This is a great recipe and one I make again and again. Every time I whip up a batch of brownies I am amazed at how quick and easy they are to make. I halved the recipe below and baked in a 9 inch square tin, I also substituted the walnuts for fudge pieces. These brownies are unbelievably moist and gooey, they are everything a brownie should be.
Brownies - Nigella Lawson How to be a Domestic Goddess
Ingredients
375g soft unsalted butter
375g best quality dark chocolate
6 large eggs
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
500g caster sugar
225g plain flour
1 teaspoon salt
300g chopped walnuts (I used 200g chopped fudge)
tin measuring approx. 33 x 23 x 51/2cm
Preheat the oven to 180C / gas mark 4. Line your brownie pan - I think it's worth lining the sides as well as the base.
Melt the butter and chocolate together in a large heavy based pan.
In a bowl or wide- mouthed measuring jug, beat the eggs with the sugar and vanilla. Measure the flour into another bowl and add the salt.
When the chocolate mixture has melted, let it cool a bit before beating in the eggs and sugar, and then the nuts and flour. Beat to combine smoothly and then scrape out of the saucepan into the lined pan.
Bake for about 25 minutes (I baked mine for 22min). When it 's ready, the top should be dried to a paler brown speckle, but the middle is still dark, dense and gooey. Even with such a big batch you need to keep alert, keep checking: the difference between gungy brownies and dry brownies is only a few minutes; remember that they will continue to cook as they cool.
Makes a maximum of 48.
Nigella Lawson's How to be a Domestic Goddess is a great book, it is probably one of my most used cookbooks, I have tried a load of the recipes and it never lets me down. Every recipe I have tried has come out perfectly, I love Nigella's Lemon drizzle cake recipe or Lemon-syrup loaf cake as she calls it, it is one of the best lemon drizzle cakes I have ever tasted, I also love Nigella's American pancake recipe and her Christmas cupcakes are delicious too.
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11 comments:
I made this recipe when my parents came to stay.
It is incredibly rich and wonderfully sqidgy.
Suffice to say my stepmother ate half the batch single handed.
My only comment would be that if your oven is on the cool side like min, ( I had to cook them for an extra 15 mins). You may be gifted with extreemly squidgy brownies.
I made these at my boyfriends housed yesterday and they turned out amazingly, I used a smaller tin as that was all I had so they took longer to cook and they were 2 inches thick, they were gorgeous!!!! No complaints whatsoever
I have just tried this receipe and halved the ingredients like you said. However it has turned out like a cake :( any ideas what went wrong?
Hi Anon,
It sounds like your brownies were over-baked, they should still be wet and gooey inside when removed from the oven. You may also want to reduce the flour a tad or it may be that you beat the eggs a little over enthusiastically giving the brownies more rise than necessary.
I hope that helps!
Hi, this question may sounds stupid, but what is chopped fudge? Do you mean the chocolate kind? Thanks in advance :)
Anon,
Fudge is just a type of candy, you could use chocolate fudge but I'd use vanilla. You can buy fudge in all good sweet shops, it comes in slabs or cubes or even sometimes wrapped.
Hello,I've just made this little piece of heaven but as ive just noticed it has burnt underneath? I baked it at a slightly lower temp as I have a fan oven and lined my baking dish as stated!
Is there a way I can stop this for next time? Its all lovely and gooey like it should be its just the base x
Hi Kate,
It sounds to me like that is either to do with your oven or the baking dish you used.
Either way the brownies are getting way to much heat from underneath. The simplest way to rectify this is to place the baking dish on a baking tray instead of straight onto the oven rack.
If the base of your baking dish is particularly thin you may want to invest in a new one. You should also consider getting an oven thermometer as most ovens lie. Mine is 20C out!
Hope that helps!
Just used this recipie to make "special" brownies. added few spoons of peanut butter too. verry nice.
I made these brownies but i don't know what went wrong. I did everything according to whats written but my brownies turned out to be disgusting. They were very hard and they even tasted like alot of butter. What should i do? Any help? Please?
Hi Anon,
It sounds like you seriously over baked your brownies. You may have had the oven up way too high or baked them for far to long. This is why the brownies were hard. The butter taste you describe is probably because the butter and chocolate burnt and definitely wouldn't taste nice.
Make sure you have your oven at the right temp and take them out the oven while still wet and gooey in the middle (use a knife to check).
I hope that helps! Fingers crossed your next brownies will be delicious. :)
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