Chocolate Brownies
The recipe for the best brownies, – intensely chocolatey, soft and fudgy.This recipe makes enough for a traybake tin of about 30×22 cm
Servings 12 servings
Ingredients
- 200 g dark chocolate - 70%
- 140 g butter
- 4 eggs
- 80 g plain flour
- 250 g caster sugar
- 50 ml cocoa powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
Instructions
- Melt the butter over a low heat, turn off the heat and stir in the chocolate until melted and smooth.
- Whisk the eggs and sugar until pale, thick and fluffy.
- Sift the flour, salt and cocoa into the egg mixture and fold in gently.
- Finally, fold in the butter and chocolate mixture in a couple of additions.
- Pour the batter into a traybake tin lined with baking parchment and bake in a preheated conventional oven (top and bottom heat) at 175°C for about 25 minutes.
- Let the brownie cool slightly before cutting it into squares. Store in an airtight container at room temperature.