It all started with an avocado

As you may have guessed this story starts with an avocado, one solitary avocado sat on my worktop just pleading to be used. Thus came my great idea of using it in a brownie recipe, this is where it all went wrong. 

After some googling and Pinterest time I found a Tanya Burr brownie recipe that looks pretty easy. I figured a little trip to Holland and Barrett would sort me out for the ingredients I needed (this being all of them). £24 later and a new loyalty card, now with £4 worth of points on and I still needed to stop at Sainsbury's for the eggs and chocolate. My plans never involved paying £15.99 for coconut oil another £7 for coconut sugar, something I'd never even heard of! I was now fully committed to making the most expensive brownies ever...

So I got cracking, my first stumble was trying to convert american cups to english measurements, after a few google attempts it seemed everything had a slightly different weight in gram. So onto checking them all individually and found out I didn't quite have enough sugar. Just a measly 100g short which I made up with extra ground almond, whilst thinking in my head seven pounds, seven pounds, seven pounds!!!

I stand corrected it's coconut blossom nectar...

The chocolate and coconut oil melting was pretty easy, looked pretty yummy.

It had an interesting taste and as we're talking about interested lets just review the final mixture once the egg and avocado was added.

I'm at a loss what to say to make this look any better than the scrambled egg concoction I'm seeing, by this point I was almost willing to give up. I persevered and ended up with a lumpy chocolate looking mixture, if i was being fully honest looked like a bowl of something a lot less appealing. In to the baking tray it went and quickly hidden into the oven.

Anyone with a fan oven will know the joys of guessing timing on cooking anything, and my guessing this time around did not go well. Yes after all this flapping and hassle I managed to add a nice black crust to the top of my brownie. I will have you know this is special skill that not many can achieve.

The final test, the tasting. Well what I can say? They're better eaten at about 5.40pm when it's just getting dark as the green bits of avocado and burnt edges are less visible.  But are they worthy of the 50p per a bite price tag? Honestly no. A pretty standard brownie but I have most definitely baked better. 

On the plus side I now have a gigantic jar of coconut oil to use so if anyone has any ideas that won't have me dipping into my house deposit money, send them over!

*An apology for the dancing avocado at the top, I'm about ready to chop that fella to pieces!!