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Chocolate brownies recipe

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Ingredients

  • 250 g butter
  • 200 g dark chocolate
  • 65 g ground almonds
  • 85 g cocoa powder
  • 350 g caster sugar
  • 100 g pistachios, chopped

Method

  1. Heat the oven to 180C/gas 4 and line a square brownie tin with baking parchment.
  2. Melt the butter and dark chocolate together gently in a heatproof bowl over barely simmering water.
  3. Remove the bowl from the heat. Mix in the ground almonds, cocoa, caster sugar and chopped pistachios until evenly combined.
  4. Spread the mixture in the prepared tin and bake for 20 minutes.
  5. Cool completely in the tin before cutting into squares.