Walnuts and Chocolate Chip Brownies

Makes about 16 slices, 2x2 inches each.

Ingredients

Unsalted butter - 110 g (can be cold from fridge)

Semi-sweet chocolate - 5 oz / 150 g (chopped up)

Eggs - 3

Caster sugar - 170 g

Cocoa powder - 2 tbsp / 15 g

Plain flour - 100 g

Vanilla extract - 1 tsp

Salt - 1/4 tsp

Semi-sweet chocolate chips - 50 g

Walnuts - 60 g (chopped up)

Method

- Pre-heat the oven to 180 deg celsius.

- Melt the butter and chocolate bar over a pan of boiling water. I use a big metal bowl (those metallic one). 

- Remove from heat source and using a whisk, mix well.

- Stir in the sugar and cocoa powder. Next, add in the vanilla essence and the eggs, one at a time.

- Using a spatula, mix in the flour and salt. 

- Stir in the chocolate chips and walnuts the last. 

- Pour into a 8-inch square pan that is greased at the side and with greaseproof paper at base of pan.

- Bake in oven for about 25 minutes. 

- Do not overbake, a skewer inserted in the centre should come up abit moist. If it comes up totally clean, it's overbaked!

- Remove from oven, serve warm or cool with vanilla ice cream. 

Remarks

- If you do not like it too sweet, you can omit the chocolate chips and add more walnuts.

- For plain brownies, omit the chocolate chips and walnuts altogether.

- Use good / premium chocolate and cocoa powder as it'll affect the taste of your brownies. I used Hershey's baking bar (i mixed 4 oz of semi-sweet with 1 oz of unsweetened) and Hershey's cocoa powder.