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Courgette Brownies
Courgette Brownies
added by timandclaireclark

Lovely easy peasy chocolate brownie recipe I found on the internet (allrecipes.co.uk) which uses up some of our courgette mountain! I didn't add in the wallnuts as my girls are not keen on nuts - but they didn't know they were eating green veg - ha, ha!

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Prep time
  • 15 mins
Cook Time
  • 30 mins
Servings
  • 24 (or will last one mother of three small children on school holiday about 2 hours)
Ingredients
  • 125ml vegetable oil
  • 300g caster sugar
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 250g plain flour
  • 40g best quality cocoa powder
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 250g grated courgette
  • 60g chopped walnuts
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  • Icing
  • 6 tablespoons best quality cocoa powder
  • 4 tablespoons butter or margarine
  • 250g icing sugar
  • 4 tablespoons milk
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
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Directions
Preheat oven to 180 C / Gas 4. Grease and flour a 22x33cm baking tin. In a large bowl, mix together the oil, sugar and 2 teaspoons vanilla until well blended. Combine the flour, 40g cocoa, bicarb and salt; stir into the sugar mixture. Fold in the courgette and walnuts. Spread evenly into the prepared tin. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes in the preheated oven, until brownies spring back when gently touched. To make the icing, melt together the 6 tablespoons of cocoa and butter; set aside to cool. In a medium bowl, blend together the icing sugar, milk and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla. Stir in the cocoa mixture. Spread over cooled brownies before cutting into squares.
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Absolutely delicious recipe and although the mixture did appear a little dry the end result was quite amazing.

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I'm afraid I had problems with this recipe and felt there was an ingredient missing as the mixture was more like bread crumbs than brownie batter! There didn't seem enough moisture from 125ml of oil. :-( I added in two large eggs as an emergency measure and it came out fine.

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delicious way to use up a glut of courgettes

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