Monday, March 22, 2010

Delicious Brownies




Now, I am not a giant fan of chocolate. In fact, I very rarely eat chocolate, in any form; brownies, chocolate cake, etc. However, these are some of the best brownies ever.
And the best part? THEY ARE SIMPLE! Except for the whipped cream. But that is so unbelievably worth it, so it does not even matter. 


So here it is, Brownies with a White Chocolate Whipped Cream


You'll want to start with the whipped cream, as it takes longer. So you'll need:
A whole bag of your favorite white chocolate chips + 1 cup of heavy cream. That is it. 
Throw those into a pot and heat on low heat until the chips are melted. Once they are melted, you can raise the heat slightly, but still not even past medium. Now, stir constantly and heat for about 15-20 minutes. Stir CONSTANTLY. White chocolate has a habit of burning, and burnt whipped cream just does not sound fun. Then remove from heat and let it cool while you move on to the brownies.


For the brownies you will need:
1 1/2 cups of white sugar
3/4 cup of flour
3/4 cup of cocoa
3 eggs
3/4 cup of butter
1  cup of chocolate chips

a 9 x 13 pan, and an oven that has been preheated to 350. 
Oh, and a pot.


So to start, you'll melt the butter into a pot. If you only want to use one bowl/pot for the whole process, use a seemingly unnecessary large pot for this part. Anyway, once the butter is melted remove it from the heat.
Stir in the white sugar, followed by the cocoa once it is combined. 
Add the eggs, one at a time, mixing after each one. Throw in 2/3 of a cup of the chocolate chips after this. 
Once everything is extremely mixed, throw in the flour. Now this is the important part: BARELY mix it. If you over mix or even mix past the point of it being combined, it will turn your brownies cakey instead of chewy. Now if you want cakey instead of chewy, mix at your own will. However, chewy > cakey in brownies, so I'd say stick with barely mixing it. 
Once that is done, throw it into your greased/parchment-paper lined pan (or ungreased/unlined...your choice), throw the rest of the chocolate chips over the batter. Pop them in the oven for about 20 minutes. 


While those are cooking, you'll want to bring back the white chocolate situation. Now this is the part where I pray to the money trees everyday that eventually I will get a kitchen aid stand mixer, however, I do not yet have one... So it took me about forty minutes of whipping with a hand electric mixer. But anyway, whip as you normally whip, be it in your fancy little kitchen aid where you have to do no work, or old fashioned with a whisk. Now the important part is to NOT spread it on the brownies until they are COMPLETELY cool. Otherwise you will have wasted a lot of time whipping. 


Hope you enjoy. They are my favorite brownies. 

1 comments:

alfinky on March 29, 2010 at 12:35 PM said...

nice nice...wheredja get the brownie recipe? I have tried 2 brownie recipes. One from Mark Bittman's blog on the NY Times site and one from Luisa at The Wednesday Chef...Hers was very complex and chocolaty and his was yummy as well...Those Choc truffle browines from the mix at Trader Joe's are very good, too. Strange that a non-cho lover posted about brownies-THE ultimate choc food.

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