The last Monday of the month is the much awaited Reveal Day for Group D of The Secret Recipe Club! For those who don’t know about it, The Secret Recipe is an event in which food bloggers from the same group are paired (in secret), and have about 3 weeks to choose a recipe from their assigned blog, cook it, and compose a blog. Everyone publishes their post on reveal day at the exact same time. How cool is that? If you want to become a member (beware, there is a waiting list), visit the site and get in touch with Amanda, the founder of this fun group.
For my sixth participation at the SRC I was paired with “The More than Occasional Baker”, a virtual spot hosted by a very accomplished baker from London. She defines herself as a “baking addict”, and as I browsed through her blog, it was clear she was not kidding! What is a poor cake-o-phobe blogger to do when faced with such a Herculean task? Knowing my limitations, I searched for something that wouldn’t involve creaming butter with sugar, preparing an Italian meringue, or handling icing bags. Suddenly, three beautiful words comforted my soul: triple chocolate brownies. Anything with triple chocolate makes me go weak in the knees, and I am quite fond of brownies because for the most part they are fuss-free. Plus, once I read her post about the recipe, I wanted to stop everything and go buy the three kinds of chocolate (and a little extra of the white, just because… 😉 )
TRIPLE CHOCOLATE BROWNIES
(from The More than Occasional Baker)
200g bittersweet chocolate (1 cup)
50g milk chocolate (1/4 cup)
225g butter (1 cup or 2 sticks)
4 eggs
325g unrefined golden caster sugar (I used light brown sugar) (1 + 1/2 cups)
0.5 tbsp vanilla essence
200g white chocolate (1 cup)
150g plain flour, sifted (1 + 1/2 cup)
pinch of salt
to print the recipe, click here
Comments: If you are not too fond of white chocolate, MAKE THESE BROWNIES ANYWAY. They are amazing! We took them to the lab to celebrate one of our students passing his qualifying exam, and they disappeared in a few minutes! The crumbs left on the serving plate were fought over with considerable enthusiasm by two members of our group, normally quite well-mannered.
They are fudgy, dense, moist, sweet, decadent, with a nice crunchy surface that provides a perfect contrast with the creamy center. The white chocolate, kept in chunks, is a superb touch, don’t skip it. I didn’t add nuts (macadamia would be the number 1 choice), because one of our students is allergic to them.
I couldn’t be happier with this month’s adventure! Stop by “The More than Occasional Baker” to see all the goodies she makes on a regular basis. Maybe I should become a more regular baker myself 😉
Check out all other posts from bloggers in my group, by clicking on the blue frog at the very end of this post…
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oh these look amazing!!! Great SRC post ❤
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thank you! I wish I had one of these babies right now in front of me….
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omigod Sally. Thank goodness I’m too lazy to convert the measurements. Hahahahahahaha!
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I was too lazy to convert them myself, maybe I’ll do it if you twist my arm a little… 😉
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YUM! I love brownies and I LOVE White Chocolate…gasp, almost even more that regular chocolate.
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Same here, I know it’s not “real” chocolate, and most choc lovers twist their noses, but I LOVE white chocolate!
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You are a baker, Sally. You just bake delicious bread, which trumps brownies in my kitchen, at least at the moment — I’ve been making too many sweet things lately.
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You know, for some reason I don’t consider bread baking the same as “baking” – go figure. Cakes fascinate me in a strange way, as I am absolutely scared of them.
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I’m so glad you picked this recipe as it’s one of my favourites. It will definitely earn you brownie points 🙂 Your brownies turned out beautifully, I think you are under-selling yourself – you are an amazing baker!
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These brownies were spectacular! I am very glad I picked that recipe, although I had the “pistachio madeleines” on my list – I had trouble finding pistachios unsalted, and decided to go with the brownies….
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What a fun event.. I’ll have to check out your partner.. these are the perfect brownies.. I can tell just by the crackle and shine on top!!
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That crackled part on top, if I was not the classy person I am, I would peel off and munch on, standing up next to the kitchen island, no need for a plate or a fork. That’s for sissies. I would go for the kill.
but, I am very classy, as you may have noticed… 😉
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I’m visiting from Group D, and love what you did this month! Beautiful (AND delicious, I’m sure)! Triple chocolate? I’m there.
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Yeah, triple chocolate. What else anyone needs? It’s heaven.
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Lordy, lordy look at those. I wish I were looking at a real plate of the. Ha, thanks for the recipe.
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Glad you enjoyed the post, Greg!
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Absolutely decadent! Great job and pick for SRC!
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A little decadence is good for the soul…
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I made brownies this week too (and you know how I feel about chocolate). 😉 These look really darn decadent though and I think would probably top the ones I threw together. I’ll have to run these by Mr. N too. He’s trying to pick his birthday treat for next month. 🙂
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His Bday already? Well, I look forward to what you’ll come up for him, I’m sure it will be delicious!
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You have a great blog and I wish I can overcome my fear of bread baking soon! Thanks for your lovely comment on my blog.
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Bread baking is intimidating, but so much fun! THere’s nothing I like better than baking bread. It’s a good thing I have a full time job, so bread baking is reserved for the weekend. Otherwise, I would have to go back to long distance running!
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Oooh these sound delicious Sally.
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They were too good, Barbara! Too good!
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I love a good brownie recipe. and I LOVE white chocolate. These sound pretty much ideal in every way!
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I like them the way they were. “Some people” insist that brownies should always have a few nuts inside, but… that’s debatable. White chocolate chunks win the competition for me.
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These triple chocolate brownies are a home run!
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Perfect way to describe them…
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Triple chocolate brownies are my weakness too. These have me longing for one!!!
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The older I get, the more I appreciate chocolate. Therefore, I am the living proof that chocolate = wisdom
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oh wow, these sound amazing! i’ll take two with a glass of milk, please. =)
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Yes, madam… your wish is my command!
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baking scares the crap outta me. sometimes it works out, sometimes not so much. i’ve gotten pretty good at creaming butter though 😉
happy src reveal!
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Well, if you got the creaming butter down, you are way ahead of me! Give me a sourdough bread to make ANY DAY!
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Chocolate brownies are enough to make me swoon…but TRIPLE chocolate brownies?? Your description and pictures are enough to make me go ga-ga! Definitely on my to-do-list! 🙂
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You won’t regret making them, I promise….
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These look delicious. They would quickly disappear from my table. I hope you have a great evening. Blessings…Mary
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One of the advantages of working in a lab full with grad and undergrad students: they help me clean the plate, and I don’t feel so guilty 😉
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OMG ! Three different chocolates in one brownie. I am in chocolate heaven. Delicious!
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Chocolate heaven! the best type of heaven…
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As far as this fellow chocoholic is concerned, you can never have too much chocolate. Quadruple chocolate, anyone? 🙂
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I thought of adding some cocoa nibs to them, can you imagine that?????
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goodness gracious this looks incredible! Rich and mouthwatering
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They were fabulous, I already miss them…
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You know I could never pass up a chocolate recipe Sally… but triple chocolate?!! WOW les amies. I especially like the looks of the crackled surface in your last photo – I know all about that crispy, chewy texture… salivating! :).
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That surface got me too… addictive!
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I just found Bewitching Kitchen by serendipitous default while searching for another recipe; I’m thrilled to be here. Amazing site and recipes.
Help … can anyone help convert this Triple Chocolate Brownies recipe. I’ve been to several ‘conversion’ sites and come up with totally different measurements according to each. I want to make these brownies but don’t want to make a mistake in measurements with this one, especially with the price of gourmet chocolate. Sorry to be so metric challenged!
Pretty please!
Thanks.
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Hello there! well, I will do the conversion for you using my most trusted sites, and hope to get a version up in the blog sometime this weekend, ok?
stay tuned!
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Sally – Thank you, thank you, thank you. I will patiently await your post.
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There you go…. edited the PDF too, so you can download if you want
If you ever find a recipe in the internet that uses metric, this site is very good, as it takes in account which food item you are trying to convert. As I just edited the post today, I won’t be able to test it with the amounts in volume, but I hope they are accurate enough!
http://www.convert-me.com/en/convert/cooking
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Hi Sally~
I appreciate you posting the conversion equivalents and referral site.
Thanks to you, my very lengthy ‘to do’ list has just been updated and reordered . . . triple chocolate brownies, post-haste!
You’re the best!
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Glad you saw it, I considered dropping you an email, but thought it would be too intrusive – not sure what’s the proper etiquette, as WordPress does disclose the email to the host of the site. Anyway, glad you came back for it, and I didn’t have to debate with myself what to do 😉
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Nice recipe. I love a simple brownie recipe which is easy for the kids 🙂
I also like the below brownie recipe.
http://www.wascene.com/food-drink/perfect-chocolate-brownie-recipe/
Thanks for sharing,
Jane
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oh my goodness, I seriously can NOT stop drooling over the pictures of these brownies. They look OUTSTANDING!!
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