Chocolate Orange Brownie

Upon my return home from London I was keen to get back into the kitchen to do some baking, as it'd been a long while since I'd made anything sweet for myself and my family. It was only after a request from my sister to make a delicious brownie for a saturday movie night that I stumbled onto this recipe. I've made brownies before, both from scratch and using a packet mix, but this is by far the best I have ever made! If i do say so myself. So I thought I'd share the recipes and a few tweaks I made to it. 

You can find the recipe here, where it is rate as moderately easy. I completely agree, and I'd go as far to say it is very easy to the experienced baker. I highly recommend the BBC GoodFood website. Its a great place for recipes with a bit of a difference and they're super helpful.

Ingredients-

(There are a few changes here in comparison to the web recipe)

1. 4 eggs
2. 120g Dairy Milk Chocolate 
3. 80g Dark Chocolate
4. 50g Cocoa Powder 
5. 100g Plain Flour
6. 200g Butter
7. Zest 1 Orange 
8. 350g Caster Sugar

Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4 and line a deepish brownie tin with baking parchment. I also lightly greased the sides as to stop the brownie from sticking then removing it. 

Put the butter, dark chocolate and orange zest in a non-stick saucepan and very gently melt over a low heat, stirring every now and then, until smooth – take care not to overheat it. Allow it to Cool.

Whisk the eggs and sugar together with an electric whisk until the mixture is pale, has doubled in volume and leaves a trail when the beaters are lifted. 

Gently stir into the cooled chocolate mixture. 

Sift over the flour and cocoa, stir in.

Pour into the lined tin and bake for 35-40 mins. Cool in the tin, then cut into squares.

And this is the end result! Slightly crumbly and difficult to cut as you can probably seen, but I think that was because I used a mixture of milk and dark chocolate. Prettiness aside, its the most beautiful thing I've ever made! Perfect with double cream or ice cream, or in smaller bite size pieces as a light snack. Try it!