Chocolate brownies - paul's version

Who can resist a good chocolate brownie? You know, the slightly flattened appearance, the crunchy exterior and the soft goo-ey centre! These are perennial favourites with my children and their friends. Even their friends' parents ask for them ! What's more they're so easy to make!

Ingredients

250 g butter

250 g dark chocolate (ideally 70% cocoa content)

3 medium eggs

300 g caster sugar

150 g plain flour

50 g self raising flour 

125 g crushed "oreo" biscuits

Let's start by placing the butter and dark chocolate in a saucepan and stir over a low heat until all silky and smooth. 

Place the eggs and caster sugar into a bowl and beat until the mixture is light and fluffy - try to keep as much air as possible in the mix.

Add the plain and self raising flours into the butter and chocolate mix and stir well. Take 125 g of oreo biscuits, place in a plastic bag and crush using a rolling pin, leaving a few fair-sized chunks. Add to the chocolate mix and now fold in the creamed butter and sugar.

When fully mixed, pour into a greased and lined 23 cm (or thereabouts) square cake tin and bake in a pre-heated oven at 180 C for 30 minutes or until set. The brownies should retain a bit of spring, but still be goo-ey in the centre.

Remove from oven and baking tray and leave to cool on a wire rack. Finally cut into squares, resulting in 16 or 25 great brownies, soft and goo-ey with bits of oreo here and there!.

These brownies are really quite special as a result of  mixing in the oreo's - I've even experimented with bourbon creams, but the oreos come out tops.

Enjoy baking these, and above all else enjoy the pleasure of seeing the children woof these down in seconds!!!!

Comments

[CheapAppetite]

Paul,
Thanks for sharing your brownie recipe. I never in a million year think of putting crushed oreo cookies in the brownie. But it does sound like a good idea. Very creative!

Cheers,
Tana

[pete]

This recipe looks good and quick to prepare. Thks

[Paul]

Hope you enjoy them Tan and Pete!