Recipe for
Luxury Chocolate Brownies
Prep Time:
5 -8 minutes
Cook Time:
20 minutes
How about giving your Valentine a deliciously rich homemade baked gift this year?
Ingredients
(Yield: 12 bars or 24 squares)
1 tub
SPAR
Brownie mix (+200 ml
SPAR
milk as per instructions)
Add one of these ingredients
·75 ml coconut + 1 slab peanut brittle, crushed
OR
·75 ml coconut + 49g bar Peppermint Crisp chocolate
OR
·75g tub glace cherries, chopped + 2 Lunch Bar chocolates
OR
·80 g slab white chocolate, chopped + 1 small jar Maraschino cherries, drained, rinsed and patted dry, then chopped
Method
Preheat oven to 180 º C. Coat a medium size 5cm deep baking pan with non-stick baking spray, or line with a sheet of baking paper.
Mix the basic Brownies according to the on-pack instructions.
Gently blend in the additional ingredients and pour the mixture into the prepared baking pan.
Bake for 15 - 20 minutes. Cool in the pan, then cut neatly into 12 equal-size bars.
Transfer onto a rack and pack in layers when completely cooled.
Sieve icing sugar over the top layer and close the box.
Prep Time:
If you bake this more than a day before, rather store in an airtight container until it is appropriate to pack them into the gift box.
There are many attractive gift-boxes available at home décor stores and stationers nowadays which you can line with a sheet of colourful tissue paper or cellophane.