Brownie with White Chocolate Cage
by Tarla Dalal
An eye-catching rich, dark chocolate brownie with vanilla ice cream makes a great party dessert .
Brownie with White Chocolate Cage recipe - How to make Brownie with White Chocolate Cage
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Makes 8 pieces
For The Brownie
1 cup plain flour (maida)
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
2 cups dark chocolate , chopped
1/2 cup butter , softened
1/4 cup castor sugar
1/4 cup curds (dahi) , beaten
1 tsp vanilla essence
1/2 cup walnuts (akhrot) , chopped
Other Ingredients
1 tsp butter for greasing
grease proof paper for lining
For The White Chocolate Cage
3 cups white chocolate , chopped
8 balloons
Method
For the brownie
For the white chocolate cage
How to proceed
For the brownie
- For the brownie
- Grease and line a 150mm. (6”) diameter shallow, microwave safe bowl and keep aside.
- Sift the flour, baking powder and baking soda and keep aside.
- In a microwave safe bowl, add the chocolate pieces and microwave on high for 1 minute. Remove and stir lightly to get a smooth mixture. Keep aside.
- Place the butter and castor sugar in another bowl and stir with a wooden spoon till the mixture is soft and creamy.
- Add the melted chocolate to the butter mixture and mix lightly.
- Add the curds, vanilla essence, flour mixture and walnuts and mix lightly.
- Pour the batter into the greased and lined dish and microwave on high for 3 minutes.
- Reduce the temperature to 70% and microwave for another 1 minute. Remove and keep aside.
- Cut the cake into 8 equal rectangular pieces. Keep aside.
For the white chocolate cage
- For the white chocolate cage
- Blow the balloons to a medium size and tie a knot. Wash the balloons and gently dry them with a kitchen towel. Keep aside.
- Put the chocolate in a microwave safe bowl and microwave on high for 1 minute 30 seconds or till the chocolate is well melted, while stirring once in between after every 30 seconds.
- Fill the plastic disposable piping bag with the melted chocolate and fold the top end of the piping bag to seal it. Snip a bit off the tip to get a tiny hole for the piping to come out.
- Make a criss-cross design on the dome side of one balloon with the melted chocolate from the piping bag. This criss-cross design should only be on half of the balloons as to form a dome shaped cage.
- Place the balloon in a glass with a know side facing down.
- Repeat steps 4 and 5 to make 7 more cages.
- Refrigerate all the balloons for 30 minutes.
- Once set, remove the balloons from the refrigerator and burst each balloon from knot end using a needle.
- Discard the balloon and the cage is ready.
- Keep it refrigerated till ready to be used.
How to proceed
- How to proceed
- Just before serving, place a brownie on a flat plate and cover with cage.
- Serve immediately with vanilla ice-cream.
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the explanation of your receipee is really good but it will be more helpful if it is with step by step photos with the instructions..
Please upload a video on this
well there has to be picture based description.
awesome recipie. But please let us know what would be the measuremenf of 1 cup you are using.