This recipe originally aired as "Bonfire Brownies" on Blue Peter in the early 00s.
Makes 12.
Oven: 180°C
Bake: 20-25 minutes
Ingredients
100g unsalted butter
225g caster sugar
40g cocoa powder
2 eggs
50g self-raising flour
Or 50g plain flour + 2/3 tsp baking powder
50g chocolate chips (optional)
1/2 tsp vanilla essence (optional)
Method
Preheat the oven to 180°C. Grease and line a 20cm square brownie tin.
In a large bowl beat the eggs, add the sugar and mix together until smooth.
Melt the butter in a small saucepan over a medium heat. Sift in the
cocoa powder and mix. Add this mixture along with the vanilla essence
to the egg and sugar mixture.
Sift the flour into the wet ingredients and mix together until smooth.
Fold in the chocolate chips.
Pour into the brownie tin, and put in the oven. Cook for around 20-25 mins,
until the top is a darker brown (but watch it doesn't burn!).
Leave to cool in the tin for 5-10 mins, then carefully turn out onto a
cooling rack. For best results, wait until they're completely cooled to slice.