Jenna's Chocolate Brownies
- Preparation and cooking time
- Total time
- Including cooking time!!!
- Easy
- Makes Brownies
Ingredients
- 400g good quality dark chocolate (70%+ cocoa content)
- 400g butter
- 6 eggs
- 510g caster sugar
- 250g plain flour
- 1 tsp vanilla extract (optional)
- 1/2 tsp coffee granules (optional)
Method
- STEP 1Preheat oven to 160C-fan assisted, 180C-conventional, gas mark 4.
- STEP 2Butter and line a 27cm X 34cm deep square baking tin.
- STEP 3Melt broken up chocolate over a pan of boiling water in a bowl making sure the bowl is not touching the boiling water underneath. next melt the butter in a pan or in a microwave and stir into the melted chocolate. (make sure these ingrediants are in a big bowl as more will be added in later) Add in the coffee and vanilla(optional).
- STEP 4In a seperate bowl mix together sugar and eggs and add into the melted butter and chocolate stir this wet mixture well.
- STEP 5Sift flour into the chocolate etc and stir well until the mixture is smooth. put into the baking tin.
- STEP 6Bake for 50-55 minutes. it is important to leave the brownies in the tin to cool. When cooled cut them into squares. (these brownies taste even better if they are left for 24hrs)