Cherry Brandy Brownies

 

While browsing for some good eggless brownie recipes, I bumped into this awesome brownie maker site, which has practically the recipe for every brownie in the world, using every possible ingredient. I loved it so much that I must’ve used it to bake atleast 5 different kinds of brownies, and all of them have been loved, asked for repeatedly and savoured by everyone who’s had one!

This one is just a template ,and you can substitute cherries for any fruit, and brandy for any drink you want. I baked this when we had friends over to watch one of the world cup matches, and they were finished before the match! Yeah, even the humongous amount of butter in this did not deter folks from digging in… :)

So here it is, a slightly modified eggless version of the original recipe.

Ingredients

150 gms butter
1-1/4 cups cocoa powder
2 cups sugar
1/2 tsp salt
2 tbsps brandy
10 tbsps thick cream (or 5 eggs if you don’t want it eggless)
1-2/3 cups AP flour
3/4 cup dried cherries
1/2 cup raspberry jam (I used cherry jam)
A pinch of cinnamon powder (optional)

Instructions

Pre-heat the oven to 185C and butter the aluminium foil pans.
Slightly melt the butter, so that it melts into a liquid, and whisk the cocoa powder in it once it cools a bit. Mix in the sugar and salt to this mixture.
After this mixture cools a bit, whisk in the brandy, cinnamon and the cream.
To this mixture, add the flour, and dried cherries and mix till it just blends.
Now mix the raspberry (or cherry) jam into this mixture, and mix just till it blends.
Pour this batter into the butter foil pan, and bake for ~35 mins. You’ll know that the brownie is done when the inserted toothpick comes out with some crumbs of brownie.
Once they cool, cut and serve the brownies either with ice-cream or just as-is.

And then tell me how they turned out! :)