Brownies

Method

• step 1

  Preheat the oven to 190C.

• step 2

  Melt the butter over a gentle heat in a medium sized saucepan. When it’s melted, add the sugar, stirring with a wooden spoon (still over a low heat to help it blend with the melted butter.)

• step 3

  Sift together the cocoa powder, flour, bicarb, salt and then stir into the pan; when mixed (this will be a very dry mixture, and not wholly blended at this stage), remove from the heat.

• step 4

  Whisk the eggs with the vanilla extract and then mix into the brownie mixture in the pan.

• step 5

  Stir in the chopped chocolate and quickly pour and scrape into a baking tin and bake for approximately 20-25 minutes.

• step 6

  It will look set, dark and dry on top, but when you feel the surface, you will sense it is still wobbly underneath and a cake tester will come out gooey. This is desirable.