Brownies recipe

Ingredients

• 340 g milk chocolate, chopped
• 100 g butter
• 4 large eggs
• 150 g sugar
• 1 vanilla pod, split
• 1 tsp salt
• 110 g plain flour
• 175 g milk chocolate, chopped
• knob of butter

Method

1. Heat the oven to 180°C (gas 4). Grease and flour a brownie tin.
2. Melt 340g chopped milk chocolate with the 100g butter over low heat, stirring until smooth. Remove from the heat and let the mixture cool until lukewarm.
3. Stir in the eggs, sugar, vanilla seeds and salt. Fold in the flour just until combined, followed by roughly one third of the remaining chopped chocolate.
4. Spread the batter in the tin and bake for 25–30 minutes, until a skewer inserted in the centre carries a few moist crumbs. Cool completely before cutting into bars.
5. For the drizzle, melt the remaining chocolate with the knob of butter and spoon or pipe it over the cooled brownies.