Cooking with Mama :)

Buongiorno!

So as both my Mama and myself have the baking bug, we decided to learn and bake together! This was our first baking day and we decided on making 2 cakes, both taken from the BBC good food website. We made Super chocolatey brownies and Dorset apple cake.

Both turned out truly amazing. Although a word of caution about the brownies: 1.) They are practically 1 million percent chocolate 2.) Once you have had 1, you will ALWAYS want more.

We will start, as we did, with the Super chocolatey brownies!

Ingredients.
+ 185g unsalted butter
+ 185g best dark chocolate
+ 85g plain flour
+ 40g cocoa powder
+ 50g white chocolate
+ 50g milk chocolate
+ 3 large eggs
+ 275g golden caster sugar


This recipe does get super involved but the end result is entirely worth it. I am also proud to say that we didn't stray (much) from the recipe on this one!

I have included the links to both cakes and where to find them on the good food website but I shall include the method and some pictures here so you guys know exactly what these steps should look like. :)

+ So first you gotta chop the 185g of chocolate and the butter into cubes and melt them together like so:

Also I know there's a lot of white choc there too, we didn't have enough dark so we improvised.

+ While that chocolatey goodness is cooling, sieve out the flour and the cocoa into a bowl:

+ You then have to chop up the rest of the chocolate into squares and put that to 1 side. Then you have to put the eggs and the caster sugar in a bowl and blend it super hard until you get this light frothy egg mousse thing. Just follow Orlando Murrans original recipe in the link, he is very descriptive. 

+ You then fold the cooled chocolate into the egg mousse shizzle, and fold it all together. Then sieve the floury cocoa over that and fold that up too. Put it in a baking tin and bake it on 180 (normal) for 25 minutes until the middle bit doesn't jiggle when you take it out and wibble it. That's right I said wibble it, you take it out when it looks done and shake it like a polaroid picture capiche?

Once it stops shaking its wibbly sections, let it cool and then you'll have one hell of a batch of brownies <3

NEXT:

The Dorset Apple cake by Lesley Waters
Taken from the BBC Good food website.

+ 450g cooking apples (such as Bramley)
+ juice of ½ lemon
+ 225g butter , softened
+ 280g golden caster sugar
+ 4 eggs
+ 2 tsp vanilla extract
+ 350g self-raising flour
+ 2 tsp baking powder
+ demerara sugar to sprinkle
This cake was MUCH simpler than the brownies and was ready a lot quicker.

+ First of all, chop up all the apples into slices and squeeze the lemon juice over the top of that. Pop it to 1 side.

+ Mama demonstrating le skills ;D

+ Get all the other ingredients, and blend em.
+ Smooth 1 layer out in the baking tin.
+ Line with half the apples and then pour the rest of the mixture over it.
+ Sprinkle demerara sugar over the lot of it.
+ Bake it at 160 (normal) for 45 mins.

Enjoy ;D

xxxxxxx