These delicious brownies are very easy and quick to make for a treat. Use good chocolate with 70% cocoa solids to get a really good chocolately taste. They should be fudgy and slightly gooey in texture so keep an eye on the timer!
Ingredients:
250g dark chocolate (70% cocoa)
200g unsalted butter
200g caster sugar
3 free range eggs
125g plain flour
50g cocoa powder
Method:
- Pre-heat the oven to 160°C/gas 3. Line a rectangular baking tin with baking parchment. Make a bain marie, by putting a few centimetres of water in a saucepan and use a mixing bowl that fits well on the top of the pan, ensuring the water doesn’t touch the bowl. Bring the water to a simmer.
- Break up the chocolate and melt it with the butter in the bain marie. Stirring occasionally to ensure it is melting evenly and becoming a glossy mixture.
- In medium sized bowl whisk the sugar and eggs together until it is smooth and creamy. You can either use a balloon whisk or an electric hand whisk.
- Add the chocolate mixture to the eggy mixture, using a spatula to get every last bit out of the bowl! Mix together well with the spatula.
- Sift together the flour and cocoa powder into the eggy chocolate mixture, and stir well until it is incorporated and there are no flecks of flour visible.
- Pour into the prepared baking tin, smoothing the mixture so it fills the tin.
- Bake in the oven, on the middle shelf, for 20 minutes. A skewer or knife should come out a bit smeared with mixture.
- Leave to cool in the tin, then cut into squares and enjoy.
Cook’s Tip 1: When melting chocolate, don’t over heat it or stir too often as it will “seize” and split.
Cook’s Tip 2: The brownies are delicious served warm with ice cream. They will keep in a tin for a few days…if they last that long.
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Kumud Gandhi is a Nutritional Food Scientist bestselling Author, Broadcaster, and Keynote Speaker on the subject of nutritional health for productivity & performance in the workplace. In 2010 Kumud founded ‘The Cooking Academy’ a cookery school that focusses on cooking for nutritional health and wellbeing. Kumud regularly presents to international audiences on a variety of topics such as ‘Eating for Immunity and a Lifetime of Wellness’. She is an expert in the field of Wellness in the Workplace and works with organizations to create transformational change in employee health & well-being through nutrition and health coaching.
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