Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.
Audrey Hepburn
Who doesn't love a big, gooey (yep, I use this word a lot - I love it), chocolatey piece of brownie?
I'm certainly not one who can refuse it and one of my favourite things about brownies is if you cook it for slightly too long you still get a wonderful chocolate cake! Perfect.
I've written down here my favourite brownie recipe. Now this is sadly not one I created but unfortunately I don't remember where I found it so can't give credit. Also with this recipe it's easy to tinker with some of the ingredients, you can easily add more chocolate chips, add nuts or even fruit so you can really personalise it.
Ingredients:
185g butter/margarine
185g dark chocolate
85g plain flour
40g cocoa powder
50g white chocolate chips
50g milk chocolate chip
3 large eggs
275g caster sugar
Method:
1. Position your shelf to the middle of your oven. Preheat to 160c (fan assisted or 180c no fan).
2. Cut your butter/margarine into smallish cubes and put into a medium microwave safe bowl. Break your dark chocolate into small pieces and drop into the bowl with the butter.
3. Cover loosely with cling film and put in the microwave for 2 minutes on full power.
4. Leave mix to cool to room temperature.
5. Prepare your brownie tin with lining it with grease proof paper.
6. Break eggs into a large bowl and add the sugar. Whisk (on high-speed if using an electric whisk) until its thick and creamy. It should double in size.
7. Gently fold in the cooled chocolate butter mixture but go slow.
8. Now add the cocoa powder and flour (at the same time) by sieving and folding in.
9. Stir gently in the white and milk chocolate chips.
10. Pour into your prepared tin and cook for approx. 25 minutes or until the top has a shiny crust and the sides are pulling away.
Let me know how this turns out for you and what new yummy additions you make!
I'll be posting a gluten-free version in the next few days so stay tuned.
Happy baking!
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