Divine Chocolate and Pecan Nut Brownie Recipe

Everyone needs comfort food from time to time; this divine recipe is a little treat to brighten up your day. This scrumptious brownie recipe is tasty, rich and moist. They’re great as a snack or dessert, on their own, topped with ice cream, etc, the possibilities are endless!  This recipe should make nine big brownies or sixteen smaller brownies.

You Will Need:

• Divine 70% Dark Chocolate (or any other chocolate that takes your fancy, if dark chocolate isn’t your thing) – Broken into little pieces – 350g (12 oz)
• Butter for greasing
• Butter for cooking – 250g (9 oz)
• Dark Muscovado Sugar – 250g (9 oz)
• Three large eggs
• Plain flour – 50g (2 oz)
• Baking powder – 1tsp
• Chopped pecan nuts – 75g (3 oz)

Don’t worry if you don’t have everything, here at Ethical Superstore we have many of the ingredients ready for you to stock up on!

Before you begin:

• Make sure your oven is pre-heated to 170°C / 325°F / Gas Mark 3.
• Use butter to grease a 23cm / 9inch shallow cake tin.

How to make your brownies:

• Step One: Add the butter and chocolate to a pan and gently heat, using a wooden spoon stir until melted.

• Step Two: Remove from heat, cool a few minutes.

• Step Three: While the above mixture is cooling, put the sugar and eggs in a large bowl and whisk. Use a hand-held electric mixer and keep whisking until shiny and light. This should take approximately five minutes.

• Step Four: Add the first chocolate mixture to the whisked mixture; tenderly stir in the chocolate mixture using a large metal spoon.

• Step Five: Sieve in the baking powder and flour; fold in alongside the chopped pecan nuts.

• Step Six: Have a tin ready and pour the mixture into the tin. Then bake for 40 to 45 minutes until its firm.

• Step Seven: Place a fine skewer into the middle of the cake, you should see a few crumbs sticking to the skewer. This is to test if the cake is cooked or not.

• Step Eight: Put the tin containing the cake on a wire rack to cool for about an hour then cut into squares. Remove from tin and allow the individual brownies to fully cool on the rack.

• Step Nine: Enjoy your tasty treats!

Have you tried this recipe before? If not, give it a go and let us know what you think!

(Original Recipe: Created by Sue Ashworth for the Divine Blog)