Rich, Decadent Chocolate Chunk Brownies

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• 6 ounces unsalted butter, plus extra
• unsalted butter, for greasing
• 3 ounces self raising flour, sifted, plus extra
• self raising flour, for dusting
• 6 ounces unsweetened chocolate, broken into pieces
• 1 teaspoon instant coffee
• 3 large eggs
• 9 ounces caster sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence
• 100 g chocolate
• double cream or vanilla ice cream

Recipe

• 1 preheat the oven to 300°f.
• 2 grease a 20x20cm/8x8inch square brownie tin and dust with flour, then shake out the excess.
• 3 place the butter, chocolate and coffee in a bowl and melt together either in the microwave or set over a pan of steaming water.
• 4 in a separate bowl, beat the eggs and sugar together until pale and creamy, then add the vanilla essence.
• 5 gently stir the still warm chocolate mixture into the egg and sugar mixture.
• 6 fold in the flour using a wooden spoon.
• 7 break your favourite chocolate into pieces and place the pieces on the bottom of your brownie tin. use as much chocolate as you like.
• 8 pour the brownie mixture into the tin.
• 9 bake in the oven for 25 - 35 minutes.
• 10 allow to cool slightly and serve when needed!
• 11 i am not sure how long this brownie will keep for as it lasted only 2 and a half days in our house, but it was gorgeous when eaten warm with ice-cream and cold on its own.