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Walnut Brownies

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WALNUT BROWNIES

This brownie recipe uses dark chocolate and cocoa powder and is made with butter rather than oil.

Walnut Brownies

These brownies only need to be baked for a short time in the oven but time will depend on your oven.

 

INGREDIENTS

  • 120g dark chocolate
  • 120g butter
  • 20g cocoa powder
  • 2 eggs
  • 150g soft brown sugar
  • 70g plain flour
  • 50g chocolate chips
  • 50g walnuts, roughly broken
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

METHOD

  1. Pre-heat the oven to 160ºC fan.
  2. Brush your brownie tin with melted butter and line with greaseproof paper.
  3. In a saucepan, melt the chocolate, butter and cocoa powder and leave to cool.
  4. Whisk together the eggs, sugar and vanilla extract until light and fluffy in a bowl.
  5. Stir the chocolate mix into the bowl with the eggs and sugar and whisk well.
  6. Fold in the flour, walnut pieces and chocolate chips.
  7. Spoon the brownie into the tin and bake for 25 minutes.
  8. The brownies should have a slight wobble wen cooked so put back in the oven for another couple of minutes if they look undercooked.

Coffee and Walnut Cake in the Pressure Cooker

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I’ve recently been experimenting with cooking cakes in the pressure cooker. As we live off-grid, low-wattage electric ovens are only possible on sunny days and with all the rain we’ve been having over the last few days, this hasn’t been an option. So far, the cakes cooked in a pressure cooker have been a success and they come out cooked and moist.

So far, I have cooked an orange cake, brownies and today I wanted to see what would happen when I baked the walnut and coffee cake that I’d previously made in the mini electric oven.

I used a round 7 inch cake tin and lined it with a silicone BBQ liner that I’d cut out specially. This means that you don’t have to grease or butter the tin before making the cake and means you lift it out easily once it’s cooked so that it can cool.

 

COFFEE AND WALNUT CAKE

Coffee and Walnut Cake

CAKE INGREDIENTS

  • 65g walnut halves, chopped
  • 1 tablespoon coffee
  • 100g self-raising flour
  • 1 teaspoons baking powder
  • a pinch salt
  • 115g butter, softened
  • 115g brown sugar
  • 2 medium eggs

TOPPING INGREDIENTS

  • 2 teaspoons instant coffee
  • 100g icing sugar
  • 12 walnut halves

METHOD

  1. Heat a frying pan and gently roast the chopped walnuts and the walnut halves.
  2. Prepare some strong coffee. You will need 1 tablespoon for the cake. You can also use this to substitute for the boiling water and instant coffee for the icing.
  3. Grease and line the cake tin.
  4. Coarsely grind 30g of the chopped walnuts in a food processor.
  5. Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.
  6. Beat in the eggs.
  7. Gently fold in the ground walnuts, chopped walnuts, flour, baking powder and salt.
  8. Pour the mixture into the cake tin.
  9. Put 2 cups of boiling water in the pressure cooker and place a silicone mat on the bottom.
  10. Gently lower in the cake tin.
  11. Bring to pressure and then turn down the heat and cook for 30 minutes.
  12. Turn off the heat and leave for 10 minutes.
  13. Quickly release the pressure.
  14. Remove the tin from the cooker and leave to cool for ten minutes.
  15. Lift out the cake onto a baking rack and leave to cool.
  16. Prepare the topping by mixing 2 tablespoon of boiling water and the icing sugar.
  17. Ice the cake with the topping and decorate with the walnuts halves.

1-tin Coffee and Walnut Cake

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COFFEE AND WALNUT CAKE

Coffee and Walnut Cake

These are the proportions for a smaller cake that is baked in 1 tin in the breadmaker on the BAKE setting.

 

CAKE INGREDIENTS

  • 65g walnut halves, chopped
  • 1 tablespoon coffee
  • 100g self-raising flour
  • 1 teaspoons baking powder
  • a pinch salt
  • 115g butter, softened
  • 115g brown sugar
  • 2 medium eggs

TOPPING INGREDIENTS

  • 2 teaspoons coffee
  • 100g icing sugar
  • 12 walnut halves

METHOD

  1. Heat a frying pan and gently roast the chopped walnuts and the walnut halves.
  2. Prepare some strong coffee. You will need 1 tablespoon for the cake and 2 teaspoons for the icing.
  3. Grease and line the cake tin.
  4. Dissolve the instant coffee in 1 tablespoon boiling water.
  5. Coarsely grind 30g of the chopped walnuts in a food processor.
  6. Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.
  7. Beat in the eggs.
  8. Gently fold in the ground walnuts, chopped walnuts, flour, baking powder and salt.
  9. Pour the mixture into the cake tin.
  10. Bake in the breadmaker for 25-30 minutes on the BAKE cycle until cooked.
  11. When the cake has cooked, leave to cool for 5 minutes.
  12. Turn out the cake.
  13. Prepare the topping by dissolving the instant coffee in 2 tablespoons of boiling water and stirring in the icing sugar.
  14. Ice the cake with the topping and decorate with the walnuts halves.

Coffee and Walnut Cake

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COFFEE AND WALNUT CAKE

Coffee and Walnut Cake

This is another cake that I’ve baked in the breadmaker using the BAKE setting.

 

CAKE INGREDIENTS

  • 125g walnut halves, chopped
  • 2 tablespoons instant coffee
  • 200g self-raising flour
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 225g butter, softened
  • 225g brown sugar
  • 4 medium eggs

TOPPING INGREDIENTS

  • 4 teaspoons instant coffee
  • 200g icing sugar
  • 24 walnut halves

METHOD

  1. Heat a frying pan and gently roast the chopped walnuts and the walnut halves.
  2. Grease and line the cake tin.
  3. Dissolve the instant coffee in 1 tablespoon boiling water.
  4. Coarsely grind 50g of the chopped walnuts in a food processor.
  5. Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.
  6. Beat in the eggs.
  7. Gently fold in the ground walnuts, chopped walnuts, flour, baking powder and salt.
  8. Pour the mixture into the cake tin.
  9. Bake in the breadmaker for 25-30 minutes on the BAKE cycle until cooked.
  10. When the cake has cooked, leave to cool for 5 minutes.
  11. Turn out the cake.
  12. Prepare the topping by dissolving the instant coffee in 2 tablespoons of boiling water and stirring in the icing sugar.
  13. Ice the cake with the topping and decorate with the walnuts halves.