Rich chocolate brownies

Name: Rich chocolate brownies
Yield: Makes twelve squares
Ingredients: 175 g (6 oz) butter; ½ tsp vanilla extract; 250 g (9 oz) dark bitter chocolate, chopped; 100 g (3½ oz) plain flour; 1 level tsp baking powder; 100 g (3½ oz) walnuts, roughly chopped; 175 g (6 oz) white sugar; 3 eggs (65 g)

Preparation info

Makes
twelve
squares

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Old Food

By Jill Dupleix

Published 1998

About

A full-on hit of rich, dense, gooey pure chocolate brownies, cooked in a slab and cut into generous, messy, fudgy squares, it will keep cooking as it cools in the tin, and the top will sink, crack and look like a disaster area. This is good.

Ingredients

250 g (9 oz) dark bitter chocolate, chopped
175 g (6

Cake
Dessert
Baking
Vegetarian

Method

Heat oven to 180°C (350°F).

Butter a cake tin or baking tray measuring 25 cm by 30 cm (10 in by 12 in). Melt chocolate and butter in a heat-proof bowl set over a pot of gently simmering water,