#5 Best Chocolate Brownies ever

Ingredients

• 90g plain (dark) chocolate
• 150g butter
• 125g plain flour
• 15 cocoa powder
• ½ teaspoon of baking powder
• 2 eggs
• 300g brown sugar
• 100g chopped pecan nuts or chocolate chips
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
• 1 pinch of salt

Utensils

• Baking tin (20cm x 15cm)
• baking paper
• 3 medium bowls (2 can be smaller, 1 larger)
• wooden spoon
• small saucepan
• sieve
• rubber spoon spatula
• knives
• oven gloves

Method

1. Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease and line the base of the baking tin with non stick baking paper.

2. Break the chocolate into a bowl and add the butter. Melt the butter and chocolate over a saucepan of barely simmering water, stirring occasionally.

Remove the bowl from the heat and allow the chocolate to cool slightly. Sieve the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt into a separate bowl.

4. In a third bowl, beat the eggs and then add the sugar and vanilla extract. Stir the ingredients together until they are just combined.

5. Fold the melted chocolate into beaten egg mixture. Then fold in the flour mixture and nuts. There should be no visible flour.

6. Spoon the mixture into the tin, smooth the top with a palette knife and bake for 25min. Allow it to cool in the tin before cutting into squares. Sprinkle with some icing sugar if desidered.