Christmas Brownies

By foodgloriousfoodx

Makes 15 squares

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Ingredients

100g dark chocolate
100g milk chocolate
115g butter, plus extra for greasing
3 eggs, beaten
5ml vanilla extract
300g caster sugar
200g glace cherries
50g Brazil nuts, chopped
For the chocolate topping
100g dark chocolate
50g butter

Details

servings 15
Level of difficulty Easy
Preparation time 20mins
Cooking time 35mins
Cost Average budget

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 190C/375F/Gas mark 5. Grease a square cake tin or brownie tin and line the base with baking partchement.

Step 2

Break the dark and milk chocolate and butter in a heatproof bowl and heat in the microwave in 30 second blasts *4 and stir after each blast until the chocolate is melted.

Step 3

Once the chocolate has melted stir in the beaten eggs. vanilla and sugar. Mix all the ingredients well together.

Step 4

Sift the flour into the chocolate mixture. Add the glace cherries and chopped Brazil nuts until combined. Pour the mixture into the bronwie tin.

Step 5

Bake for around 30-35 minutes. The brownies are cooked when the mixture is set yet moist, leave to cool in the tin.

Step 6

When the brownies are baking make the chocolate gancache topping. Place the dark chocolate and butter in a heat proof bowl and place in the microwave for 30 seconds and stir. Leave to set and spread on top of the brownies once they are cool.