Easter Egg Brownies
Creme Eggs seem to be dominating the Easter food scene this year, so this is a recipe to give Mini Eggs their moment in the spotlight. I've bought at least a bag a week since they appeared in the shops in late January - the bite sized, crunchy shelled eggs are just too addictive. When you combine pastel coloured chocolate with dark, fudgy chocolate brownies, you're surely onto a winner.
If you need extra incentive to jump up and bake this traybake, the Mini Eggs are baked straight into the brownie, so the middles melt into a little pool of molten chocolate. Drizzling the top with yet more melted chocolate may seem excessive, but hey, it's Easter, so it's allowed.
This is my fudgiest, chewiest, richest brownie recipe that makes shiny topped brownies every time. You can add all kind of Easter chocolate to the top instead of Mini Eggs, but if they don't have a sugar shell (like Creme Eggs or caramel filled eggs) I'd recommend pushing them in halfway through the cooking time.
Easter Egg Brownies
Makes 24 squares
Ingredients
150g light brown sugar
225g caster sugar
225g butter
150g dark chocolate, chopped
3 eggs
125g plain flour
75g cocoa powder
Method
1. Preheat the oven to 200°C/180°C fan/gas 6 and line a 20 x 30cm tin with baking parchment.
2. Put the sugars and butter into a large saucepan and heat on medium until the butter has melted. Simmer the mixture for five minutes to allow the sugar to begin to melt, stirring all the time. Remove from the heat.
3. Add the chopped dark chocolate to the warm sugar and butter mixture and stir it in until it is completely melted. Leave to cool to room temperature.
4. When the mixture is cool enough to touch comfortably, beat in the eggs. Add the flour and cocoa powder before stirring briefly to combine. You don’t want to overbeat the mixture or your brownies will become too ‘cakey’.
5. Scrape the mixture into the prepared tin and sprinkle over the mini eggs. Bake for 20–25 minutes or until the top is shiny and slightly cracked. Drizzle with melted white chocolate and cut into squares.
