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If you love chocolate….

Posted on | July 4, 2008 | 2 Comments

Hurrah,  the Spicendipity site is open for business. It looks gorgeous and theres a great selection of spice mixes, sauces, baking mixes and gift hampers. In addition, a very helpful recipe section which gives plenty of serving/cooking suggestions and examples and is therefore excellent for people like me who are culinary imagination challenged. All the products looked great. So without delay, I ordered amongst other goodies one of their chocolate brownie mixes.

This is baking made very very easy. Oscar did most of the work. I melted the butter, he stirred the mix into it. Another advantage is that the mix doesn’t contain any artifical preservatives, colouring or additives. A teaspoon of vanilla extract was measured, poured and stirred in. We then cracked in the eggs and he whisked. He greased the baking tray and poured the mixture in. Oisín then appeared for the most important part of the baking experience: the licking of the bowl, whisk and spoon. All faces were covered but the mixture tasted yummy, very chocolately and gooey.

At this stage, due to the fact our oven doesn’t appear to uniformly heat and has hotspots, the brownies got slightly charred around the edges. The middle was still perfect: moist, chocolately and very rich. The next time we’ll take more care and keep a closer eye on the baking stage.

As they were very rich, we cut up the slab of cooked brownies in to small rectangles rather than the larger size shown above. Needless to say, they didn’t last very long in this house with both parents and kids loving them. They were delicious.

I’m looking forward to trying some of the suggested variations out. Maybe adding some chopped nuts or making them as small muffins as Deborah suggests and turning them into an easy to prepare, fun and delicious dessert. Yummy.

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2 Responses to “If you love chocolate….”

  1. Deborah
    July 4th, 2008 @ 11:07 am

    Glad you enjoyed! :)

    My oven tends to do that sometimes too. If I have the fan on it’s a complete pain! If you start checking around 15 minutes maybe… or even turn oven down ten degrees? Who knows? Sometimes I think it depends on the day! :)

  2. Manic Mammy
    July 4th, 2008 @ 11:39 am

    Hey Deborah,
    yup, they were fab. I should’ve known better with our oven so its my own fault. Next time!

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