Recipe: best brownies ever

Another recipe modified from Delia... terribly bad for you but irresistible ^_^

What will you need?

Kitchen Stuff:
- a deep baking tin or two
- a pan filled with oiling water
- two large plastic/glass bowls
- wooden spoon
- baking paper

Ingredients:
- 110g butter
- 50g cadburys chocolate
- 50g cadburys chocolate (extra, if you want chocolate brownies)
or
- 50g chopped nuts eg walnuts (if you want nutty brownies)
- 2 eggs
- 225g sugar
- 50g plain flour
- 1tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt

(makes 12-16 brownies)

Preparation about 10 minutes, Cooking time about 30 minutes

Step 1 -- Preheat the oven

Turn on the oven to about 180oC

Step 2 -- Get the ingredients ready

Because melted chocolate gets hard quickly, it's important to get everything ready beforehand. Measure out the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Sift the flour into a large bowl. Add the other dry ingredients you just measured. In a separate bowl, whisk the eggs. Also, chop the other 50g of chocolate or nuts (depending on what you want) finely.

Step 3 -- Melt the chocolate

Boil the water in the pan. Whilst the water is coming the the boil, break up the 50g of chocolate into it's squares, and cut up the butter. Add both to the bowl and place on top of the boiling pan of water. Stir continuously until it's all melted together.

Step 4 -- Combine all the ingredients

Add the melted chocolate to the bowl containing the flour, sugar etc. Fold in everything to mix it together. Add the eggs and mix these in thoroughly too. Don't worry if it looks odd to begin with and doesn't seem to mix. Be persistent with it and it will. Once it's all mixed together add the chocolate or nut pieces and mix again.

Step 5 -- Prepare the trays

Tear a piece of baking paper which is slightly larger than the tray, so that when it's pressed into the tray it comes about an inch above the sides.

Step 6 -- Pour the mixture

Pour the mixture into the tray (or trays), about an inch deep. Put the tray into the oven, and cook for 30 minutes, until it shrinks away from the sides of the tin.

Step 7 -- Enjoy!

Remove the brownies from the oven. Lift up the brownies carefully by the baking paper and place this onto a wire rack. After they've cooled for about 15 minutes, cut into small squares and leave for a further 15 minutes.

Eat and enjoy ^_^