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Emergency Brownies
Author Nigella Lawson is baking some decadent brownies with real chocolate chips.
Emergency Brownies
Course:
Dessert
Cuisine:
American
Yield:
2-4 servings
INGREDIENTS:
  • Unsalted butter – 3 tablespoons, soft
  • Light brown sugar – ¼ cup
  • Maple or light corn syrup – 1 tablespoon
  • All-purpose flour – 3 tablespoons
  • Unsweetened cocoa powder – 3 tablespoons
  • Sea salt flakes – ¼ teaspoon or ⅛ teaspoon fine sea salt
  • Egg – 1 large, at room temperature
  • Vanilla extract – 1 teaspoon
  • Walnut pieces – ½ cup
  • Chocolate chips – ¼ cup, dark or milk, as wished
  • 1 x approx. 7 x 4 x 2 inches aluminum foil pan

This is for those times you urgently need a brownie, but don’t want to make – or, rather, can’t justify making – a whole batch. This recipe makes two (four if needs be) fudgy brownies to be snaffled straight from the pan. And they can be turned into glorious sundaes: squished into glasses with ice cream, pour a little maple syrup over, and sprinkle with chopped walnuts. It is worth keeping takeout aluminum foil pans in the house just to make these. Take my word for it, it will be a frequent occurrence.

DIRECTIONS:

  1. Preheat the oven to 325°F. Put the butter, sugar, and maple or light corn syrup into a small heavy-based saucepan and gently warm, stirring once or twice, until the butter’s melted and the sugar has dissolved. Remove the pan from the heat.
  2. Fork together the flour, cocoa, and salt to mix, then beat into the butter and sugar pan with a wooden spoon or spatula until smoothly combined.
  3. Whisk the egg with the vanilla – just casually, by hand – then stir into the pan, giving a final little whisk, if needed, to make sure everything’s mixed together thoroughly, before folding in the nuts and chocolate chips. Pour and scrape this nubbly brownie batter into an aluminum foil pan measuring approx. 7 x 4 x 2 inches. Bake in the oven for 15–20 minutes until it is beginning to come away at the sides and the top has dried a little just around the edges.
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