Double Chocolate Brownies (Sprinkled with Love)

It's nearly valentines day. And the best way to show love is with chocolate! A simple brownie recipe that makes fudgey, moreish brownies. 

Ingredients

200g good quality dark chocolate, min 70% cocoa solids

125g unsalted butter

250g caster sugar

3 eggs, beaten

150g plain flour

100g white chocolate chips

30g white chocolate

Heart Sprinkles (available on www.theshirebakery.com)

First, set your oven to 180 degrees, 160 fan or Gas Mark 4. Line a 20cm square tin with baking paper. 

In a bowl, break your chocolate up in small pieces and cube your butter and pop that in the bowl too. 

Melt your chocolate and butter in a glass bowl over a saucepan of boiling water, making sure the water in the saucepan does not touch the base of the bowl. 

It should look like this, super glossy! 

Now stir in your sugar until it looks like so:

It will be grainy, this is supposed to happen. 

Now add your beaten eggs, it does look strange, keep mixing it will come together. 

It may take a while to combine. 

And now add the flour until combined like so: 

Now for the white chocolate chips, mix these in and pour the mixture into your lined tin. 

Now pop into the oven for 20-25 minutes, it should be cooked around the edges and looking slightly underdone in the middle. 

Leave the brownie to cool completely in the tin, which is difficult as it smells delicious! 

When the brownie is cool,take it out of the tin, and melt your white chocolate, I popped mine into the microwave and blasted it for 20 seconds at a time. When melted simply drizzle over the brownie. 

You can be as artistic, or messy as you like! 

Before the chocolate cools, sprinkle over your love (or sprinkles!). Leave to cool and cut! 

Now to share them with your loved one. Or you can just keep them for yourself, love is selfish sometimes!! Enjoy!! Xx