Everyday Chocolate Brownies

Everyday Chocolate Brownies
Here's a yummy Brownie recipe from one of my newish cookbooks Kitchen by Nigella Lawson

I made these after seeing Nigella make them on her BBC2 show and they turned out great :)

Ingredients
150g unsalted butter
300g light brown muscovado sugar
75g unsweetened cocoa powder, sifted
150g plain flour
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
Pinch salt
4 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
About 150g milk chocolate, chopped into small nuggety chunks
Icing sugar, to dust, optional

To bake use a 25cm square x 5cm deep foil-lined baking tin or 1 foil tray approx. 30 x 20 x 5cm

1) Preheat the oven to 190C/Gas mark 5. Melt the butter over a gentle heat in a medium-sized saucepan

2) When it's melted, add the sugar, stirring with a wooden spoon (still over a low heat) to help it blend with the melted butter.

3) Sift together the cocoa powder, flour, bicarb and pinch of salt, and then stir into the pan; when mixed (this will be a very dry mixture, and not wholly blended at this stage), remove from the heat.

4) In a bowl or jug, whisk the eggs with the vanilla extract and then mix into the brownie mixture in the pan.

5) Stir in the chopped chocolate and quickly pour and scrape into a foil-lined baking tin or disposable foil pan, spreading the mixture with a spatula, and cook in the preheated oven for about 20 to 25 minutes. It will look set, dark and dry on top, but when you feel the surface, you will sense it is still wibbly underneath and a cake tester will come out gungy. This is desirable.

6) Transfer the pan to a rack to cool a little before cutting into 16 pieces and dusting with confectioners' sugar.

and here they are nom nom nom....

*Make Ahead Note: The brownies can be made up to 3 days ahead and stored in airtight container. Will keep for total of 5 days.


*Freeze Note: The brownies can be frozen for up to 3 months in airtight container, layered with baking parchment. Thaw overnight in cool place.

For the chocolate I used yorkies and twirls to get lots of nommy chocolate flavour.
I enjoyed them warm but the day after baking these were even better! I also froze some and they didn't taste any less amazing after being defrosted :)