Best ever chocolate brownies
A classic, gooey chocolate brownie recipe that can be ramped up with added ingredients. We’ve included three suggestions to add chocolate chunks, nuts or marshmallows
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- Serves: 12 persons
Ingredients
- 100g butter, chopped
- 200g dark chocolate, chopped
- 4eggs
- 250g golden caster sugar
- 100g plain flour
- 1tsp baking powder
- 30g cocoa
- 100g white or milk chocolate chunks, chopped
- 100g hazelnuts, toasted, roughly chopped
- 100g pecans, toasted, roughly chopped
- baby marshmallows, 2 handfuls
Instructions
Step 1
Heat the oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4.Step 2
Line a 22cm square brownie tin with baking parchment. Melt the butter and chocolate together in a microwave or in a bowl set over a pan of simmering water. Cool to room temperature.Step 3
Whisk the eggs and sugar together until the mixture is light and fluffy.Step 4
Fold the chocolate mixture into the egg mixture and sift on the flour, baking powder and cocoa.Step 5
Fold this in to give a fudgy batter.Step 6
(To ramp it up, add 100g chopped white or milk chocolate chunks OR 100g toasted, roughly chopped hazelnuts or pecans OR 2 handfuls of baby marshmallows.)Step 7
Bake for 25-30 minutes or until the top is cracked but the middle just set. Cool completely, then lift out of the tin and cut.