What do you get when you mix up Mary Berry and the Hummingbird bakery?

Posted by annauk1 on August 20, 2011
Posted in: brownies, chocolate, Hummingbird bakery, Mary Berry. 27 Comments

You get my family’s favourite brownies! that’s what.

You may like to skip past this post if you like your brownies very fudgy, bitter and made with lots of extravagantly priced chocolate.

This is not that kind of recipe.

Think of a family-friendly brownie that both children and adults alike will enjoy, made with cocoa powder and chocolate chips, covered with a tangy, creamy chocolate cream cheese frosting.

Heavenly.

Mary Berry’s chocolate chip brownies:


275g softened butter
375g caster sugar
4 large eggs
75g cocoa powder
100g self-raising flour
100g plain chocolate chips.

Preheat oven to 180deg. C or 160 deg. C if you have a fan oven.

Grease and line a 12x9inch tray with baking parchment or foil.

Measure all the ingredients into a large bowl and beat until blended.

Spoon mixture into the prepared tin, levelling the top.

Bake for 40-45 minutes. cover with foil if browning too much towards the end of the cooking time.

Leave to cool in the tin, then remove and cut into 24 squares. (I never, ever get 24 squares, LOL!)

Hummingbird bakery’s chocolate cream cheese frosting:


200g icing sugar, sifted
75g unsalted butter at room temperature
30g cocoa powder, sifted
150g cream cheese, cold.

Beat together the icing sugar, cocoa powder and butter in a mixer fitted with a paddle attatchment on medium-low until mixture has come together.
Add the cream cheese in one go and beat until completely incorporated.
Turn mixer up to medium high, continue beating until frosting is light and fluffy, at least five minutes.

When the brownies are cold, spread the gorgeous frosting over the top.
Scrummy and yummy and gorgeous!

27 comments on “What do you get when you mix up Mary Berry and the Hummingbird bakery?”

  4. These look lovely and suitably squidgy. It's great to have a recipe that looks so inviting but doesn't require that special, expensive chocolate – particularly since I've just eaten all the expensive chocolate.

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  7. UH OH, let me just click "print this" and get going on it. After all, summer is nearly over and bathing suits won't be in my wardrobe for another year.Love it,Sharon Lovejoy Writes from Sunflower House and a Little Green island

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  8. hehe…if I bought some priced chocolate, they were usually eaten up before I had a chance to use them in the baking. ;-)) Your brownies look divine..and I love the chocolate cheese frosting a lot!

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  12. If it's OK with you Anna, can I admit to liking the indulgent, extravegant brownies AND the equally indulgent but less extravegant versions? As long as they're chocolatey and moist, I'm IN:):) What a clever girl you are to combine such two delicious recipes!

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  15. Oh goodie, another brownie recipe to try – I'd start to have withdrawal symptoms if I thought I'd come to the end of the line 😉 Love the idea of the cheese topping – yum.

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  24. I think its nice to have recipes for both types of brownies. Your cake version looks delicious and my family will devour them. I hope you have a great day. Blessings…Mary

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  27. Hi Anna, just wanted to tell you I finally made these brownies! Sadly though I won't get to sample them because I gave them to a local cafe..I'm doing some baking for them this week. But the smell while they were baking were divine and they are probably the easiest brownie recipe I've ever made. They also cut really beautifully. As soon as I get some more cocoa powder I'll make a batch for home so I can try them (with the cream cheese icing!) xx

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