Gooey Chocolate Brownie Recipe

Hey guys! Today is a slightly different post to my normal beauty related ones, and it is my gooey chocolate brownie recipe! I have been using this recipe for about five years, because it is by far the best one I've tried, so I thought I would share it with you all.

This is one of the quickest and easiest things to make, plus they taste amazing which is the important thing! I also think that they would be great for this time of year if you want to have some treats to have with your family or friends, without spending a lot of money. They would be lovely little presents aswell!

The ingredients that you will need are:

100g of dark/milk chocolate

150g of butter

125g of plain flour

15g of unsweetened cocoa powder

A pinch of salt

Half a teaspoon of baking powder

2 eggs

300g of dark brown sugar. You can use whatever sugar you want, but I find dark brown sugar gives it a nicer texture!

1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

Up to 100g of pecans. Although you can use whatever nuts/extras you want instead (you could even use chocolate chips if you like things extra chocolatey) and this bit isn't vital so you can leave the brownies plain!

First of all you will need to preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius, and line a tin (approximately 20cm by 15cm) with baking paper! Now you will need to put the broken up chocolate and butter in a microwaveable bowl. I prefer to melt this in the microwave, however you could cook it over a bain marie, I just like this way more as it is quicker and cleaner. The way I melt this is in twenty second "slots", for example I put the microwave on full power for twenty seconds, stir it and repeat. Once you see a few little lumps of the chocolate left, stop! You can normally stir these in to melt them, but if needs be just put the bowl back in the microwave for ten seconds. When that is done put the bowl aside.

In a new bowl you will then need to sieve all of the flour, baking powder, salt and cocoa powder together! Then put that bowl aside aswell.

The next step is to crack the two eggs into a new, large bowl, add the vanilla extract and whisk them together with a fork until frothy and combined. Then add all of the brown sugar and again whisk them together with the fork! You will want to keep whisking the sugar in until there are no lumps left and it is completely combined.

This is where the mixture begins to take place! You want to gently fold the melted, slightly warm chocolate into the egg and sugar mixture with a silicone spatula until all of the chocolate is mixed in.  Next you want to do the same thing, but with the flour mixture and nuts/whatever extra you want to use! You don't want any of the flour showing, so if you can see any you know to keep folding the mixture.

Then get the baking tin, pour the mixture into the it and level it out! A trick I find to get it level is lightly wet your hand (this stops the mixture sticking to your hand), and gently pat the mixture down. When that is done pop the tin in the oven for around 25 minutes or until you put a skewer in it and it comes out pretty much clean! Don't worry if there is a bit of the mixture on the skewer, the brownies harden up and continue cooking slightly when they are out of the oven.

I like to leave these for 5 minutes or so after I take them out the oven, which helps to allow them to cool and harden up a bit. After that time take the liner out of tin and cut the brownies up! That is all you need to do to make these lovely, gooey chocolate brownies! I hope that it is of use to somebody, so please let me know if you decide to make them and how they turned out. Enjoy!

Would you like me to do more recipe posts like this in the future?