15 Minute Brownies

It's the end of my last semester at university, so my last few weeks have been spent racing between filming locations, the editing suite, classes, work, and my bed. I've been eating an unfortunate amount of fast food, and if it wasn't for a close friend who's been bringing me the leftover sandwiches from his cafe the rest of my diet probably would consist toast and scrambled eggs.

It's safe to say that I haven't had much time to spend in the kitchen baking my heart away! So when a friend linked me this recipe for 15 minute brownies, I knew I would have to try it out. It's taken me about two weeks to get around to it, though, as I haven't had the time to run to the shops to buy chocolate. This morning I got home from the editing suite at 7 in the morning, slept until noon, headed back into finish off editing my movie, finished around 9, and then stopped at the gas station to pick up some chocolate. I knew that my reward to myself would be these fantastic sounding brownies.

Unfortunately, for me it took a bit longer than 15 minutes to make these brownies, as my oven takes about twenty minutes just to heat up. I probably could have whipped up a full batch of brownies up in that time. Still, it meant that I had more time to sit down and catch up on my favorite TV shows while the oven was heating up.

This recipe makes about six medium sized round brownies. Following these instructions the batter didn't really mix together well - the butter didn't absorb into the mixture. I thought that this might have been because there was too much butter in the recipe, but once baked I found the brownies quite dry.

This is great for a quick chocolate fix, but I think that once I have a bit more time I'll experiment with perhaps creaming the butter and sugar together, and then adding melted chocolate and see if that blends the ingredients together more effectively.

I don't have photos to share today, as these were gobbled up by myself and my house mate before I remembered to grab my camera. So I guess I'll just have to make this again!

15 Minute Brownies - from Lobstersquad

65g chopped chocolate

65g butter

1 egg

65 g sugar

40 g flour

Pinch of salt

Preheat oven to 180C/ 356F.

Melt chocolate and butter in the microwave on medium for a minute.

Beat in the egg, sugar, flour and salt.

Bake for six or seven minutes.

Eat!