dulce de leche fudge brownies.
Studying for exams puts me in 2 moods. Grumpy being the main one, I severely dislike my after-work free time being taken up by reading code and cramming in properties/method names I will possibly never use. Hungry a close contender - a problem easily resolved by a spot of stress-reducing baking.
Im not sure what brownies I like better, these ones or the normal cakey sort I normally bake. I would have to say I probably like these the best, they are soooooooo chocolatey and just mmmmm. But I have a tendency to like things that other people sometimes mis-interpret as undercooked.
Best Chocolate Fudge Cocoa Brownies
140g (1 1/4 sticks) unsalted butter
1 cup sugar
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder (use some good stuff)
1/4 teaspoon salt (skip if using salted butter)
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cold large eggs
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 jar of dulce de leche
Preheat the oven to 160°C (325°F). Line the bottom and sides of an 8-inch square baking pan.
Combine the butter, sugar, cocoa, and salt in a saucepan over very low heat. Stir until the butter is melted and the mixture is smooth and hot so that the sugar has started to dissolve a bit but the butter is not burning. Remove from the heat and set aside until the mixture is just slightly warm.
Stir in the vanilla, then add the eggs one at a time, stirring hard after each one. Add the flour and mix thoroughly for about 1 minute with a wooden spoon or a rubber spatula. Spread evenly in the lined pan (the batter will be very thick).
Dot teaspoons of dulce de leche on the surface, then take a wooden skewer and mix through the batter to create a pretty swirly effect.
Bake until a toothpick emerges with some moist crumbs sticking to it (but not wet with batter), 20 to 25 minutes. Cool completely on a rack.
Or hack with a knife, burn fingers on dulce de leche and feel sick from consuming far too many. Try and get your husband to consume the remaining brownies to save your thighs.
On a positive note, I am now a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: .NET Framework 2.0 Windows Applications!! Yay for me. 980/1000 for 70-526 and 1000/1000 for 70-536. Now for 70-548 to get my Microsoft Certified Professional Developer certification!! Go Laulau go.