Chocolate Brownies
Ingredients
100g Butter
100g Dark Chocolate
300g Sugar
Pinch of salt
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
3 eggs (beaten)
120g Plain flour
2 tablespoons Cocoa powder/drinking
chocolate
100g nuts (optional)
Icing
250ml cream
100g dark chocolate
Method
Turn on the oven – Gas mark 4/180C, prepare baking tray
1. Place the butter & chocolate into a saucepan and stir over a low heat until
melted.
2. Stir in the sugar and salt and vanilla essence, mix well. Remove from heat. Stir until
cooled down a little.
3.Add the eggs, a little at a time. Mix well after each addition.
4.Add the sieved flour & cocoa stirring in a figure of eight with a metal spoon.
5. Add the nuts now.
6. Pour the mixture into the prepared tray.
7.Cook for approx. 30 to 35 mins or until firm to touch, remove from tray, cut into squares
and allow to cool in baking tray.
Icing
Heat the cream in a pan,
once it has reduced in quantity by one third remove from the heat and add
chopped chocolate. Let the mixture stand for a few minutes then coat over
brownies and let it set.
Don’t forget the washing
up!!!!
Ingredients
100g Butter
100g Dark Chocolate
300g Sugar
Pinch of salt
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
3 eggs (beaten)
120g Plain flour
2 tablespoons Cocoa powder/drinking
chocolate
100g nuts (optional)
Icing
250ml cream
100g dark chocolate
Method
Turn on the oven – Gas mark 4/180C, prepare baking tray
1. Place the butter & chocolate into a saucepan and stir over a low heat until
melted.
2. Stir in the sugar and salt and vanilla essence, mix well. Remove from heat. Stir until
cooled down a little.
3.Add the eggs, a little at a time. Mix well after each addition.
4.Add the sieved flour & cocoa stirring in a figure of eight with a metal spoon.
5. Add the nuts now.
6. Pour the mixture into the prepared tray.
7.Cook for approx. 30 to 35 mins or until firm to touch, remove from tray, cut into squares
and allow to cool in baking tray.
Icing
Heat the cream in a pan,
once it has reduced in quantity by one third remove from the heat and add
chopped chocolate. Let the mixture stand for a few minutes then coat over
brownies and let it set.
Don’t forget the washing
up!!!!