Rich and Delicious (and Slightly Boozy!) Black Forest Brownies Recipe (video)
Another dessert recipe this week! We made these really excellent Black Forest brownies. This is a bit like a slightly deconstructed black forest cake, and honestly you can use whatever your favourite brownie recipe is for the base. We intentionally wanted to make this recipe not completely sickly sweet all over the place, so we found ourselves some sour cherries instead of using, for instance, cherry pie filling. If you can't find canned sour cherries, you can add lemon juice to cherry pie filling for a little bit of a tart zing.
We also use some ingredients in the sauce that we didn't go into a whole lot of detail about. We add dietary fibre (in the form of acacia gum and inulin) to lower the glycemic index of this quite sugary dessert. This is entirely optional, and if you don't wish to use the dietary fibre, you can replace it with a bit more of the cornstarch that we used to thicken the cherry sauce. Both of those ingredients are completely unnoticeable in the final product, and do not affect the taste.
Additionally, we soaked the cherries in cognac, but you can use whatever booze you prefer, or no booze at all! We covered the cherries while they were soaking to prevent too much of the alcohol from evaporating, but if you're planning on serving these to kids, you may wish to let them soak uncovered or heat them a little longer to evaporate more of the alcohol.
