Home-made brownies for the family

JAKARTA (JP): Those sweet and crunchy brownies are highly popular although they are a bit expensive and not all bakeries have them on their shelves. Here is a recipe from Doddy Pamudji, a writer of cake recipes.

Brownies

* 250 g margarine * 200 g cooking chocolate * 5 eggs * 250 g sugar * 175 g wheat flour * 200 g cashew nuts, cut into small pieces and roasted until dry * 1/2 tsp baking powder * 1/2 tsp vanilla * 1/3 tsp powder salt.

To make the layering: * 250 g cooking chocolate

For decorative cream: * 2 sp white margarine * 75 g fine sugar * 1/2 sp pasteurized milk

1. Liquify margarine and cooking chocolate in a pan on a small flame. Remove and cool it.

2. Mix eggs and sugar well together. Then pour in the mixture of chocolate and other ingredients. Stir well.

3. Spread margarine on a 18cm by 30cm baking tin and sprinkle flour. Pour the mixture into it and spread evenly. Bake in an oven at medium heat or 160-180 Celsius degrees for 45 minutes. Take the cake out of the tin and let it cool.

4. Meanwhile, apply the cooking chocolate prepared in a pan and pour it evenly on the spongecake's surface.

5. To make decorative cream: Stir the concoction of white margarine, fine sugar and milk until they blend perfectly. Pour it into a paper cone with small hole at the pointed end.

6. Squeeze out the cream in the form of horizontal straight lines at intervals of 1.5 centimeters. Using a tooth pick, draw top- down vertical lines in the cream at an interval of 2cm. You may also draw more lines to beautify your cake.

7. Cut the cake and serve.

Recipe courtesy of Kue Klasik Favorit 2 by Doddy Pamudji published by PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama.