Ingredients
Chocolate Brownies
120 g of butter (chopped)
240 g of dark cooking chocolate (chopped)
100 g of brown sugar
8 eggs (lightly beaten)
75 ml of milk
1 tbsp of instant coffee powder (dissolved in 1 tbsp of hot water)
220 g of plain flour
60 g of cocoa powder
1 tsp of baking soda
100 g of ground almonds/ hazelnuts
80 g of walnuts (toasted, chopped)
60 g of chocolate buttons
Chocolate Ganache
200 ml of fresh whipping cream
500 g of dark cooking chocolate (chopped)
30 g of butter (chopped)
Method
Baking the Chocolate Brownies
- Line and grease a 9" square cake tin. Preheat oven at 180°C. Melt butter and chocolate in a saucepan. Remove from heat. Add in sugar and stir until sugar has melted. Add in eggs, milk and coffee mixture.
- Fold in sieved ingredients and ground almonds or hazelnuts. Stir in walnuts.
- Pour half the batter of mixture from Step 2 into prepared tin and randomly throw in chocolate buttons, pour in another half of the batter. Bake for 50 minutes or until skewer comes out clean when insert to the center of cake.
- Cool cake completely. Pour ganache on cake and decorate with walnuts.
Cut into smaller pieces and serve with a dollop of ice cream.
Making Chocolate Ganache
- Double boil cream until warm. Add in chocolate and butter and stir until it melt.
- Alternately, you can add an extra 100 ml of whipping cream while preparing ganache.
- You will get chocolate sauce instead. Serve with hot cake and a dollop of ice cream at the side.
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