Creme egg brownies! ~ Kittens in Top Hats

Happy Easter everyone and nothing says Happy Easter quite like a decadent day of non stop chocolate eating (and celebrating the rise of Jesus Christ too of course!)

So today being Easter Sunday we had a lazy day at home which was really nice as I'd been working a lot recently so haven't had time to do things that I'd been putting off and hadn't had time to do.

As an Easter treat I decided to make creme egg brownies! I love brownies and I love creme eggs I've never tried the two together but I've seen it everywhere and wanted to give it a go!

Ingredients you will need:

250g unsalted butter

200g dark chocolate

80g cocoa powder

65g plain flour

1tsp baking powder

360g caster sugar

4 large eggs

Creme eggs.

Before starting the cooking, I put the creme eggs I'm going to use in the freezer. It sounds a bit weird but it makes them really hard so they're easier to cut in half when placing them on the brownie mix.

Step one- fill a saucepan half full of water and place a bowl over the top of it making sure the water and the bowl don't come into contact too. This is called a Bahn Marie. This technique can be used to apply a gentle, residual heat to food also without breaking or curdling them.

Step two- Put the butter and chocolate into the bowl. I find it helpful to cube the butter and break the chocolate up into chunks. This just helps it'll melt quicker.

Step three- Whilst the butter and chocolate are melting together I combine all the dry ingredients into the stand mixer.

Step four- Once all the chocolate had melted I poured it into the dry mixture and mixed it all together.

Step five- I add one egg at a time to the mixture until smooth and glossy.

Step six- I pour the mixture into the lined baking tray and grab my creme eggs from the freezer. They aren't frozen they're just quite cold and hard. I cut them down the middle and place them in the batter.