Chocolate brownies

I’ve never really been a baker or would say I had a massive thing for cakes. However when at work I would sometimes enjoy some cake or a biscuit with my afternoon cup of tea. Working from home during lockdown I’ve started to make my afternoon sweet treats and this recipe is my take of a combination of two Mary Berry brownie recipes.

Ingredients:
275g butter
375g caster sugar
4 eggs
75g cocoa powder
100g self-raising flour
100g of chocolate chips/crumbs
150g walnut pieces

Method:
Grease a 30 x 23 x 4cm tin and line with baking parchment.
Pre-heat the oven to Gas Mark 4 (180C).
Measure out all the ingredients except the walnuts and mix with a handheld mixer or food mixer, then add the walnut pieces.
Spoon the mixture into the tin, spreading evenly to each corner and levelling the top.
Bake for 40 to 45 minutes until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean and the brownies have a crusty top (if you are worried the top is browning too quickly you can cover with foil for the last 5 to 10 minutes).
Allow the brownies to cool in the tin and then cut into squares.

My tips:
As I have a Magmix I used this to roughly chop 100g of white and milk chocolate before mixing all the other ingredients.
Again as I was using the Magmix to combine the ingredients I added the walnuts whole to the mixture at the end to be chopped up.