Big Sticky Choca-Choca Brownies

Billionaire Brownies or Big Sticky Choca-Choca Brownies

This recipe is in 3 parts, because there are three key stages to making it. Make sure you’ve read it through and know what you need first. *Heath warning* This recipe contains over half a pound of butter and nearly a pound of sugar, never mind the nearly a pound of chocolate! This is not healthy eating recipe so don’t eat them all *Health Warning*

Make sure you have read the recipe and are ready
Pre heat the oven to gas mark 3
Line a tin (8 X 8 or 8 X 12) with baking paper and get ready …

Brownie Layer

7 Oz Unsalted Butter
2 Oz Cocoa Powder
11 Oz Caster Sugar
2 Large, Organic, Free Range Eggs, Beaten
8 Oz Plain Flour
3 1/2 Oz Chocolate (buttons chunks or a smashed up bar)

(Oh I suppose the eggs don’t have to be organic but please get free range, if you use eggs from caged hens not only must you live with yourself but Chickeno the Chicken god will peck you)

Melt the butter (in a small / medium size saucepan)
Stir in the cocoa powder and sugar and mix until smooth (well as smooth as you can get it)
Remove from heat
Stir in the eggs until completely combined
Stir in the plain flour until completely combined, this will take some mixing
Stir in the chocolate pieces
Pour into the prepared tin, shake to level and pop in the oven (at gas mark 3) for around half an hour until firm on top

Take out and leave to cool in its tin ideally for at least half an hour

Caramel Layer

4 Oz Unsalted Butter
3 Oz Caster Sugar
2 Tbs Golden syrup
1 x 379g tin of Condensed Milk
100g Chocolate (buttons chunks or a smashed up bar) or Nuts (optional)

Make sure you are ready! Once you start making caramel you can’t stop, or pause, and be careful because it burns. Also make sure you have condensed milk, not evaporated milk, they are not the same thing (although they do both come in tins). Hazels or pecans toasted make good yummy additions to this layer.

Melt the butter (in yer saucepan)
Reduce the heat and add the condensed milk, sugar and syrup, this mix will be a pale creamy colour, viz:
Stir and do not stop stirring for about half an hour until it goes a dark caramel colour, if you stop it will catch and burn.
Remove from the heat and stir in your optional goodies
Pour on top of the brownie layer and leave to cool

Chocolate layer

7 Oz Chocolate

Bash up your chocolate if it is in a bar and melt over boiling water or in short blasts in a microwave
Pour on top of your caramel layer, leave to cool
Pop in the fridge and leave for a couple of hours to firm up before you cut it up