Indulgent Dark Chocolate Brownies

 

 

While most of my recipes I write about a health motivated, some are just pure indulgence and make a very special treat.  I was off to visit a friend with her first new baby today and which new mum doesn’t like chocolate!  So I went in search for the best Thermomix Chocolate Brownie and I found it!  This recipe is based on a Thermomix Recipe Community version called "Extreme Brownies", but with a lot less sugar, quality chocolate and a few other tweaks the result was a killer!

Indulgent Dark Chocolate Brownies

300g rapadura or raw sugar

1 tsp baking powder

60g organic cocoa

100g plain flour

200g unsalted butter roughly chopped

Pinch of salt1 tsp coffee granules
200g dark chocolate (70% cocoa - broken into pieces)

3 free range eggs

1 tsp vanilla extract

• Preheat oven to 160C
• Grease and line a 20cm square cake tin and set aside
• Place sugar into Thermomix bowl and mill 4 seconds on speed 9
• Add baking powder, cocoa and flour and mix 5 seconds on speed 9
• Remove from bowl and set aside
• Place butter and salt into bowl and melt for 3 minutes at 60° on speed 2
• Add chocolate, vanilla and coffee and combine for 10 to 15 seconds on speed 4 until roughly combined.  If there are still some small chunks that’s ok as it adds some chocolate chunks to the brownies
• Leave in mixing bowl and allow to cool to 37°
• Add flour mixture and eggs and mix for 10 seconds on speed 3 or until just combined
• Scrape down sides of bowl if required
• Pour mixture into prepared tin and bake for 1 hour or until top appears baked and a skewer comes out with a few crumbs attached
• Allow to cool completely in the tin

Enjoy with even more indulgent cream or ice cream and a sprinkle of raspberries!