American Brownies!

Everyone has their own brownie recipe, but I use Delia's (because Delia Smith is amazing. No argument...)

Ingredients
110g butter
50g American unsweetened chocolate or plain dessert chocolate
2 eggs, beaten
225g granulated sugar
50g plain flour
1 tsp baking power
1/4 tsp salt
110g chopped nuts - these can be walnuts, almonds, hazelnuts or Brazils or a mixture (today I used walnuts, almonds and some pecans I had lying around)

Method
Pre-heat the oven to 180C/160C fan

Grease and line a baking tin measuring 18 x 28cm (or use a silicone brownie tray that doesn't need greasing).

First of all melt the butter and the chocolate (broken up into small pieces) together in a basin fitted over simmering water on a low heat). Away from the heat, stir al the other ingredients into the butter and chocolate mixture thoroughly, then spread all this in the lined tin.

Bake in the oven for 30 minutes, until the mixture shows signs of shrinking away from the side of the tin, and the centre feels springy. A skewer inserted in the centre should come out cleanly (but don't overcook - it will firm up as it cools). Then leave the mixture in the tin to cool for 10 minutes before dividing into approximately fifteen squares and transferring them to a wire rack to finish cooling.

 By using a silicone brownie mould, I didn't need to grease or line a tin, which is time consuming and it makes it easier to get the brownie out after baking.

After 10 minutes of cooling, I cut the brownie into rectangles, sprinkled them with icing sugar and swamped them in raspberries (because raspberries are the best berries, fact.)

I'm going to freeze one of my brownie pieces until around two weeks time, when I shall be doing another brownie bake, but next time I am going to try another recipe, by Mary Berry. Can I just get this straight? I ADORE MARY BERRY. She was amazing on The Great British Bake-Off, and want to bake absolutely everything by her.

When I've done the Mary Berry brownie bake, I will compare the two recipes and the brownies and tell you all my ultimate brownie recipe, I'm very excited!!