I don’t know about you but we have a lot of chocolate in our house at the moment. I know it’s not a terrible problem to have – particularly when I have several Easter eggs to snack on while feeding my youngest – but we decided to get creative and make some gooey delicious brownies with some of our supplies.
Brownie ingredients
- 185g butter
- 185g chocolate, broken into chunks – we used Easter egg chocolate for this
- 3 medium eggs
- 275g caster sugar
- 85g plain flour
- 40g cocoa powder
- A selection of small eggs for decoration, we used 5 Cadbury Creme Eggs, cut in half and a sharer bag of Mini Eggs, broken up
Brownie method
- Preheat the oven to 180C (160C fan).
- Melt the butter and chocolate in a heatproof bowl over a pan of simmering water. Set aside to cool.
- Grease and line a 20cm square baking tin with butter and baking paper. We used a silicone mould as this made the brownie easier to turn out.
- Using an electric whisk, mix the eggs and caster sugar together for approximately 5 minutes, or until the mixture is thick and creamy.
- Gently fold the chocolate mixture and egg mixture together, taking care not to mix out the air you’ve added from the whisking process.
- Sieve the flour and cocoa powder into the wet mixture and fold gentle until just combined.
- Pour the mixture into the baking tin and bake in the oven for 25 minutes.
- Carefully remove the tin from the oven and use your smaller egg selection to decorate – press the Creme Egg halves down slightly, cut side up (caramel filled eggs would work well here too) and scatter over the broken up Mini Eggs.
- Return the tin to the oven for a further 5 minutes.
- Once baked, leave to cool completely in the tin then place in the fridge to firm up for at least an hour.
- Remove from the tin and cut into squares to serve. Enjoy those brownies!
For more ideas for your leftover Easter chocolate, head to BBC Good Food.
About the author
Jen Dowding
Franchise owner and instructor for Basking Babies Laindon & Orsett. Admin & Marketing Assistant for Basking Babies UK.