Chocolate Brownie With Tea Recipe
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Ingredients
- 1 1/3 cup pitted prunes, chopped
- 200ml hot Madura Assam tea
- 55g plain flour
- 1/4 teaspoons salt
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 300g good quality dark chocolate
- 80g unsalted butter
- 300g caster sugar
- 4 eggs
- 100g sour cream
- 1 cup dark chocolate melts
- Icing sugar to dust
Method
- Place the prunes in a bowl and pour over the brewed Assam tea. Cover and allow to infuse for 24 hours.
- Preheat the oven to 170C(325F). Grease a 20 x 30 x 4 cm rectangular cake tin and line the base and sides with baking paper.
- Sift the flour, cocoa, salt and baking powder in a bowl.
- Put the chocolate, butter and sugar in a stainless steel bowl and sit over a pan of simmering water, making sure the base of the bowl does not touch the water. Stir for 10 minutes until the chocolate has melted. Allow to cool.
- Add eggs one at a time to the chocolate mixture and mix with an electric mixer until well combined.
- Add the flour, sour cream and mix with the mixer.
- Stir in chocolate melts and prunes gently until just combined.
- Spoon mixture into prepared tin and bake in the oven for 1 hour until just set.
- Allow to cool completely in the tin before turning it out.
- Dip knife in hot water, wipe down and cut to make neat squares.
- Dust with icing sugar and enjoy!