Dulwich Despatch Christmas 2014

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Scrumptious Chocolate Brownies

At A Glance Prep time: 15 minutes Cooking time: 40 minutes

Gooey Chocolate Sauce (optional) While your brownies are cooking you can make the sauce to go with it!

Brownie Ingredients: 100g Plain flour 50g Cocoa powder 125g Dark chocolate, broken into small pieces 250g Butter 325g Golden caster sugar 4 Medium eggs Method 1. Preheat oven to 180 ° Celsius, fan 160 ° Celsius, gas mark 4. 2. Grease and line a rectangular tin around 28cm x 18cm x 3cm with baking parchment. 3. In a small bowl, sift together the flour and the cocoa powder. 4. Place the chocolate and butter together in a heatproof bowl and place over a pan of simmering water, heating gently until both the butter and the chocolate has melted. Make sure that you don’t heat up the chocolate too quickly otherwise the chocolate will burn. 5. Place the sugar in a large bowl and pour the chocolate mixture in with the sugar. 6. Add the eggs gradually, beating well, then gradually add flour and cocoa. 7. You should now have a smooth mixture. 8. Pour into your ready prepared tin, bake in the centre of the oven for 40 mins!

Chocolate Sauce Ingredients: 70g dark chocolate, broken into small pieces 150ml of milk 2 teaspoons of sugar 5 teaspoons of maple syrup Method 1. Place your pan on the cooker top and add to it your milk. Let this heat up until just about to boil, remembering to stir the milk. (Do not allow the milk to boil you will know if it is boiling if it is bubbling quickly). 2. Add in your chocolate and sugar, stir until the ingredients are incorporated well. 3. Add in your maple syrup to the mixture. 4. Take off the heat and leave to cool to room temperature. 5. Put in a bowl and leave this in the fridge for around ten minutes. 6. After making the sauce cut the brownies into squares and cover half of them with the sauce then take the other half of the brownies and place them on top of the covered brownies!

Jedidiah Burge Thomas 7L

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