Cooking for friends is fun and lovely, especially when your friends are chocoholics 🙂
Last night I had two friends coming over for a small dinner party. After eating a 2kg roast chicken, I served my homemade brownies (totally made from scratch). Even though the consumption of the big bird made us really full, we still had some space left for a piece of rich, gooey but heavenly chocolaty brownies. I have to admit they were a hit considering the comment my friend made after munching the second piece of brownies:
‘It’s so good to know the cause of your death!’ … and we all laughed, laughed and laughed …
Please note: Too much chocolate is never good but a small piece of good 70% cocoa dark chocolate is a healthier option 🙂
Enjoy your life and let chocolate release your happiness hormone!
Recipe adopted from: Cook with Jamie by Jamie Oliver
Dark Chocolate brownies with nuts and cherries
You will need:
250 g butter
200 g dark chocolate such as (make sure you use a very good quality chocolate such as Lindt Excellence 70% Cocoa Dark), broken up
150 g pitted cherries on syrup, drained
150 g walnuts
80 g cocoa powder, sifted
65 g plain flour, sifted
1 tsp baking powder, sifted
350 g caster sugar
4 eggs
strawberries, creme fraiche or vanilla ice creams, to serve
Directions:
Preheat the oven to 180 ℃.
Line a rectangular baking tin with a baking paper.
In a bowl over some simmering water, melt the butter and chocolate and mix until smooth. Add the cherries and nuts. Stir all together.
In another bowl, mix the cocoa powder, flour, baking powder, sugar and add the hot chocolate mixture. Stir well. Beat the eggs and mix in until well combined and smooth.
Pour the mixture into the baking tin. Bake for 25 -30 minutes. Let it rest in a tin for a couple of hours before cutting into pieces. The brownies should be gooey inside; for a slightly drier version bake a bit longer.
These brownies rock!
Ooooo…I HAVE to try these… I just love chocolate-cherry combo! Super recipe, Jo! :o) Happy Week ((HUGS))
Please try it – it’s a good one 🙂 J.O. suggests dry cherries but I have done it already a couple of times with wet ones and that works much better I think 🙂
Hugs for you too darling !!!
Daaaaahling, you must send me your address so I can come over and eat these delicious brownies. My goodness, they just look so divine! I’m drooling.
*kisses* HH
Dear HH it would be lovely to have you here and did in these brownies together:) Let me know when you plan to visit A’dam 🙂
All the brownies, I would like to taste! They all seem to be so delicious… and yours are so beautiful! I really love that you added cherries!
Hi Isabelle, thanks for stopping by 🙂 Cherries give this recipe a new twist – I really enjoyed having them in my brownies:)
Wow I love the look of these! I only wish I could eat them! But anyway I can make them and watch my family enjoy….. I might try and make it with rice flour as they look as if they are meant to be quite gooey?
Javane 🙂
Is this because of your allergy? my knowledge about gluten free products and gluten allergies is so limited … so sorry …. let me know if rice flour worked well 🙂 xxx
I will Im itching to try the recipe using rice flour now. BTW added another rose-water recipe for you 🙂 nan e berejeni.
I am a dark chocoholic! I am totally loving your brownie cos of “good quality choc” as the ingredient.
Thanks for stopping by squirrel bread! I’ve since reconciled with brownies. You were right, I was so wrong! These look insane. Might have to try them soon, especially with the strawberries.
Cheers,
*Heather*
Hi Heather, thanks for your revisit 🙂 I’m sure you will soon become a big fan of brownies 🙂 and strawberries will help a lot!!!! believe me 🙂 xxx
darling these look fabulous, must try!! 🙂
please do 🙂 thanks for visiting!!!
This must be the most delicious thing I’ve ever seen in my life. Your brownies are perfection.
thank you thank you 🙂 the recipe is easy and eating those brownies is always a pleasure!
Mmmmmm…..adding cherries is def a good tip – Looks yummy:)I serve mine with good quality vanilla ice-cream – heating up the brownie slightly is a must to!
I like that brownies & vanilla ice cream combo!!!!