Mrs Carr's Chocolate Brownies

Trialled & Tested by 12D Economists

Ingredients

190g unsalted butter

100g milk chocolate

90g dark chocolate

100g plain flour

40g cocoa powder

50g milk chocolate chips

50g white chocolate chips

Around 30g white chocolate shavings

3 eggs

275g caster sugar

Instructions

1. Cut the 190g unsalted butter in cubes and tip into a medium bowl with the 190g of milk and dark chocolate.

2. Fill a small saucepan about half full with hot water, then sit the bowl on top so it rests on the rim of the pan. Put over a low heat until the butter and chocolate have melted, stirring occasionally with a spatula to mix them.

3. Once the chocolate and butter has completely melted, remove the bowl from the pan and leave to the side to cool.

4. Turn the oven on to 180 degrees – prepare a shallow 20cm square tin with baking parchment paper

5. Break the eggs into a large and tip the sugar in. With an electric mixer on maximum speed, whisk the eggs and sugar. They will look thick and creamy, like a milk shake. This can take about 5-10 minutes, depending on how powerful your mixer is. The mixture will be ready when it becomes and pale and has doubled in it’s original volume.

6. Pour the cooled chocolate mixture over the eggy mousse, then gently fold together with a spatula. Continue going under and over in a figure of eight, moving the bowl round after each folding so you can get at it from all sides, until the two mixtures are one and the colour is a dark brown.

7. Hold the sieve over the bowl of eggy chocolate mixture and sift the cocoa and flour mixture, shaking the sieve from side to side, to cover the top evenly.

8. Gently fold in the powder mixture using the same figure of eight action as before. The mixture will look dry and dusty at first, but will end up looking gungy and fudgy at the end.

9. Stir in the white and milk chocolate chips

10. Pour the mixture into the prepared tin, scraping every bit out of the bowl with the spatula. Gently ease the mixture into the corners of the tin and paddle the spatula from side to side across the top to level it.

11. Put the brownies in the oven for 30 minutes, you will know when they are done.

12. Leave the brownies it tin until they have completely cooled down and then lift out the tin and cut into squares.