Boston Brownies

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 75 g butter
• 50 g chocolate (no more then 70% cocoa)
• 175 g vanilla sugar (you can scent caster sugar by spliting a vanilla pod and poping into your sugar jar for a few weeks)
• 75 g self raising flour
• 1 pinch salt
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 50 g walnuts, roughly chopped (optional)

Recipe

• 1 prehaet oven to 180oc 160oc for fan.
• 2 grease a 7in sandwish tin or a swiss roll tray works well and line with baking paper.
• 3 in a bowl add the butter and chocolate and melt over a pan of simmering water.
• 4 once melted add the sugar and stir to combined remove the bowl from the heat.
• 5 sift the flour and the salt in to the chocolate mixture add the beaten eggs and vanilla.
• 6 with a wooden spoon beat the brownie mix until you have a smooth batter.
• 7 stir in the walnuts if using pour into the prepared tin and bake for 20-30 minutes (i suggest you check the brownies after 20 minutes) the brownies should look risen and just cracking on top.
• 8 remove from the oven place on a wire rack to cool in the tin when they are just warm remove from the tin peel back the paper and cut into bars (at this stage they should have a crispy top) they can be served just warm or left to go cold.