Brownies as a rule work as devilish little mood elevator charms, and although there never can be one perfect recipe, these chocolate sodden, nuts bejeweled diabolical squares are indeed moan inducing. The reason these are called no woe brownies is because they’re the perfect antidote to many a life’s sads. They will diminish most of your life worries, though these do tend to have a rather crack life after effect, and you might be swayed to do something absolutely indecorous..but that shouldn’t stop you from either committing to that act or making these exquisite squares of forbidden pleasures. Not only do these little babies lusciously gratify your most carnal cravings, they also do double duty as your sinning needs..so if you’re one of those straight-laced, down on your luck decent ones out there, baking and ingesting one of these is guaranteed to write you off as one dirty sinner, because these brownies are in fact the miscreant adulterers of all food groups.
Now these are called no woe brownies and they are but for the little side effect that these will make you fat, and what could be more woeful than that? on the other hand if you eat another one of these, you might not feel so bad after all, and they are the perfect remedy for an aching heart.
Let’s be absolutely clear that these are not the cakey brownie kinds, I mean what’s even the point of a cakey brownie when you might as well just eat a cake. No sir..these are dense, fudgey, and every bite is packed with chunks of sweet divinity, because these have three different kinds of chocolate components.
bring on all the good stuff..chocolate chunks or chips separated into two heaps, eggs, vanilla extract, flour, cocoa powder, butter, chopped salted pistachios, sugar and coffee granules.
This is an easy easy recipe..all can me made into one bowl, and an oval bowl doesn’t really help much. So butter diced into chunks
and chunks of chocolate part-1. This one is meant for melting purposes with the butter. You can either melt the butter and chocolate over heating water in a heat proof bowl or melt in a microwave, in 30 second bursts.
add in the coffee granules. These make the chocolate more chocolatey.
this is what you get. satan’s swimming pool. Take a dip and salvation..or you can make brownies.
add in the sugar
mix well. You’ll see that the sugar doesn’t really dissolve and that’s alright, because everything will come together just fine.
crack in the eggs, one at a time and mix well before adding another.
make sure to incorporate the eggs well into the batter and you’ll end up with something like this.
add in the vanilla
and the cocoa powder and mix
add in the flour
chocolate chunks that are supposed to stay as chunks in here
and finally in with the salted nuts. It’s the salted nuts that add another dimension and elevate these brownies from fantastic to ecstatic.
mix it all in well. Ah, this marvelous mound of magnificence.
scrape the batter into a buttered baking tray
smooth well and bake at 180°C for 30-35 minutes, or until a knife inserted comes out clean
ah…sigh!!! cut into squares if you care to share, or just dive in with a fork.
here it is..in a rueful light..
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Ingredient amounts
Flour: 70g (1/2 cup)
Butter: 120g (1/2 cup)
Chocolate dark (for melting): 170g (1 heaped cup)
Chocolate chunks (milk or dark): 90g (1/2 cup)
Cocoa powder: 30g (1/4 cup)
Eggs: 3
Vanilla extract: 1 tsp
Coffee granules: 1 tablespoon
Salted pistachio: 70g (heaped 3/4cup)- you can use any salted nuts of your preference. salted peanuts would be great here too.
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Recipe instructions: melt the butter, coffee granules and dark chocolate over a heat proof bowl or into a microwave. Add in sugar and mix briefly. Crack in the eggs, one at a time and mix thoroughly. (Let the mixture cool before adding in the eggs)
Add in the vanilla extract, cocoa powder, flour, chocolate chunks and salted nuts. Mix until well incorporated.
Scrape into a buttered baking tray and bake at 180°C for 30-35 minutes, or until a knife inserted comes out clean
if this doesn’t push you into the kitchen with a slab of chocolate in hand..you don’t deserve to sin.
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