Showing posts with label Comfort Food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Comfort Food. Show all posts

Saturday, November 19, 2011

Delicious Chocolate Brownies


If you have done something bad, and are looking for forgiveness, then, you have come to the right place, I dont think anyone could resist, I am posting this as I have been a very bad blogger, and I thought this would redeem myself as I havent been posting recipes for a while... therefore I am posting these forgiveness Chocolate Brownies, they are delicious, moist, soft and goo-ey.

Ingredients

Dry Ingredients

1/4 Cup of Cocoa Powder
2 cups of Sugar
2 cups of flour
1/2 tsp of salt
1/2 tsp of bicarb

Wet Ingredients

1 Cup of water
125g of Margarine
1/2 cup of oil
2 large freerange eggs

Preheat oven to 160 Degrees Celcuis.

Melt the margerine, add to a bowl and add water, oil and eggs and mix with a hand blender.
Add all the dry ingredients to a bown and mix, then add all the wet ingredients into the dry and mix again, until you have a very smooth mixture.

*** you can add half a cup on pecan nuts (finely chopped) if you like.

Add this mixture to a 20cm x 20cm baking dish, which is lined with greese proof paper,
and bake for 35 minutes.

After baking, turn out the brownie onto a cooling rack, and allow to cool completely.

Now make the Chocolate Icing

1 Cup Icing suger
20 mls of water
half a cup of chocolate chips

Melt chocolate chips in a bowl, over a bowl of hot water.
add water to icing and mix, then add into melted chocolate until you have a smooth icing mixture.

Pour over cooled brownies and let it set, then cut into squares and eat.


Thursday, June 16, 2011

Jan Ellis Pudding


Now, I am really letting out my secrets, but its so good that I have to share it... real comfort food for winter, or any time...

Ingredients

Dough

1 tsp Baking Powder
375ml of Self Raising Flour (3/4 cup)
125ml of Sugar (1/2 Cup)
Pinch of salt
125ml of Milk
2 eggs
25 ml of soft Butter
30 ml of Apricot Jam

Mix all the above together
Pour mixture into a greased dish
Bake in a preheated oven at 180 degrees Celsius for 30 minutes until golden brown
While the it is baking make the sauce

Sauce

Add all the below ingredients into a pan and slightly heat...

250 ml of Hot Water
250 ml of Cream
150 ml of Butter
250ml of Sugar
5ml of Vanilla Essence

Pour the sauce over the pudding when it comes out of the oven,
and leave it until the sauce has been absorbed.

Eat and enjoy it... because its amazing!!