Would you laugh at me or think me a little nuts if I said that until recently I still had a stash of Easter eggs? It’s not a lie. You see I received my usual haul of eggs this year but as I was breastfeeding and Ollie doesn’t like chocolate (that better change – can’t have a son who doesn’t like chocolate), I couldn’t eat them.
I cut this recipe out months ago with the intention of baking up one mega chocolate feast when I could eat chocolate again and my goodness was it worth the wait.
I smashed up all my Easter eggs and used a rich dark chocolate to melt and added some pecans for a little something special because if you’re going to go all out you need nuts right? That’s how triple chocolate brownies with pecans came to be. A couple of weeks ago, we had a BBQ with the dads in mother’s group so that everyone could meet and I was assigned to bring a dairy-free dessert.
I failed miserably. On Friday (the bbq was Sunday) I had a bit of a mini-meltdown/stress attack about the amount of things I had to do and how behind I was with work and that I had nothing to wear to the ridiculous number of events I have in August (first world problems I know) and had it stuck in my head that I wanted to make a dairy free carrot cake with a creamy icing. It just got way too hard for me and when things get hard…. brownies. Brownies are the answer.
The 100% correct, delicious, rich, sweet answer. Enjoy!
What about you? What’s your go-to recipe for a sweet treat?
Triple chocolate brownies with pecans
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Claire, love reading the blog – but I have a question – I have some couverture chocolate, that I bought at Woolies, a few months ago, and I’m trying to find out what I can use it for – I know that I can make chocolates with it – but can I bake with it – i.e. can I make these brownies with that chocolate..
Thanks Yasmin! You sure can. You can use it in any recipe that calls for dark chocolate. I would highly recommend my best ever chocolate mudcake!
Mine is a quick chocolate fondant and if nobody turns up I can eat them all. :) I love the Easter egg idea.
Oh I love your quick chocolate fondant! One of my favourite desserts and so easy!
Hehe if it helps I didn’t like chocolate when I was little and I love the stuff now! :P
I’m going to pretend you didn’t say that Lorraine… didn’t like chocolate! You certainly make up for it now!
Just in time for me to make some brownies today too! I have some macadamia nuts I need to open and use. Been wanting chocolate brownies for a while now. Hope you got all your work bits in order.
Yum yum! Macadamia and chocolate is a fantastic combo!
GF brownies! Excellent. I think we all have days in the kitchen we’d rather forget but we need to have those so we learn ‘what went wrong’! Your brownies look amazing and I love the combination of chocolates – perfect xx
Very true Charlie! x
Yum! I do love triple choc brownies. Extra white chocolate for me!
Haha I actually thought of you when I made them! x
These look fantastic and sound much better than what you had in mind Claire. Good choice. You don’t have to make any excuse for these delicious looking brownies, yum!
Haha well yes Chris you’re probably right. Who knows what would have happened with my dairy free creation.