Source: Nigella Lawson, originally, but I keep going back to the
same website for the recipe year after year!
Notes: I use a large, rectangular pan, lined with baking paper. Personally, I like the brownies better when half the batter is poured into the pan, sprinkled with walnuts, then covered with the rest of the batter. And, I've been told they taste better the next day... not that I keep any around long enough.
375g soft unsalted butter
375g best quality dark chocolate
6 large eggs
1 tbsp vanilla extract
500g caster sugar
225g plain flour
1 tsp salt
300g chopped walnuts (although I never use that much - 250g seems enough!)
- Preheat oven to 180 C
- Line 33 x 23 x 5 1/2 cm baking dish with baking paper
- Melt butter and chocolate together in a large heavy-based saucepan (I prefer to melt in bowl over simmer water, to reduce the chance of burning and for a smoother texture)
- In a bowl beat the eggs with the sugar and vanilla
- Measure the flour into another bowl and add the salt
- When the chocolate mixture has melted, let it cook a bit before beating in the eggs and sugar mixture, and then the nuts and flour
- Beat to combine and then scrape out of the saucepan into the lined brownie pan
- Bake for about 25 minutes - the top should be dried to a paler brown speckle, but the middle still dark, dense and gooey
- Keep checking the brownies as they cook; remember that they will continue to cook as they cool.