The Ambassador’s Brownies

These are named after a dessert I love at Hawksmoor, my friend Fiona’s son Ben’s resplendent group of restaurants, which I have visited three times on special occasions. Theirs is a chocolate and hazelnut bombe of ice cream wrapped in gold leaf and dusted with hazelnuts, cheekily called Ambassador’s Reception after a certain favourite after-dinner chocolate. I’ve borrowed the concept and made it into five-minute brownies that can be cooked in the microwave, so be warned, once you read this