Ask A Chef: TECHnique's chocolate brownies

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This week: TECHnique's chocolate brownies (Makes 20)

225g butter
400g sugar
10ml vanilla essence
4 (size 7) eggs
80g cocoa
½ tsp baking powder
¼ tsp salt
125g flour
130g chocolate chips

 

Melt butter gently over hot water.
Stir in sugar and vanilla, remove from heat. Beat in eggs one at a time.
Mix together cocoa, baking powder, salt and flour and sieve.
Add flour mixture and chocolate chips to the egg mixture and mix lightly.
Pour into a greased, deep baking pan, 30cm x 23cm and bake at 180degC for 20-25 minutes or until the centre springs back when lightly pressed.
Cool in the baking pan and cut into required shapes, dust with icing sugar and serve with your favourite ice cream and fruit coulis.

Requested by Sharron Mayfield, of Dunedin. Daniel Pfyl of the Otago Polytechnic School of Hospitality has sent us this recipe.

If you have enjoyed a dish in an Otago café or restaurant and would like the recipe, write to Ask a Chef, Features, Otago Daily Times, PO Box 181, Dunedin or email odt.features@odt.co.nz including your name, address and a daytime telephone number and we will request it.