Nigella Lawson Brownies

From the age of 16, I was known as the 'Brownie Girl' at school because I made the best chocolate brownies. All I did was follow Nigella Lawson's amazing recipe which I will share here. Years on, I still haven't found anything better.

Ingredients:

375 g soft unsalted butter

375 g dark chocolate

6 large eggs

1 tablespoon vanilla extract

500 g caster sugar

225 g plain flour

1 teaspoon salt

300 g chopped walnuts (or other)

Method

1.       Preheat the oven to 180°C.

2.       Line your approximately 33 x 23 x 5 1/2cm roasting dish with foil or baking paper.

3.       Melt the butter and chocolate together in a large glass bowl over a pan of very warm water on the hob.

4.       In a bowl beat the eggs with the sugar and vanilla until it is all blended.

5.       Measure the flour into another bowl and add the salt.

6.       When the chocolate mixture has melted, let it cool a bit before beating in the eggs and sugar mixture, and then the nuts and flour. The nuts can also be replaced with white chocolate buttons, bits of caramel or other additions.

7.       Beat to combine and then scrape out of the saucepan into the lined brownie pan.

8.       Bake for about 25 minutes.

9.       When its’s ready, the top should be dried to a paler brown speckle, but the middle still dark and dense and gooey.

10.   Keep checking the brownies as they cook; remember that they will continue to cook as they cool.

11.   The brownies can be presented afterwards with icing sugar sieved on top.

Recipe altered from: http://www.food.com/recipe/nigella-lawson-brownies-32053