Dark Chocolate Brownie

Brownie Cake

Did you ever heard of Brownie Cake??
Did you ever wonder where is brownie come from?
Do you need delicious chocolate brownie recipe??
So First let go to our Brownie lesson..

What is Brownie??

A chocolate brownie is a square, baked, chocolate cake. Brownies come in a variety of forms and may be either fudgy or cakey, depending on their density. They may include nuts, frosting, cream cheese, chocolate chips, or other ingredients. A variation made with vanilla rather than chocolate in the batter is called a blonde brownie or blondie. The brownie was developed in the United States at the end of the 19th century and popularized in the U.S. and Canada during the first half of the 20th century.

Brownies are a form of sheet cookie. Brownies are typically eaten by hand, often accompanied by milk, served warm with ice cream (a la mode), topped with whipped cream, or sprinkled with powdered sugar and fudge.

History 

Betha Palmer

One legend about the creation of brownies is that of Bertha Palmer, a prominent Chicago socialite whose husband owned the Palmer House Hotel. In 1893 Palmer asked a pastry chef for a dessert suitable for ladies attending the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition. She requested a cake-like confection smaller than a piece of cake that could be included in boxed lunches.The result was the Palmer House Brownie with walnuts and an apricot glaze. The modern Palmer House Hotel serves a dessert to patrons made from the same recipe.The name was given to the dessert sometime after 1893, but was not used by cook books or journals at the time.

By 1907 the brownie was well established in a recognizable form, appearing in Lowney's Cook Book by Maria Willet Howard (published by Walter M. Lowney Company, Boston) as an adaptation of the Boston Cooking School recipe for a "Bangor Brownie". It added an extra egg and an additional square of chocolate, creating a richer, fudgier dessert.

Main Ingredients

Main ingredients for brownie cake normally make from creamy butter with sugar. dark melted chocolate, flour, eggs, cocoa powder, nuts. walnut or cashew nut go really well for traditional chocolate brownie cake.

So after brownie lesson i'm going to share my traditional delicious brownie recipe with you guy.
But first here are the list of equibments

Equipments

• Stand machine or Hand machine
• Oven
• Bowl
• Strainer
• Deep baking tray
• Baking paper
• Chopping board
• Chopping knife
• Spatula
• Weighing Scale

Ingredients

• Butter                            1280gr
• Sugar                            1000gr
• Eggs                              16psc
• Flour                              480gr
• Cocoa powder                60gr
• Baking powder              10gr
• Dark chocolate               480gr
• Cashew nut or walnut    700gr (or less for your like)

Method

• Preparation 

1. Pre-heated oven to 170C 
2. Spray cooking oil to deep baking tray and put baking paper.
3. Strain flour, cocoa powder,baking powder in bowl and set aside.
4. Roast cashew nut or walnut in the oven till they become golden brown.
5. Melt dark chocolate in bain-marie method.

• How to make
• Brownie cake can make in two different ways. 
• Method 1

1. Beat butter with sugar in the stand machine till it become creamy and white.
2. After the butter become creamy add eggs one by one and keep beating till they well combined.
3. Add strained flour to the mixture, beat in low speed.
4. Than add melted dark chocolate and mix till they well combine.
5. Add roasted cashew nut to the mixture. 
6. Put your brownie mixture to the baking tray.
7. Put your brownie mixture to the pre-heated oven  for 35-40minutes.

• Methond 2
• Preparation 

1. Pre-heated oven to 170C 
2. Spray cooking oil to deep baking tray and put baking paper.
3. Strain flour, cocoa powder,baking powder in bowl and set aside.
4. Roast cashew nut or walnut in the oven till they become golden brown.
5. Melt dark chocolate in bain-marie method.
6. Melted butter

• How to make (without machine method)

1. Beat Eggs with sugar. 
2. Add melted dark chocolate.
3. Add strained flour. 
4. Add melted butter.
5. Add cashew nut.
6. Put the brownie mixture to the deep baking tray.
7. Put your brownie mixture to the pre-heated oven  for 35-40minutes.

I recommend using method 1.. 

Served

served warm with ice cream, topped with whipped cream, or sprinkled with powdered sugar and fudge. or just served them alone by themself. somehow brownie go well with milk.