If a brownie were a person it would be the kind of girl everyone has an opinion about.
Mr. B had a birthday recently and needed some baked goods to take to his office. I wanted to make brownies but hesitated… everyone always has an opinion about the perfect brownie and swears anything that deviates from their norm is just, well, not right. I wasn’t sure I could subject him to the office discussion. It was his birthday after all. And then I remembered he’s a boy and doesn’t care about such things.
I have tried a LOT of brownie recipes but I reckon this is my favourite. Though please do send/post alternatives as the search for the perfect brownie is a never ending quest in my world that it’s unlikely I’ll get bored of.
I call these harlequin toffee brownies but they don’t really need the elaborate title. Adapted from Good Food Cakes and Bakes
Ingredients:
- 200g dark chocolate
- 150g white chocolate
- 250g salted butter, cut into pieces
- 3 large eggs
- 250g dark muscovado sugar
- 85g plain flour
- 1tsp baking powder
Pop the oven onto Gas 3 and line a tray you’re going to pop your brownies in. I like my brownies large and flatish so go for a large tray, but for normal size brownies maybe a 9 inch tray would be better.
Very easy to make these. Melt the butter and both chocs in a saucepan then set aside to cool. This bit’s important as you don’t want to end up with scrambled eggs. In the meantime whisk the eggs until pale and then add the sugar until it looks all glossy and lovely. Fold choc mix into the eggy sugary mix then sift the flour and baking powder onto the top and fold in gently.
Bake for 30ish minutes until a skewer comes out with a few bits of cakey mix still on it. Then cool on a wire rack for 2 hours before you attempt to cut it. As I like my brownies really squidgy I tend to put in the fridge before cutting just to be on the safe side.
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Holly Bell 
Holly I want to thank you for this brownie recipe, it’s always been my go to recipe when I want to take baking into work or give some as a thank you!
Just wondered if you had any ideas for what else I could put in them as an addition besides chocolate chips? I was thinking maybe a Rocky Road type theme with marshmallow and bashed up biscuit and nut, would it work? xx
Hi Stella, yes these would work fine with nuts, biscuits etc – though marshmallows will melt. Maybe try adding them to the top? x
Made these and my boys (inc my hubbie) loves them AND they were SOOOOOO easy!!
Thanks
xxx
Hurrah! Pleased to hear it. x
Cannot wait to try baking these!
Loved watching The Great British Bake Off, cannot believe how perfect and delicious your bakes always looked.
Look forward to reading more!
Laura
hi holly , been following you for a couple of wees now , maybe you can help with my brownies, i used an online vrecipe but when i went to take them out of tray to coolthey fell to peices ,, any idea what i did wrong ,
thanks in advance
Which recipe did you use?
it was harrys rocky road brownie recipe
I’m really sorry, I haven’t tried it so can’t comment on that recipe. x
Thanks Holly – Although melting the sugar also works! (oops – however my lot loved these – I wanted a fudgy brownie to serve warm with vanilla ice cream) This is also miles quicker than my usual recipe, as long as you don’t mind spending over a fiver on the chocolate – any excuse to ‘use up’ the left over green and blacks white chocolate……….
Oh I am so pleased it worked out okay after my silly typo! Pleased they worked too. I often use quite cheap choc in this recipe and can barely tell the diff. Sent using BlackBerry® from Orange
Hi Holly, I’m trying this recipe and it seems to read wrong – melt the sugar and add it to the eggs???
Help!
So sorry. I don’t know why I’d written to melt the sugar. I have changed it now and apologies if you have wasted ingredients. x
Roley – I am such a fan of Nigellas. I love those brownies too. Hope you like these. They're kind of fudgey. Which is good in my book. xx
im looking forward to trying this! although the recipe i always use is nigella lawson's brownies from the book how to be a domestic goddess. They are amazing! best recipe ive tried so far.
Thank you for the link – I'm checking it out now. I have issues imagining beetroot in a sweet recipe but need to get over it!
Harlequin toffee brownies? Lovely. The addition of the white chocolate in there sounds divine. Interesting to see other comments mentioning beetroot. I just posted a chocolate beetroot recipe at
http://madaboutmacarons.com/archives/1433
It's not a brownie but a fondant. Maybe you could play with my recipe and adapt it to your brownie? Enjoy experimenting!
I have heard a lot about beetroot in choc cakes. I need to do some experimenting. Maybe wait until FIL delivers a bumper yield of beetroots to our door.
oh yum yum yum. I have no recipe I'm afraid. Our local baker does an AMAZING squidgy chocolate brownie and it has made me lazy. But this looks delicious. Your pix are always so good. My friend Bridget had an obsession with beetroot and she used to make an exquisite beetroot choc brownie. Moist and pinky-brown.
Thanks! I think the white and dark choc is the secret but am hoping people will send me their recipes! I do love a brownie! :-)
Mmmm..these brownies look so moist and rich! Yummy! :)
I like your opening quote! What a colorful description of a brownie! And the photo says it all- DELICIOUS!