Easy Chocolate Nut Brownies for Kids

Chocolate nut brownies is a simple easy desserts adapted from The Williamsburg Cookbook and consists of a few handful ingredients including butter, unsweetened chocolate, eggs, sugar, vanilla extract, flour, baking powder, and pecans.

Light, fluffy and crunchy chocolate nut brownies are a pleasurable easy dessert recipes for any day or occasion. It's easy to whip up and takes only a few minutes to bake. It's the perfect healthy recipes  for novice bakers and is simple enough for children to bake. For superior results, use high quality chocolate and butter. Poor quality chocolate will make poor tasting brownies.

You don't need electric mixers or beaters when mixing the brownie batter. In fact, it is better to mix the batter by hand using a spoon or spatula. Over mixing the batter will result in dry and tough brownies that forms a thin crust on the top when baked. Mix the dry and the wet ingredients separately and blend them together just until all the dry ingredients are moist. Sift the flour to get the precise amount you need, no more and no less. When placing the batter in the pan, spread it evenly so that the brownies bake evenly with a uniform thickness and texture throughout.

Use glass or a shiny metal pan for baking the brownies. Dark nonstick pans cause the brownies to become soggy and decrease in volume. Grease the pan before making the batter and lightly dust it with cocoa powder to make it easier to pop the brownies out of the pan after slicing them into squares or rectangles. To allow your brownies rise, grease only the bottom of the pan. While baking, the brownies will slightly shrink from the pan. The brownies are done if you insert a toothpick near the edges and it comes out clean. The center will be slightly sticky compared to the drier edges.