Chocolate Brownies

American

Dessert Difficulty: Easy Servings: 8 Total: 40 min

Ingredients

  • Butter 115 g
  • Dark chocolate (60-70%) 60 g
  • Sugar 200 g
  • Eggs 2 large
  • Vanilla extract 1 tsp
  • Plain flour 70 g
  • Cocoa powder 30 g
  • Salt 1/4 tsp
Prep
15 min
Cook
25 min

Instructions

  1. 1

    Heat the oven to 180C and line a 20 cm square tin with baking paper.

  2. 2

    Melt the butter and chocolate together in a pan over low heat, stirring, then take the pan off the heat and cool for 5 minutes.

  3. 3

    Whisk in the sugar, then the eggs one at a time and the vanilla, until the mixture is thick and glossy.

  4. 4

    Sift in the flour, cocoa and salt and fold gently until no dry flour remains.

  5. 5

    Spread the batter evenly in the tin.

  6. 6

    Bake for 22-25 minutes, until the top is set and a skewer comes out with moist crumbs.

  7. 7

    Cool completely in the tin, then cut into 8 pieces.