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The Eatery chocolate brownie
Ingredients
400g dark chocolate (at least 55% cocoa solids)
325g butter
6 eggs
2 egg yolks
300g caster sugar
50g cocoa
80g plain flour
Method
Heat oven to 180degC fanbakeButter and line 23x33cm baking tin.
Gently melt chocolate and butter and then allow to cool a little.
Whisk the eggs and two egg yolks in mixer until pale.
Fold in melted chocolate.
Sieve in cocoa and flour and fold everything together until evenly mixed.
Pour into tin and bake 25min-35min. Allow to cool in tin.
Cut into 12 and indulge.
Requested by Edna Cruikshank, Middlemarch.
Provided by Aleisha Kirkman and Danielle Burgess, at the Eatery, Stuart St, Dunedin.
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