Best Chocolate Brownies

 Best Bistro Style Chocolate Brownies

This is an amazingly easy recipe for Brownies. Great if you are simply feeling a little peckish or if you have someone drop in and you want something delicious to serve with a cup of hot tea.

Ingredients:

1/2 cup melted butter
2/3 cup pure cocoa
1 cup sugar
2 whole eggs
1/2 cuo of all purpose flower
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 tsp salt
optional: you can add some chopped walnuts into the batter.

Preheat over to 175 C.

Mix all ingredients in a bowl until everything is combined. prepare an oiled baking form and spread the batter evenly. Put the form in the oven and bake for 25- 30 minuted. check with tooth picks after the 25 minutes.

 

 

after testing I needed another 5 minutes to get it done.

Banana Bread Recipe

Banana Bread Recipe 

 

 

I'm a little fussy when it comes to bananas. I think they taste best when they are yellow but before the skin starts getting spots. I really don't like them once they get soft. So banana bread is a great solution. This is an easy recipe from my favorite cook book.

Ingredients

• ½ cup of butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 medium eggs
• 3 medium sized over ripe bananas mashed
• 2 cups all purpose flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• ¼ tsp salt
• 1 cup sour milk*

Cream the butter and sugar together thoroughly. Beat the eggs well. Add eggs to mix and beat well. Sift the flour, baking soda and salt into the batter and mix. Add banana and sour milk to the batter and beat thoroughly. Grease a bread pan and pour mix in evenly. Bake in  oven preheated to 175°C for 60 minutes or until bread tests done.(use toothpick test)

*to make sour milk add ¼ teaspon lemon juice to milk and let stand for 20 minutes.

 

 

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