Brownie weather
It’s raining. Both kids are sick – too sick for walks in the rain and birthday parties so instead it’s brownie and moomin mug weather.
Easy Brownies
150g (5 oz) softened butter
1 cup caster sugar
3/4 cup cocoa
2 eggs
1 cup of self-raising flour
I have also made these for vegans twice by using egg replacer and margarine and they worked a treat.
Preheat the oven to 180°c (350°f). Beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add cocoa, eggs and flour and mix until nicely combined. Spoon the mixture into a muffin tin and bake for 10-12 minutes or until cooked but gooey in the centre. Tip out of the tin (very gently! Some of mine flattened on impact) and devour warm.
If you are like me you will, at some stage during this recipe, create an enormous cloud of cocoa powder which covers your perfectly clean tshirt, jeans, shoes and floor in a lovely layer of brown. Amuses children endlessly.
Responses
17th May 2008 at 1:26 pm
Caster sugar I think is also known as “superfine sugar”? I think?
17th May 2008 at 5:40 pm
that brownie looks yummy…
It’s raining here as well, and you’re right: perfect moomin mug weather. I might go for a walk in the rain and while i’m at it, get the ingredients for those brownies =)
17th May 2008 at 7:08 pm
Ack. We are in the same boat today – the big one still recovering and the littlest in the thick of icky winter ilnesses. Your brownies look delicious, I’m sure they will fend off the cabin fever brilliantly. Hope you’re all better soon. xo
17th May 2008 at 8:22 pm
It is fantastic weather for cooking and staying in 
Love that cake tin you’ve used, looks almost like a little kugelhopf!
17th May 2008 at 8:56 pm
The muffin looks very tasty – I was going over the contents of the pantry to see if I could start straightaway, and then it sunk in. I’m in the Netherlands, and my parents’ house has a severe shortage of brownie tins. Oh well. Someday!
Hope the little ones get better soon – surely a moomin mug must help.
17th May 2008 at 10:12 pm
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17th May 2008 at 11:17 pm
i am making these today. 
hope the little bunnies feel better soon.
18th May 2008 at 9:37 am
yes! brownies are delicious any time and these look wonderful. love that moomin mug, too.
18th May 2008 at 10:03 am
Hope you all feel much better soon. Two books I’ve just discovered ‘what mothers do: especially when it looks like nothing’ by Naomi Stadlen and ‘Maternal Desire: on children, love and the inner life’ by Daphne de Marneffe are amazingly brilliant.I think you’d love them. Keep snug.
18th May 2008 at 4:35 pm
Looks like a great recipe – will have to try it out soon. Hope mine turn out as nice as the one in the pic!
18th May 2008 at 7:06 pm
Looks cute and yum! Should try this recipe too, but first need to get my oven fixed.. sigh…
19th May 2008 at 4:43 am
That has to be THE cutest brownie… and doesn’t your drink ALWAYS taste better from a moomin cup?? get well soon to the girls…
19th May 2008 at 5:08 am
I hope the kids are better. This day with brownie and rain it’s perfect for me. Thanks for the recipe.
27th May 2008 at 10:28 am
Just made these this afternoon and had the same cocoa cloud thing happen to me… forewarned, apparently, is not forearmed.
So glad you’re back!
30th May 2008 at 8:23 am
Hi, I just wanted to thank you for the recipe, I have made them twice and they were a huge hit in this house. The second time, they were a little dry (I think, cos the eggs were small), but my American sister in law suggested adding a splash of veg oil – worked a charm – a chewy gooey miracle. yum
17th May 2008 at 1:24 pm
and the vegans of the world thank you muchly. pleasetobeesplainin caster sugar?