{"id":918,"date":"2019-12-20T12:27:08","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T12:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/food\/?p=918"},"modified":"2019-12-20T12:27:40","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T12:27:40","slug":"christmas-brownies-recipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/food\/christmas-brownies-recipe\/uncategorized\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Brownies Recipe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ingredients<\/strong><br \/>\n30ml\/1fl oz brandy<br \/>\n100g\/3\u00bdoz dried cranberries<br \/>\n300g\/10\u00bdoz dark chocolate, broken into chunks<br \/>\n200g\/7oz butter<br \/>\n4 free-range eggs<br \/>\n300g\/10\u00bdoz light muscovado sugar<br \/>\n200g\/7oz plain flour<br \/>\n1 tsp mixed spice<br \/>\n100g\/3\u00bdoz pecans, roughly chopped<br \/>\nicing sugar, to serve<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/food\/ic\/food_16x9_832\/recipes\/christmas_brownies_41164_16x9.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas brownies\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Method<\/strong><br \/>\nPreheat the oven to 180C\/350F\/Gas 4 and line a 30x20cm\/12x8in tin with baking parchment.<\/p>\n<p>Gently heat the brandy then add the cranberries and leave to soak while you prepare the brownie mix.<\/p>\n<p>Melt the chocolate and butter in a bowl over a pan of simmering water, or in the microwave. Stir gently until smooth then set aside to cool slightly.<\/p>\n<p>In a large bowl, whisk together the eggs and sugar until pale and fluffy.<\/p>\n<p>Whisk the chocolate and butter mix into the eggs then gently fold in the flour, mixed spice, pecans, cranberries and brandy until fully incorporated.<\/p>\n<p>Pour into the prepared tin, smooth the surface then bake in the oven for 25-30 minutes, or until the brownie is firm to the touch.<\/p>\n<p>Leave to cool in the tin for 10 minutes, then place on a wire rack until cooled completely.<\/p>\n<p>Once cool, cut into squares and dust the tops with icing sugar.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/bbcgoodfood.com\">BBC GoodFood<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ingredients 30ml\/1fl oz brandy 100g\/3\u00bdoz dried cranberries 300g\/10\u00bdoz dark chocolate, broken into chunks 200g\/7oz butter 4 free-range eggs 300g\/10\u00bdoz light muscovado sugar 200g\/7oz plain flour 1 tsp mixed spice 100g\/3\u00bdoz pecans, roughly chopped icing sugar, to serve Method Preheat the oven to 180C\/350F\/Gas 4 and line a 30x20cm\/12x8in tin with baking parchment. Gently heat the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,68,53,116],"class_list":["post-918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-christmas","tag-dessert","tag-food","tag-food-recipe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":921,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions\/921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}