Recipe: Chunky Chocolate Brownies

Wow. I made brownies for the first time and they taste amazing. 👌 Need to write this down now before I forget what I did! Tweaked this recipe slightly as I usually find the full amount of dark chocolate in recipes too rich. 🙆

Ingredients
160g salted butter
150g dark chocolate
35g milk chocolate
275g caster sugar
3 eggs
1 tsp vanilla essence
85g plain flour
40g cocoa powder
75g white chocolate (chopped)
50g milk chocolate (chopped)

Method
1) Line a baking tray with greaseproof paper and preheat oven to fan 180C.
2) Melt together the butter, dark chocolate and milk chocolate in a glass bowl over a saucepan of simmering water on the hob.
3) Whisk the eggs and sugar together until light and frothy/doubled in volume. Add the vanilla essence and whisk to combine.
4) Pour the cooled melted chocolate mixture into the egg mixture and gently fold together with a spatula.
5) Sift in the flour and cocoa a little at a time, folding in gently with the spatula.
6) Add the chopped chocolate and fold in gently. Try not to overmix.
7) Tip the mixture into the baking tray and carefully spread evenly to the corners with the spatula.
8) Bake for 25min. When it's ready it shouldn't wobble when the tray is shaken.
9) Leave to cool completely in the baking tray.
10) Dust with icing sugar and cut into squares.

I think I might have to experiment with this as the base - change the amount of chopped chocolate, replace with walnuts/marshmallows/Smarties... Add Nutella... Top with ganache... The texture and richness of these were just perfect though. 😍