Brownies
You do not need any complicated baking equipment to get a good result.
SERVES
12
PEOPLE
PREP TIME
15
MINUTES
COOKING TIME
25
MINUTES
Ingredients
250g butter
250g dark chocolate, broken into even- size pieces
4 eggs
330g golden caster sugar
a pinch of sea salt
10g cocoa powder
140g plain flour
Method
Line a 9in square tin with parchment and heat the oven to 180Ëš C/gas mark 4. I do not use the fan setting on my oven for brownies. Make sure to leave some parchment paper around the edges that can be used to remove the block of brownies from the tin after baking.
Melt the butter and dark chocolate together over a very low heat then take the saucepan off the heat.
Beat the eggs, sugar, salt, cocoa powder and flour together until combined.
Stir the two mixtures together and scoop the batter into your prepared tin.
Bake in the centre of an oven for about 25minutes. The surface will be shiny and justbeginning to crack around the edges and the centre will still be a little soft. You can use a skewer to test them. There should be moist crumbs attached when the skewer is poked into the centre of the tray. If there is stillwet batter on the skewer, the brownies need a bit longer in the oven: set the timer for three-minute intervals.
Allow to cool in the tin.
