Chocolate Chilli Brownies

 

Chocolate brownies with a twist

This recipe was given to me by a colleague of mine when I was working in Sarawak 1 year ago. This used to be her secret weapon whereby she will bake this whenever there's a festival or someone's birthday. I like this cake so much that I used to have a few mouthful of it. It seems someone else gave her that recipe and that someone else might have gotten it from the internet. Anyway, credits to whoever who creates this recipe.
  Kevin is not really a fan of sweet desserts as compared to me. I have sweet tooth and i love creating desserts that looks appetizing and pretty. Kevin suggested to me to add chilli powder to my brownies so I added 2 tablespoons of it. Kev loves it lots! However for me I prefer the original one without chili. I also adjusted the sugar level here and there to suit our taste. For this recipe i used 150 grams of sugar however if you prefer the sweet version of this treat then you can cut down to 100 grams of sugar only and omit the chili. Kev has microwave in his house. So as compared to previously, where I used to double boil my butter and chocolate, now I only have to pop it into his microwave and it would be done by 1 minutes. You can choose to use my way to microwave it or to double boil the butter and chocolate if you don't have a microwave. Here goes!

Chocolate Chilli Brownies

Prep time: 30 minutes

Cooking time: 40 minutes

Serving size: 16 pieces

Difficulty: Easy

Ingredients:

100 grams of self-rising flour

2 tablespoons of chilli powder

150 grams of brown sugar

4 eggs

1 teaspoon of salt

100 grams of almond nibs

30 grams of cocoa powder

400 grams of dark chocolate compound

150 grams of unsalted butter

1. Preheat your oven to 160 degrees Celcius.

2. Melt your chocolate in the microwave for 1 minute.

Dark Chocolate Compound in the form of coins

Melted dark chocolate compound

3. Melt your butter in the microwave for 1 minute. Add salt into the butter after that. 

Butter

Melted butter after putting it into the microwave for 1 minute. Add the salt

4. Add the sugar into the butter and beat. After that add the eggs and beat.

Mix sugar and the butter

Eggs to be added into the mixing bowl

4. Sieve the self rising flour, chilli powder and cocoa powder into a bowl.

Flour and cocoa powder

And not to forget the chilli powder

5. Pour in the dry ingredients in 3 batches.

Mixing all ingredients together except for the almond nibs

6. Add in the almond nibs.

Then we add in the almond nibs

7. Line your mold with parchment paper. If your mold is a non stick then you can skip this step.

8. When it is well mixed, put it into the 9x9 inches square mold.

9. Put it into the oven to cook for 40 minutes.

The awesome cake!

Cutting the cake

Look at the crispy top and the soft spongy centre

Ratings:

Kev ★★★★☆

Bunny C ★★★☆☆