Being married to a man who was brought up close to the UK’s heart of brewing, it’s not surprising that his interest in beer has rubbed off on me. I could quite happily sup on a half pint of porter, but my ultimate favorite has to be Samuel Smith’s fruit beers especially the raspberry one as it tastes of summer. The taste of summer is just what we need as the snow is beginning to settle outside.
After stocking up on some of the beer at Sound Bites in Derby yesterday, I had a brainwave on the drive home. You can make brownies with Guinness, so surely you can do the same with glorious Raspberry beer. I also made them to celebrate having 100,000 hits on my blog since it started. To add some additional color to the brownies I stirred some raspberries into the batter.
To be honest, I cook with beer just as much as I drink it and like wines different beers go with different dishes. The smell of the brownie batter as I made these was divine and once cooked they tasted like my raspberry truffles in a gooey cake form, can’t be bad! Just note, if you do make these it makes quite a sloppy batter, but don’t worry they will still bake well.
Raspberry Beer Brownies Recipe
Makes 16
Ingredients:
- 4 eggs
- 140g caster sugar
- 300g dark chocolate
- 70g unsalted butter
- 110g plain flour
- 2 tsp cocoa
- 290ml raspberry beer
- 100g raspberries
- icing sugar
Instructions:
1) Preheat oven to 190oc and line a deep 8 inch square baking pan with baking parchment.
2) Combine eggs and sugar. On a medium heat melt chocolate and butter until smooth. Allow to cool for about 3 mins.
3) Stir chocolate mix into egg mix. Sift in flour and cocoa. Beat until well combined.
4) Whisk in beer then fold in raspberries. Pour batter into the pan pan. Bake for 25 min until a skewer comes out just about clean. It will continue to cook slightly after being taken out of oven.
5) Once cooled, drench in icing sugar and slice.