Chocolate Brownies

Ingredients:

5oz butter, chopped 4oz dark chocolate, chopped 3 eggs, lightly beaten 12oz caster sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla essence 4oz plain flour 1oz cocoa powder icing sugar to dust

Directions:

Grease a 20cm/8inch square tin with oil or melted butter. Line the base with baking paper, extending over two sides (helps you to lift it out when it's done)

Melt the chocolate and the butter together in a bowl (best way to melt chocolate for cooking is to put it in a heat proof bowl over a pan of boiling water. Don't let the bowl touch the water)

Whisk the eggs, sugar and vanilla together in a large bowl. Add the melted chocolate/butter mix and whisk together. Stir in combined sifted flour and cocoa powder. Do not overbeat.

Pour into the tin and bake for 40 mins at 180C. Leave to cool in the tin. Lift out, cut into squares and dust with icing sugar. Or you can just serve it in dishes as a chocolate fudge cake type thing. With custard.