Peanut Butter Brownies

In the middle of winter, when it's cold, dark and boring. If I'm not warm by wrapping myself with blanket while watching six packs of Jensen Ackles in "Supernatural", I'll be in the kitchen and baking something to keep me warm.

Brownies is the first choice of mine, quick and easy. My husband loves peanut butter and walnut brownies, I think it's a good match, with a little bit of salty peanut butter, bitter sweet of dark chocolate brownie.....for me...it's perfect!!!!

Ingredients

200 g. dark chocolate 

200 g. unsalted butter

1 cup plain flour

1 1/4 cups sugar

4 eggs

2 tsp vanilla paste

4-5 tbs peanut butter

1/4 cup chopped walnut (smooth or crunchy)

Directions

Melt butter and chocolate together in microwave for 45 sec for the first time then stir to combine if still lumpy, put in microwave again for 10 sec each time, set aside.

In the mix bowl, whisk sugar and eggs together until light and fluffy, add chocolate and butter mixture, stir to combine and then add flour and chopped walnut, mix well.

Pour the mixture in to the baking tray, drop spoon fulls of peanut butter in then use the tip of the knife to drag all over the brownie to swirl peanut butter and chocolate brownie.

Bake for 30 mins maybe shorter or longer depend on the thickness of the brownie. Allow to cool before cut.

Chewy, moist, crunchy, salty, bitter sweet brownies, what else you want....

Enjoy

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Orange-Cointreau Cheese Cake (No Bake)

Cheese Cake is one of my hubby's favorite dessert of all time, He prefer no bake cheese cake with the fresh fruit on top like his beloved mum made for hime when he was young.

My cheese cake today, I added Cointreau into the jelly, I adore the sensation of Cointreau, such a fresh tangy and sweet, at home I usually have fruit on the dinner table, every time I want to make some sweet I have to look in the fruit basket before decided what I'm gonna make. Like today, I have some orange and some golden kiwi at home, lemon from the back yard, in my kitchen cabinet also have orange cordial, voila!!! it's perfect to make orange jelly cheese cake.

Ingredients

For the crust

Crackers

Butter

Cheese cake

225g. solften cream cheese

250g. cream

Lemon juice from1 lemon

orange zest from1 orange

1 1/2 tbs gelatin

200g. condensed milk

Orange-Cointreau Jelly

1 cup orange cordial (or orange juice)

2 tbs gelatin

2 tbs Cointreau 

Directions

Grease a springform pan. Using a food processor, process biscuits until fine crumbs then gradually add melted butter and mix to combine. The crust will look like wet sand. Press the biscuit mixture over base and side of prepared pan. Refrigerate for 10 minutes.

To make cheese cake, sprinkle gelatine powder over 5 tbs of water, set the gelatin aside for a few minutes until it swells or “blooms” as it absorbs the liquid, melt the gelatin in a microwave (for about 10 seconds on high) until it becomes translucent, stir until totally dissolved. Set aside to cool.

 Meanwhile using an electric mixer, beat cream cheese until light and fluffy, ass condensed milk  then add orange zest and lemon juice, gradually beat in gelatine mixture until combined. Set aside.

In another bowl whip cream until stiff peaks then slowly add gelatin, wisk to combine.

 Fold in cream cheese mixture then pour mixture into prepared pan. 

Refrigerate at least 3 hours or until it set.

To make jelly topping

In a sauce pan. Sprinkle gelatin powder in to orange cordial, wait until gelatin is blooms, then put on the stove on a low heat, stir well until gelatin dissolves, remove from the heat, add Cointreau and set aside to cool.

Pour orange-jelly on the cool cheese cake, return to refrigerater for an hour, put mandarin, orange, kiwi or any fruit you like, brush with the remaining jelly, if the jelly has gone lumpy, reheat on low heat before use.

Return to refrigerate.

I adore this one so much, I sliced kiwi fruit and placed on top into a flower shape, brush with jelly then return to refrigerate for another hour or until it set. I gave this special one for my hubby's dad.

Enjoy...

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Orange & Walnut Brownies

I do love brownie, I love crunchy moist and gooey brownie, have it with cold milk or with a cuppa.

Today I have oranges at home and I think I want to add some freshness in to my brownies and add the crunchyness with walnut. 

Ingredients

1 cup plain flour

200 g. dark chocolate

200 g. butter

1 1/4 cups granulated sugar

4 eggs

2 tsp vanilla paste

orange zest from 2 oranges

1/4 cup chopped walnut

2 tbs Cointreau 

Preheat oven to 175C.

Melt butter and chocolate together in microwave for 45 sec for the first time then stir to combine if still lumpy, put in microwave again for 10 sec each time, add orange zest and Cointreau, set aside.

In the mix bowl, whisk sugar and eggs together until light and fluffy, add chocolate and butter mixture, stir to combine and then add flour and chopped walnut, mix well.

Bake for 30 mins maybe shorter or longer depend on the thickness of the brownie.

Allow brownies to cool before cutting.

Ummmmmmm Heavenly

Enjoy xxx

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