Chocolate Fudge Brownies is another favourite recipe of mine, and the kids, of course! We all love a chocolate fudge brownie once in a while and that’s what I mean when I say it’s a treat. To be a treat, it’s not every day.
So this recipe makes a delicious treat that can be added to the lunch box on a special occasion.
Chocolate Fudge Brownies
Servings 10
Ingredients
- 300 g butter or margarine
- 4 x large happy eggs
- 400 g caster sugar
- 210 g plain flour
- 2 x teaspoon vanilla essence
- 115 g chopped walnuts or pecans
- 105 g cocoa powder
- Fudgey Icing:
- 50 g butter
- 35 g cocoa powder
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 200 g sifted icing sugar
- Milk to mix
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180C/ 350F/Gas 4
- For the Brownies, melt the butter then the cocoa powder, mix well
- Stir in the sugar
- Beat in the happy eggs one at a time
- Add the Vanilla essence
- Stir in the flour and nuts and mix well
- Pour the mixture into a greased 9inch x 13inch roasting tin/tray
- Bake for 30 minutes until firm
- Whilst Brownies are cooking, make the Icing:
- Melt the butter in a saucepan , add the rest of the dry ingredients and the essence….mix well , slowly add a little milk until you have a spreading consistency
- When the brownie mixture has cooled, spread over the icing
- Cut the cake into squares and enjoy!
We sometimes pop them in the lunch box on a Friday for “Fun Friday”. How about you? Would you pop chocolate into your children’s lunch box or do you prefer to keep treats like this for home?
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