Bakers Chocolate Squares Recipes

GERMAN CHOCOLATE CAKE SQUARES

Steps:

• Make Cake: Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Butter a 13 x 9-inch glass baking dish.
• Bring water to a simmer in small saucepan.
• Reduce heat to low.
• Add chopped chocolate; whisk until smooth.
• Cool.
• Sift flour, baking powder and salt into medium bowl.
• Using elelctric mixer, beat sugar and butter in large bowl until blended.
• Beat in yolks one at a time.
• Beat in cooled chocolate mixture and vanilla.
• Beat in dry ingredients alternately with buttermilk.
• Using clean, dry beaters, beat whites in another bowl until stiff but not dry.
• Fold into batter in 2 additions.
• Pour batter into prepared dish.
• Sprinkle with chocolate chips.
• Bake until tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 55-60 minutes.
• Cool cake in pan on rack.
• Make Frosting: Combine first 5 ingredients in heavy saucepan.
• Whisk over medium-high heat until mixture simmers, thickens and leaves path on back of spoon when finger is drawn across, about 18 minutes.
• Mix in coconut and pecans.
• Spread warm frosting over cake.
• Immediately sprinkle 1/4 cup chocolate chips over.
• Let stand until frosting sets, about 2 hours.
• Cut cake into squares and serve.

EASY CHOCOLATE ÉCLAIR SQUARES

Steps:

• Beat pudding mix and 1-3/4 cups milk in large bowl with whisk 2 min. Stir in COOL WHIP.
• Layer about 1/3 of the grahams and half the COOL WHIP mixture in 13x9-inch pan, breaking grahams as necessary to fit; repeat layers. Top with remaining grahams.
• Microwave chocolate and butter in medium microwaveable bowl on HIGH 1-1/2 min., stirring after 1 min. Stir until chocolate is completely melted and mixture is well blended. Add sugar and remaining milk; mix well. Spread over grahams.
• Refrigerate 4 hours.

CHOCOLATE SQUARES I

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C).
• Cook chopped dates and water over low heat until soft. Set aside.
• Cream together sugar and shortening. Add eggs and beat well. Stir in flour, salt, baking soda, cocoa and vanilla and mix well. Stir in date mixture.
• Pour in 9 x 11 inch pan and top with chocolate chips and chopped nuts. Bake until toothpick comes out clean. (10 - 15 minutes)

FUDGY CHOCOLATE SQUARES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4 and line a 20 x 30cm brownie tin with baking parchment. Tip the butter and chocolate into a non-stick saucepan and melt over a low heat, stirring every now and then, until smooth - take care not to overheat it. Leave to cool.
• Meanwhile, mix the sugar, flour, cocoa and almonds with the xanthan gum. Stir into the chocolate mixture, then beat in the eggs and add the walnuts. Turn the mixture into the tin, level with a spatula and bake for 30-35 mins until firm and just cooked - when tested with a skewer, the crumb should still be a little moist. Cool in the tin.
• To make the icing, melt the butter in a non-stick pan. Stir in the cocoa and cook, stirring, for about 1 min. Add the icing sugar and milk, and beat well. Pour on top of the cooled cake, scatter with the walnuts and lightly press them in. Leave until set, then carefully remove from the tin, strip off the baking parchment and cut into squares. Will keep for several days in a tin.

BAKER'S ONE BOWL BROWNIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a 13x9 inch baking pan with foil, with ends of foil extending over sides of pan. Grease foil.
• Microwave chocolate and butter in large microwavable bowl on high 2 minutes or until butter is melted. Stir until chocolate is melted. Stir in sugar. Blend in eggs and vanilla. Add flour and nuts, mix well. Spread into prepared pan.
• Bake 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out with fudgy crumbs. Do no overbake. Cool in pan. Remove brownies from pan using foil as handles. Cut into 24 squares.
• CAKE-LIKE Brownies: Prepare as directed, stirring in 1/2 cup milk along with eggs and vanilla and increase flour to 1-1/2 cups.