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Chocolate Brownies

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Preparation time: 20 minutes

Cooking time: 30 minutes

Serves: 18

Scale to servings

Adapted from: CacaoWeb.net

These rather predictably went down very well at work when I took some in.

Ingredients
  • 170 g butter
  • 300 g sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 90 g plain flour
  • 60 g cocoa powder
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 100 g chopped pecans or walnuts (optional)
Method
  1. Preheat oven to 180°C (gas mark 4).
  2. Line a 30×20 cm cake tin with greaseproof paper.
  3. Melt the butter.
  4. Beat eggs with sugar, and add the vanilla, flour, cocoa, baking powder and melted butter.
  5. Add chopped nuts, if using.
  6. Bake for 20-30 minutes, until cooked through (test with a knife or toothpick).