Best Ever Chocolate Brownie Recipe!

This recipe for chocolate brownies comes from Nigella Lawson’s book How to be a Domestic Goddess. Nigella’s recipe makes a big batch of 48(!) brownies. As much as I love them, 48 brownies is quite a lot, so I always halve this recipe. It's not exactly halved - I add slightly more chocolate than half, but that is not necessarily a bad thing! I love putting different biscuits or chocolate into the batter and sprinkled on top, but they are just as good plain. I really hope you like these brownies as much as I do - I have tried other recipes and none of them even come close!

Ingredients (makes approx. 20 brownies)

190g butter

200g dark chocolate

3 free range eggs

½ tbsp vanilla extract

250g caster sugar

115g plain flour

1 tsp salt

Optional ingredient ideas

150g chopped walnuts
1 packet of crushed Oreos

2 bars of Daim chocolate

 Method

1. Preheat your oven to 180°C and grease and line your brownie pan with butter and foil or baking parchment.
2. Melt the butter and chocolate together in a saucepan on a medium heat. Use quite a big saucepan so that you can fit the rest of the ingredients in later. When the chocolate is smooth and runny take it off the heat and leave it to cool.
3. In a mixing bowl beat your eggs with the sugar and vanilla extract. Weigh out the flour, add the salt and leave on the scales.
4. When your chocolate mixture has cooled slightly beat in the egg, sugar and vanilla mixture followed by your flour (which will be better sifted) and salt. If you are using any extra ingredients such as walnuts or Oreos, add most of them in to the mixture here.
5. Combine it all together and then scrape it into your brownie pan. You can sprinkle the rest of your extra ingredients over the top before baking for approx. 22-25 minutes. The top of the brownies will have crusted over slightly but will still be gooey in the middle, but they will continue to cook as they cool down.
6. Once your brownies have cooled, take them out of the pan and remove the foil or parchment and cut into as many brownies as you like – big or small!

I really hope you enjoy this chocolate brownie recipe! They also make a really lovely dessert warmed up with a scoop of vanilla ice cream :)