Today, the weather is grim so the perfect activity for pip I decided was baking. I pulled a nice but easy recipe out ready for us to do then realised, no butter and Mr P ate the last of the eggs yesterday eep!
That put a spanner in the works, the shop is about 10 minutes’ walk away as I don’t drive but I decided to not chance it with the kiddies and wait for a break in the weather. In the meantime I realised I had also run out of biccies and was desperate for some choccy, I leafed through my recipe book in desperation and found this recipe that doesn’t need eggs and you can also use cocoa powder as I only had a small amount of chocolate drops left.
It comes out cakeier than the gooey deliciousness I’m used to but I topped it with mini marshmallows which replace the gooiness.
- 170g/6oz self-raising flour
- salt
- 2 tbsp cocoa powder
- 170g/6oz caster sugar
- 5 tbsp sunflower oil, plus extra for greasing
- 230ml/8fl oz milk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Preparation
- Pre-heat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4.
- Grease and flour a 20cm/8in square cake tin with some of the sunflower oil.
- In a bowl sift together the flour and cocoa powder
- Add the sugar and salt and stir together.
- Add the oil, milk and vanilla extract, and mix together until combined.
- Pour into the tin, and bake for about 25 minutes, until the brownies spring back when gently pressed.
- Leave to cool for five minutes, and then turn out onto a wire rack.
We may still attempt to pop to the shop after pips nap otherwise we will have an afternoon of eating brownies and warm milk watching a good old Disney film.
We thought we had timed it right until the last 5 minutes the heavens opened, jellybean was nicely snug and sheltered in my coat, alright for some.
