The Easiest Brownies Ever and a Comeback

Chocolate: luscious, lumpy. loads of love...... 

Bad Photography and and a happy day!
A birthday and chocolate!
Happiness!

Somethings are better left to the nose and the olfactory senses...

Butter and chocolate and vanilla ...

The first time in the new house...

Should that be like a  a ritual ???

The first time is always special...

Any which ways...

Is special!

This day the chocolate was as a way to satisfy some cravings...

And we had no chocolate!

So cocoa!

Get rid of the smell of turpentine...

I've just painted one wall green...

I love the hues of that colour...Hubby dear is more the white and bright kinds, he professes his deep and passionate love for white walls , all my lamps will be lit, casting beautiful shadows on ever body who is trying to hide something or the other-but hubby dear will still switch on the over head tube and strobe lights...

I've tried in vain to explain to him many, many times that less light hides imperfections...

But he says-" Life is like the brownies that you keep baking...

Tastier if cracked and brown on top!!!
And you need to see it like  that!"

(But WTH! He has to go to work some time...so we paint-green and gold!)

In the words of Sanskriti Sawhney-The cracked top and brown brownies were Yummilicious!

In honour of Sanskriti Sawhney...on her second birthday!

May god bless you and may your many shenanigans bring smiles to every body's faces!!!

for the 

The Easiest Brownies Ever and a Comeback...

you need

3/4 cup butter

1 1/2 cups sugar

2 tsp vanilla essence

3/4 cup plain flour 

1/2 cup cocoa powder

4 eggs

1 tsp baking powder

pinch of salt

1/2 cup of chopped walnuts-optional-I obviously skipped.

Once you decide to let the lackadaisical attitude and its lazy bum rest in the quilt...turn on the oven to 175C/350F.Once the oven is heating...there is no way you'll want to stay away from it.

The best way to start...

Sieve the dry stuff on a sheet of paper- saves the cleaning up!

Twice...

That's the butter, a wee bit melted and a wee bit of vanilla essence into it added erroneously -before its time...

Add in the sugar and try to whip it with all the force possible ...
Yes the electric beater was still in the cartons...packed!

One egg at a time, all 4 in...one by one whipped in well, and now the remaining vanilla essence...

And now, the flour and cocoa and baking powder and salt mix...
Lightly folded in...

A square tin, lined with parchment paper..My brownies have a history of not coming out totally from the dish...I love them gooey, you see...
Its almost as if the still gooey ,partially uncooked batter is a bit afraid of debuting ...coming of age!
Coming of age is such a problem with all- no body wants to let go of youth!
Neither do I.
I know the batter still looks a little grainy, the sugar isn't all dissolved in...I don't bother with that , the heat of the oven brings the sugar to its knees...always!

The batter on the spoon and some more was licked off raw...the rest we spread and popped into the oven...
Waiting for the magic smells for about 50 minutes.

50 minutes and many pokes in the  tummy- the brownie had been poked atleast 5 times to see if it was done-sweet child could not wait..

Sliced and snowed upon with icing sugar...
A toast to the little angel who does not want to go to "Kool" (school)and who is scared of Baby Sitting and likes her new teacher "Miss Sharon"...
Happy To you -Birthday!
Live a long , happy and stress free, chocolate and cup cake filled life!

Bad lights yet...

And bad photographs...

But that does not take away from these EASY brownies...

Brownies never taste so good without semi sweet chocolate...but we hardly missed the silkiness and the moistness in these decadent bites out of chocolate heaven!

So easy , my little baker girls and boys can make them...
Try them out ...you'll love theses!!
A promise to be more regular with blogging and baking...now that the spring is in the air...and the fumes of paint are in my house!

So what are you baking today???