Microwave brownies!

[Siana Blackwood]

1 egg
1/2 cup sugar
Pinch salt
1/4 cup butter
1/3 cup flour
1/4 cup cocoa


1. Melt the butter in a microwave-safe bowl.

2. Mix in all the other ingredients.

3. Microwave on high for 1.5 to 3 minutes. Do not let the center get totally dry or it will be overcooked. Take it out when there is still a small moist spot in the center. It finishes cooking as it cools.

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I haven't tested this yet, but I'm pretty sure you should be able to cook it in a microwave-safe noodle/rice bowl. I'll update this post if it turns out the recipe doesn't work or needs adjustment.

UPDATE: Now I've tried them and they taste awesome, but should be approached with caution. Next time I might add less sugar.

DO NOT DO ANY OF THESE THINGS:

1. pick up the very hot bowl with your bare hands
2. take a flying guess about how much butter to use
3. panic and ridiculously overcook it because you didn't believe in that 'it finishes cooking as it cools down' thing. 3 minutes really is about right provided you wait until it's cool enough to start eating before eating it.

4. Eat a significant proportion of the mixture before cooking. Kidding - go ahead with that part .

UPDATE 2: Also, they really do taste better if you remember the salt.

[SaronaNalia]

Sounds yummy! I'd try it out, but I don't have a microwave.

[Siana Blackwood]

You can probably do it in an oven just as easily. The cooking time would be longer (no idea what), but you could make them in a muffin pan or those little individual dishes that you make souffle in.

Or just make a big batch and spread it out on a tray. (Yum)

[Silvia Grace]

I am definitely trying this! ;D

[Siana Blackwood]

Just adding a variant to the recipe.

1 egg
3/4 cup soft icing mixture
Pinch salt
1/4 cup butter
1 tablespoon flour
1/4 cup cocoa
Somewhere between 1/2 and 1 cup of rolled oats

This recipe comes out soft, fudgy and awesome. The amount of oats is to taste, but 1/2 a cup seems to be the minimum or else it just ends up a buttery mess. You could probably add more flour instead of the oats, but I like oat brownies.

Since I don't know what it's called everywhere around the world, 'soft icing mixture' is a dry powder that's icing sugar and starch combined.

By the way, the salt is absolutely necessary. No oat-containing product tastes any good without salt.

Cooking instructions are the same as listed in the original post.

[Agent Double Oh Zero]

Oooooh, I have GOT to try this!

[Pie]

I've always seen this recipe "baked" in a coffee mug. I suppose the bowl is safer though, since the brownies rise up and fall out of the mug if you're not careful.

I'll have to try this as well some time, when I'm not busy making obsessively fancy cakes and need a quick chocolate fix.

[Siana Blackwood]

I just went looking for the original again and found this:

pinterest.com/cysocki/microwave-cakes/

*dies*

[Agent Double Oh Zero]

*jaw drop*

whoooooooa.

/dies/

[Amy P. Reed]

Jul 16, 2012 18:19:07 GMT -5 Siana Blackwood said:

I just went looking for the original again and found this:

pinterest.com/cysocki/microwave-cakes/

*dies*

Bookmarked! So what if I don't cook. Microwave I can do. LOL