firstly, for myself, Cor and Sophie and must admit I ate the majority of them.
The second time I made them was at the weekend just past, for my family in Belfast and they absolutely loved them. This time round, I added more chocolate buttons. You’d swear they’d never seen chocolate the way they went on about them.
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Ingredients:
- 375g dark chocolate - I use Green & Blacks as they are made with 70% cocoa solids
- 375g unsalted butter at room temperature
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 6 eggs
- 350g caster sugar
- 225g plain flour
- 250g white chocolate buttons
- brownie tin
Method:
- Preheat oven to 180C/Gas 4/350F
- Line brownie tin base and sides
- Melt butter and chocolate together in a bowl over a pot of boiling water
- In another bowl, beat eggs with sugar and vanilla extract
- Sift the flour into another bowl with salt
- When chocolate mixture has melted let it cool before beating in the eggs and sugar, then the flour
- Fold in white chocolate buttons, then beat slightly and scrape unto brownie tin
- Bake for 25 minutes until the top is dried to a paler brown and the centre is dark and gooey
Enjoy
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Kelly’s Strawberry Swirl
Posted: 24 September '09 by Kelly
I am usually of the thinking that a dessert is not a dessert unless it is oozing and dripping with chocolate. BUT my mind was changed (well sort of) when I tried a Gordon Ramsey dessert he made on the ‘F’ Word. I can’t remember the name so I have decided to name it ‘Kelly’s strawberry swirl’. You can obviously change the name to your own…
It is a really simple dessert to make and you can make it in advance and keep it in the fridge for whenever your guests arrive. Simple and delicious…
Ingredients
- 2 Punnets of strawberries, quartered
- Balsamic Vinegar
- One large tub of vanilla custard
- Small tub of double cream
- Approx 80g of meringues crushed
- Sugar
Method
- Cut the strawberries into quarters and place them in a bowl
- Add about half a small bottle of Balsamic vinegar
- Add 5 tablespoons of sugar to the strawberries and balsamic (or enough so whenever you taste the vinegar has lost some of its acidic taste)
- Put all of this into a pan with NO oil and simmer until the strawberries have cooked and created a ‘jam like’ consistency
- While this simmers you can now start to make the rest of the dessert
- Place the custard into a bowl and add half of a small tub of double cream and stir
- Once the strawberries are almost ‘jam like’ you are ready to construct the dish
- Get a large tall glass and add the custard and cream first
- Add the crushed meringues
- Add the strawberries
- Repeat this until your glass if full
This really is a delicious dessert, very tasty and simple to make.
Enjoy
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