Peanut Butter Brownies

Anyone here love brownies?

I have jars of brownies balanced from chocolate making for my brother's wedding and been looking for recipes with peanut butter as ingredients. Then I found this recipe of Peanut Butter Brownies from Bakerella, one of my favorite place to search for dessert recipes and ideas.

Then I made three different brownies using the same recipe. The first one is Peanut Butter Brownies and Chocolate Chips.

The second one was Peanut Butter and Jelly Brownies. I piped strawberry jam and made the pattern on top of the brownies. It looks really pretty in red, don't you think?

The third one was Peanut Butter Brownies and Chocolate. The chocolate was made of Chocolate paste/spread, or you could use Nutella.

And they were baked to perfection. YUM! Don't they look delicious?

Peanut Butter Brownies madness!! Which of these three are your favorite?

Please visit Bakerella for the recipe.

Brownies

I made this brownies for someone's kids birthday. This brownies is a bit different than the steamed brownies I made last month. Steamed brownies is a bit chewy, and this one had a nice crumbs on top. It's soft and not too sweet. This one is a plain brownies. I omitted the walnuts as I know some kids didn't really like them. But I bet it would taste really good with vanilla ice cream. YUM!

Okay, I made two batches actually. The first one is plain brownies. And the second one was topped with chocolate ganache and white and chocolate chips. 

Brownies (Adapted from Professional Cooking 5th Edition)

450g Unsweetened Chocolate

675g Butter

675g Eggs

1350g Sugar

7g Salt

30ml Vanilla Essence

450g Cake Flour

450g Chopped Walnut

1. Preheat your oven at 180 degrees Celsius.

2. Melt unsweetened chocolate and butter using double boiler, or microwave. Set aside.

3. Blend eggs, sugar and salt. Do not whip. Then, add in vanilla.

4. Blend in melted chocolate into eggs and sugar mixture.

5. Sift in cake flour into the chocolate mixture. Then, fold in chopped walnut.

6. Pour into a greased and floured 8x8 inches pan (you might need more than one pan), or a bigger pan and bake for 35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.

7. Let it cool and serve. You can have it plain, topped with frosting or served with ice cream. Anyway you like it :)

Steamed Brownies

The first time I had a steamed brownies was last year during my visit to Bandung, Indonesia. A friend recommended me to try Bandung's steamed brownies. I bought 1kg of them. I gave half of them to a friend as a souvenir and divided the other half to my family members. And it wasn't enough. One portion of Bandung's steamed brownies are not going to satisfy you. You just gotta have more than one portion. That's when I decided to try and make my own steamed brownies. It wasn't as good as the one I bought in Bandung, but, it wasn't that bad either.

Steamed Brownies

200g butter

200g dark chocolate, chopped (don't use cheap chocolate, or it wouldn't taste as good)

200g flour, sieved

4# eggs

150g castor sugar

1/4tsp salt

100g walnut, chopped (optional)

1. Melt butter and chocolate in microwave, and let it cool for a while.

2. Mix eggs and sugar until fluffy.

3. Fold in flour into the egg mixture with a spatula. 

4. Then, add in the melted chocolate into the eggs mixture. Mix well. Fold in walnut.

5. Pour batter into a 10x10 baking tray, and  steam for 15 to 30 minutes, or until the toothpick came out clean.

6. Let the brownies cool, and refrigerated for at least two hours before served.