Chocolate brownies
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Chocolate brownies
Rich chocolate brownies with soft centres and a delicate crackly top.
- Prep
- 15 min
- Cook
- 25 min
- Serves
- 12
- Level
- Easy
Gather
Ingredients
- 150 gunsalted butter, cubed
- 200 gdark chocolate, chopped
- 200 gcaster sugar
- 3medium eggs
- 90 gplain flour
- 25 gcocoa powder
- 1 tspvanilla extract
- ¼ tspsalt
Make
Method
- 1.
Heat the oven to 180°C/160°C fan and line a 20 cm square tin with baking paper.
- 2.
Melt the butter and chocolate together in a heatproof bowl over gently simmering water, without letting the bowl touch the water. Remove and cool slightly.
5 minutes - 3.
Whisk the sugar, eggs and vanilla until thick and slightly foamy, then stir in the chocolate mixture.
3 minutes - 4.
Sift in the flour and cocoa, add the salt and fold gently until combined.
2 minutes - 5.
Spread in the tin and bake for 22–25 minutes, until the edges are set and a skewer from the centre has moist crumbs but no liquid batter.
25 minutes - 6.
Cool completely in the tin, then lift out and cut into 12 squares.