Baking Basic Brownies and Chewy Chocolate Cookies

           

Here are two recipes for baked goodies by Georgia and Charlie. Keep up the great work!

How to bake a basic brownie
by Georgia

1. How to make a basic brownie. First, you have to clean your hands thoroughly. 
2. Next, you are going to get all the ingredients out which are: Butter, Dutch cocoa or cocoa, 5 eggs, Caster sugar, Vanilla extract, plain flour, 70% dark chocolate and icing sugar.
3.  Now you have to get all the appliances you need e.g: 3 bowls, a mixer ( if you have one) or a spoon, baking tin, baking paper, baking spray.
4. Once all has been prepared you will now begin the baking. First, you have to preheat the oven to exactly 170 degrees Celcius.
5.  Next, put 220 grams of butter in a suitable bowl and microwave it in chunks of 10-20 seconds, until completely melted.
6.  When this has been accomplished you will convert this liquid into your standard mixer bowl or keep in the same bowl. 
7.  You will also add to the mixer bowl 60 grams of the dutch cocoa and stir these together by hand using a spatula until they’ve just formed together. 
8. Then start whisking on high speed in the mixer or get help by another person to stir for you while you do the next step. 
9. Soon after, you will add 5 eggs into another bowl this will allow you to slop them into the mixer while it’s running or to put them in while someone else is mixing. 
10.  Now add the eggs from your bowl into the mixer one by one letting them whip and blend after each inclusion.
11.  When all eggs have been plopped in, keep whipping for a least another 5 minutes. The mixture should double in size.
12. Stop the mixer or stop mixing and then add 400 grams of caster sugar and ½ a teaspoon of vanilla extract and once again stir for another 5 mins. 
13. Now you’re going to add 15 grams of plain flour and 200 grams of chopped chocolate (70% cocoa) and fold them into the mixture by hand until just combined. 
14. Next, you’re going to spray your tray with baking spray and then cover it with baking paper. After that, you’re going to pour the batter out onto the baking tray and make sure the whole tray is covered in the mixture.
15. Put the tray into the preheated oven and let it bake for 40 mins. 
16. After 40 minutes check the brownies and take them out if the outside is solid but the inside is still a little jiggly. By jiggly I mean when the inside of brownie feels like jelly. 
17. As soon as you have removed it from the oven, let it cool down after cooled down for a couple of hours it the brownie should feel dense, chewy and gooey that means it’s good.
18. Once cooled down you must extract it from the tin and cut it into 9x9 or 3x3. After this has been finished if you would like, you can polish it off with a shower of icing sugar.