We have just spent a wonderful weekend crafting away with a lovely group of ladies. Some Scrapped, some made cards, one lady created a beautiful picture in a frame from a paper bag! and a couple of ladies created some awesome wood storage items, and I made a canvas for my little girls room as well as 16 cards :).

On saturday for morning tea we had some home made Chocolate Brownies and orange cake. The brownies were a big hit so I thought I would share my recipe with you.

Ingredients:
1/4 cup plain flour
1/4 cup cocoa
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
125g milk choc buttons
100g nuts (I used cashews – but you can use your favourite, the recipe actually said walnuts…)
180g melted butter
1 1/2 cups caster sugar
4 eggs beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla essence

How to make:
1. Preheat oven to 140 degrees celsius (that is for a fan forced oven – little higher for non fan forced)
2. Lightly grease a slice pan and line the base with baking paper.
3. sieve four, cocoa and baking powder together in a bowl.
4. chop chocolate and nuts roughly (if you are lucky enough to have a thermo mix – 3 seconds on speed 6)
5. Combine melted butter and sugar and whisk well with a fork until smooth. Whisk in eggs until smooth.
6. spread mixture evenly over the base of the prepared pan.
7. bake in preheated  oven for 45minutes or until risen and just firm to touch in the centre. Remove from te oven and cool in a pan for 10 minutes before turning out.

With mine – I had obviously not greased the tin well enough (and yes I forgot to use the baking paper) so it stuck to the bottom. I removed it as well as I could. The bottom didn’t look to nice so I cut the brownie slice in half, and turned them over so  you could see the uneven bottom. I spread a layer of ganache on it them put the other half on it. So the brownie was extra high 🙂 but no messy bottom to be seen as it was hidden in the middle with ganache.

Hope you love them as much as everyone did on the weekend 🙂