Wild Food Recipe: Chocolate Orange Curly Dock Brownies
Are brownies one of the most popular treats today? I will admit that I am not much of a baker. Cooking is my calling and I love to work with food but I find the strict nature of baking, where you have to measure every ingredient carefully, too restricting. So when it comes to baking recipes I need easy to make ideas that will allow that extra room for flexibility if I decide to put in an extra spoonful of chocolate. These wild curly dock brownies turned out to be super simple and super tasty.
Ingredients
- 1 cup softened butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup of ground curly dock seeds
- 1/2 cup of all purpose flour
- 1/2 cup of cocoa powder
- 3 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder
- 200g of Dark chocolate
Chocolate Orange Buttercream
- 3 Tablespoons of butter
- 1 Cup of icing sugar
- 1 Teaspoon of Cocoa
- 3 Tablespoons of freshly squeezed orange juice
- Orange zest sliced thinly
How to Make Your Brownies
Preheat oven for 20 minutes.
Line a baking tray with parchment paper or tinfoil. Beat the sugar and butter together until it is light and fluffy, add the eggs and mix. Leave to the side while you prepare the dry ingredients. Melt 1/2 the chocolate over a hot pan and leave it cool down. Fold into the wet mix.
Sift the dock seed, flour, baking powder and cocoa power together.
Beat the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients.
Spread mix in lined baking tray.
Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until centre comes out clean with a knife.
Add wild berries and icing sugar to decorate.
Voila! Now you are ready to treat your friends to some wild curly dock brownies. Learn more about Foraging for Curly Dock seeds here.