Cooking with Asia

Makes 1 – 8 x 8 inch pan

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup (50 grams) unsweetened cocoa powder

• 1/2 cup (64 grams) all-purpose flour

• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder

• 1/4 teaspoon salt

• 1/2 cup (1 stick or 113 grams) unsalted butter

• 1 cup (200 grams) sugar

• 2 eggs

• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

2. Grease and flour and 8 x 8 inch glass baking dish.

3. In a medium bowl, combine the cocoa, flour, salt, and baking powder; set aside.

4. In a medium saucepan, melt the butter. Once melted, remove from heat and whisk in the sugar until combined.

5. Add the eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition.

6. Stir in the vanilla.

7. Whisk in the dry ingredients until combined and pour the batter into the prepared pan.

8. Bake for 30 – 35 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out with a few crumbs clinging to it.

9. Allow brownies to cool completely before serving.

Recipe by Darla, Bakedom

So I had to make these at home and when I did it made my house smell so good. I was kind of scared because I was sure that they weren't going to be a good recipe but they turned out being really good. they were nice and chewy with a crispy outside and thats the kind of brownie that I like. My mom and sister really enjoyed them too which made me happy. When I was making these it was fun and it was easy. I did really good in preparing everything and I went through all the instructions thoroughly to make sure I did everything right. I don’t necessarily think that I messed up during the recipe but the only thing I could think of that I might have done wrong was not melting the butter enough. I'm not sure if I did because when I put the sugar in it didn’t melt to a fine liquid It was still kind of grainy but I didn’t know if it was meant to be like that or not. The brownies still ended up being really good though. In class I learned on how to put parchment paper into the 8x8 pan correctly. If I wasn’t shown that then I probably wouldn’t have put parchment paper at all I would probably just dump the brownie mix into the pan. I'm going to keep this recipe because I really enjoyed it and someday I think that I'll make them again and when I do I'm going to make sure that do everything right.