Red Wine Brownies studded with fresh Strawberries

Red Wine Brownies studded with seasons fresh strawberries. Extremely chocolaty,fudgy and yes they have my favorite wine in it. The best ever chocolate dessert if you are in a mood for some chocolate & wine, a perfect match made in heaven.

It happened last week when I was checking my bar it was then I realized that it was time to restock on wine, went shopping for the same and picked up a few bottles of both red and white wine. On way home I got this urge for brownies and it was then I decided to add some wine to the brownies, I really had no idea how these would taste like and turn up upon baking but I wanted to bake a adult version of the brownies. Wine and chocolate are my weakness and I gave into the temptation, went ahead and baked these best ever brownies. You must have known by now that when it comes to desserts chocolate is the only thing I want.

“Life’s short, drink wine and eat the dessert”

Baking is one thing which I really enjoy but now since I have decided to eat more of healthy food I intend to keep my cakes naked and use less of butter and sugar laden frosting. More and more of healthy baking is what I intend to do, hope I keep up to my promise.

Red Wine BrowniesBrownies are one of my favorite dessert I can have them any time, I just need an excuse to bake these and simply sit back and enjoy. Can you imagine I ate five of these super delicious Red Wine brownies as soon as I finished shooting them, they are so good. VK said that they one gorgeous brownies and I nailed them, wow I am so happy and satisfied.

Now about these brownies they are very chocolaty as I have both dark chocolate and cocoa powder, which the original recipe does not have and made a few changes according to my preference. They are fudge y, boozy, complete bliss is all I can say. Here I have even studded my brownies with fresh strawberries making it a total killer combination. That red wine in every bite make it more and more addictive and I bet you cannot stop at one, even my not so chocolate loving husband could stop at one. I was super convinced with the thought of having wine in the brownies but was not at all sure about the outcome and how they would taste, but as they were baking my kitchen was smelling heaven with the aroma of wine and chocolate. As far as the taste goes if I say they were too delicious would be an understatement. They were indeed the best brownies ever. The recipe has adapted from Country Living and I hope you too enjoy baking and eating them as much as we did.

“Let’s celebrate life with wine and these super gorgeous Red Wine Brownies
studded with strawberries”

Sharing the recipe for super gorgeous Red Wine Brownies studded with strawberries.

Ingredients

· 180 ml red wine (any of your choice)

· 130 grams all purpose flour

· 250 grams granulated sugar

· 75 grams brown sugar

· 170 grams salted butter chopped at room temperature

· 200 grams dark chocolate chopped

· 3 eggs

· 1 tsp pure vanilla extract

· 11 grams unsweetened cocoa powder

· 2 tsp coffee powder dissolved in 1 tbsp boiling water

· 5 strawberries sliced thin for studding

Instructions

· In a large bowl add the chopped dark chocolate and chopped butter, melt them on a double boiler stirring till they melt.
Remove from heat and set aside to cool.

· While the butter chocolate mixture is cooling slice the thoroughly washed and towel dried strawberries.

· Preheat the oven at 170 degrees C. Line a rectangular baking dish with foil or parchment paper. Set aside.

· Now take the cooled chocolate and butter mixture and add both the granulated sugar and brown sugar, whisk well for about 2 -3 minutes. Now add the red wine and give a good whisk. Next add one egg at a time whisking well with each addition till incorporated well. Add the vanilla extract and the coffee, whisk well.

· Now add the all purpose flour and cocoa powder and fold until just combined.

· Pour the mixture into the prepared rectangular baking tray. Place the sliced strawberries in equal distance on top of the brownie batter.

· Place the baking tray on the middle shelf of the oven and bake for about 45 – 50 minutes or until the skewer comes out with only few moist crumbs.

· Remove from the oven and allow to cool in the pan for about 3 – 4 minutes before removing and placing on wire rack to cool completely.

· Once cool slice into squares and enjoy with a glass of wine.

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