Chocolate Brownies with Dark and White Chocolate Chips

Chocolate Brownies with Dark and White Chocolate Chips

I have made these brownies (and the Blueberry Blondies in the next post) and for a big family gathering,  We are all bringing something to share and I am in charge of cake!

Cream together light brown sugar and butter.

Beat in some eggs.

Then fold in cocoa, plain flour, baking powder and white and dark chocolate chips – or in this case chopped up chocolate.

Smooth it into a lined baking tin.

And bake until it is firm round the edges and just slightly wobbly in the middle.  Leave in the tin to cool and then cut into pieces.

Chocolate Chip Slab Cookies

Chocolate Chip Slab Cookies

These are a family favourite and use just a few store cupboard ingredients.

First butter and light brown sugar are creamed together until they are light and really fluffy.

Next plain flour is mixed in to make a fairly solid dough.

I then chopped some plain chocolate (I use Sainsbury value dark chocolate – it is pretty good and much cheaper than chocolate chips).

The chocolate chips are stirred into the dough.

The dough is pressed into a lined tin (it doesn’t need to be lined, it is just much easier).

Then baked until fairly firm and golden.

I leave it to almost fully cool in the tin, then remove it with the lining paper and cut it into rectangles.  It should be cooled fully before putting in a tin to store.

Banana and Chocolate Chip Loaf Cake

I made this cake to use up some bananas that no one would eat as they were a bit overripe.

First I mashed the bananas and then added plain flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, sugar, butter and eggs and beat the mixture until it was smooth.

I then chopped some chocolate – which I always do instead of using chocolate chips as it is cheaper – and stirred them in.

I poured the batter into a lined loaf tin – the one I used was a bit big for the amount of mixture I made so the cake ended up quite flat – and baked the cake at a low heat for about 45 minutes.

Unfortunately the chocolate chips sank to the bottom.  I think this was partly due to the fact that I was a bit lazy and didn’t chop the chocolate small enough!  Also tossing the chips in flour first can help to stop them sinking.

Despite the sunken chocolate the cake was delicious and moist.