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Pecan Brownies

Servings 16

Ingredients

  • 135 g 70% chocolate broken into pieces I use chocolate buttons
  • 200 g castor sugar
  • 185 g butter + extra for greasing
  • 3 Exl eggs whisked together
  • 5 ml vanilla extract
  • 100 g cake flour sifted
  • 160 g chopped and lightly toasted pecans (cooled)

Instructions

Bain Marie (bowl over a pot of hot water)

  • Place a bain marie over boiling water. Add the butter, chocolate and sugar to the bowl. Melt together.
  • Once the choc butter mix has melted, whisk with a hand mixer
  • Continue to whisk while slowly and steadily adding the whisked eggs making sure they don't scramble from the heat of the choc mix Add the vanilla extract
  • Fold in the flour
  • fold in the nuts
  • pour into buttered baking dish and bake for 25 - 30 min
  • These are best eaten on the day. They freeze well too and also enjoy a 20 sec burst in the mircowave to bring out the flavour of the chocolate.
Course: baking
Keyword: Brownies, pecan