A brownie is many a food lovers guilty pleasure. You know you ought not to, because once you have one, you’d like another and another until you feel gluttonously guilty. Everyone deserves a little treat every so often though. And if you make your own, at least you know what you are making, and what unhealthy ingredients are going into it.
Why not be a little bit adventurous? No, I don’t mean playing a cheeky game of bingo on a work night, or doing a skydive. Why not try a different type of brownie? A strawberry one perhaps? They are extremely easy to make. Simply follow the recipe below. It only takes an hour out of your time:
Ingredients
- 1 cup melted butter (cooled)
- 1/2 cup cocoa powder
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1 1/2 cups cake flour
- 1 egg
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- Sliced fresh strawberries
Directions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F and grease a pie plate. It will preferably be 9 inches.
- Put the melted butter, tablespoon of vanilla extract and egg into a bowl and whisk together until combined into a batter.
- Next you need to turn roughly 1/4 of a cup of the sliced strawberries, into a purée and whisk into the already made batter.
- Get another bowl and sift the flour, sugar and cocoa powder together, before you fold it into the batter in the other bowl. Mix together thoroughly.
- The mixture needs to look like it’s in between being a cookie dough and a cake batter. Add more flour where necessary.
- Then fold the remains of the sliced strawberries (these will moisten the brownies up again) into the mixture, and pour into the pie plate.
- Bake for 30-40 minutes. When you insert a skewer, if it comes out clean, it is cooked. Leave to cool before serving.
Sounds delicious! And good point about making it yourself and knowing what’s in it – it makes the guilty pleasures much more justifiable!
This sounds good!