Scrumptious Salted Caramel Brownies

Autumn and Winter are my favourite seasons - I love the cold nights, warm layers and falling leaves. What I also love is chocolate. Both of these things got me in the mood to bake some chocolate brownies.

I have used a recipe for brownies from the book Mary Berry's 100 Cakes and Bakes, but have edited it to suit my own tastes and baking equipment. I have also twisted the recipe by adding salted caramel flavouring to further the sweetness and to make them feel more wintery.

MY RECIPE

INGREDIENTS

100g self-raising flour

2 large eggs

325g caster sugar

100g butter softened

25g cocoa powder

100g 70% dark chocolate chopped

1 capsule of salted caramel flavouring (optional) (I used the lid of the bottle)

METHOD

1) Preheat the oven to 180C/Fan 160C/Gas Mark 4.

2) Measure all the ingredients into a medium sized bowl and mix with a hand-held electric mixer until evenly blended. I measured and put in the dry ingredients first and then added the wet ingredients. I added the salted caramel flavouring last.

3) Sppon the mixture into a traybake tin and spread it into the corners and level the mixture so that the cake is even and within the whole tray. If you want to, you can prepare the tray by greasing it and using some baking parchment but i decided not to do this.

4) Bake for 25-30 minutes until the brownie has a crisp topping but is gooey in the middle. If you want it to be more gooey on top bake for less time and if you want the whole brownie to be crisp leave it in the oven for longer. Allow to cool in the tin once out and then cut into how many squares you want - I managed to cut mine into eight big squares but it could have been cut into more smaller pieces.

Enjoy!

Beth x

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