Four Nut Brownies by Delia

Last night I made a first attempt at one of the recipes from the Delia Smith recipe book that I received for my birthday. I decided to start off with a brownie recipe. I don't really have a good brownie recipe, and this was something that is fairly easy to make and is likely to be good. The brownies turned out really well. A slight crust on top and very moist and chewy inside, just like brownies should be. Picture and recipe below.


Recipe:

100g mixed nuts (macadamia/brazil/pecan/hazelnuts)
50g dark chocolate
110g butter
2 large eggs, beaten
225g granulated sugar
50g flour
1tsp baking powder
1/2tsp salt

Preheat the oven to 180C.
Chop the nuts roughly and place on a baking sheet and toast them for 8 minutes in the oven.
Chop the chocolate and put it together with the butter in a heat-proof bowl over a saucepan with simmering water. Let the chocolate and butter melt and stir until well mixed.
Take off the heat and add all the other ingredients and mix well.

Pour the batter into a 15*25.5cm greased baking tin and bake for 30 minutes. Let cool for 10 minutes before cutting into squares.

A final birthday cake

As this past Wednesday was my actual birthday, I did have to make some kind of cake for it.
I wasn't really in the mood to do something extremely complicated, so once again, I went back to my new go-to-cake. This was the fifth cake I made for this birthday. At least, this time I have a picture of a slice of the chocolate cake with ricotta cheesecake swirls in it:

The latest addition to my library

Here is my latest addition to my baking library.
A friend gave me "The Delia Collection - Chocolate" by Delia Smith as a birthday present. A very good gift indeed. I've only had time to browse through it quickly yet, but there certainly seem to be many recipes that I need to try out (and I will make sure to report the results here).