Four nut chocolate brownies
- Prepare
- less than 30 mins
- Cook
- 30 mins to 1 hour
- Serve
- Makes 15
- Dietary
- Pregnancy-friendlyVegetarian
Delia's chocolate brownies are for nut-lovers, loaded as they are with not one, not two, but four types of nuts.
Equipment: You will also need a well greased oblong tin measuring 18x28cm/7x11in, lined with baking parchment, allowing the paper to come 2.5cm/1in above the tin.
Ingredients
- 25g/1oz macadamia nuts
- 25g/1oz Brazil nuts
- 25g/1oz pecan nuts
- 25g/1oz hazelnuts
- 50g/2oz dark chocolate (75 per cent cocoa solids)
- 110g/4oz butter
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 225g/8oz granulated sugar
- 50g/2oz plain flour
- 1 level tsp baking powder
- ¼ level teaspoon salt
Method
Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4.
Begin by chopping the nuts roughly, not too small, then place them on a baking sheet and toast them in a preheated oven for 8 minutes exactly. Please use a timer here otherwise you'll be throwing burned nuts away all day!
While the nuts are cooking, put the chocolate and butter together in a large mixing bowl fitted over a saucepan of barely simmering water, making sure the bowl doesn't touch the water.
Allow the chocolate to melt, then beat it until smooth, remove it from the heat and simply stir in all the other ingredients until thoroughly blended.
Now spread the mixture evenly into the prepared tin and bake on the centre shelf of the oven for 30 minutes or until it's slightly springy in the centre.
Remove the tin from the oven and leave it to cool for 10 minutes before cutting into roughly 15 squares. Then, using a palette knife, transfer the squares on to a wire rack to finish cooling.
