The Best Chocolate Brownies Ever

The  Best Chocolate Brownies Ever

Ingredients  (makes 12 brownies)

100g butter

100g good quality dark chocolate (broken into small pieces)

2 large eggs

100g ground walnuts

225g caster sugar

50g plain flour

1 level teaspoon baking powder

¼ teaspoon salt (optional)

Method

1. Grease a 18 x 28 cm baking tin with some butter, then line the base with greaseproof paper, and grease the paper as well.

2. Pre heat the oven to 180 degrees C

3. Melt the butter in a saucepan over a low heat.

4. Take the pan off the heat and add the chocolate pieces to the butter; stir the chocolate into the melted butter until the chocolate melts completely - if necessary return the pan to a very, very low heat or to be safer heat it over a bain marie as it is easy to overheat chocolate. 

5. Keep the melted chocolate and butter aside (off the heat).

6. Beat the eggs lightly in a large separate bowl.

7. Add the sugar, flour, walnuts, baking powder and salt to the beaten eggs.

8. Add the melted butter and chocolate to the egg mixture, and mix it all together thoroughly.

9. Spread the mixture evenly in the prepared baking tin and bake for 25 minutes in the centre of the pre heated oven.

10. Let the brownies cool completely before cutting them into 12 pieces.

11. Eat the brownies on their own or with some vanilla ice cream. (They taste divine when they are warm, but be careful if you remove them from the baking tin while they are still warm as they are quite crumbly before they cool down).