Chocolate Brownies

Brownie Variation 1
Chocolate Sourdough

This brownie recipe is another experiment using a sourdough starter as the yeast. Using a sourdough starter does not mean you're going to get sour brownies. I do confess that I prefer my brownies a little stale, so, beyond a very tiny taste I never did get a chance to eat any of this batch, but I'm told they were good.

Ingredients

• ¾ cup butter at room temperature
• 1 cup of sugar
• 1 cup of brown sugar
• 4 eggs
• ½ cup unsweetened cocoa
• 1½ cups flour
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ½ cup sourdough starter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• ¾ cup semisweet chocolate chips
• ½ cup walnuts

Method

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees

Grease a brownie pan and set aside. In a bowl, cream together the butter and sugar with an electric mixer set on medium speed. Add the eggs one at a time, beat well after each addition. Stir the dry ingredients together. Combine the vanilla and starter, then alternating between the vanilla/starter mixture and the flour mixture add them to the butter/sugar mixture. Add the chocolate chips, mix well and spread into the greased brownie pan. Sprinkle nuts and extra chocolate on top and bake in the oven for 30 mins. or until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean.

Enjoy! Written by Deb on December 26, 2002 02:41 AM