Sluttishly Easy: Chocolate cherry brownies

This is my favourite brownie recipe, but I'll let you into a secret. These brownies are actually the famous Nigel Slater recipe, but with yummy cherry stuff added to it. If you just want normal brownies, just take the cherry bits out! But these are very yummy. The cherry works really well with the dark chocolate.

You'll need these things:

• 300g golden caster sugar
• 250g butter
• 250g Green & Blacks cherry chocolate.
• 3 large eggs plus 1 extra egg yolk
• 60g flour
• 60g finest quality cocoa powder
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• Splash of cherry liqueur

You'll need to do these things:

• Pre-heat the oven to gas mark for (180 degrees) and line a baking tin with greaseproof paper.
• Beat the butter and sugar in a bowl. That's my favourite bit. It's cheating if you use an electric blender, but I approve of cheating.
• Break the chocolate into pieces, but leave 50g to one side. You'll need that later. Melt the larger amount of chocolate.
• Then break the eggs into a bowl and beat them.
• Slowly add the eggs to the butter mixture, stirring as you go along.
• Mix the melted chocolate and the chocolate pieces in with everything else. Splash in the cherry liqueur.
• Sift the flour, cocoa and baking powder, then add to the rest of the mix. Make sure you fold everything well to make sure there's no air trapped.
• Pour the mixture into the cake tin, and then pop in the oven for thirty minutes. They're done when a few crumbs are still stuck on a skewer. Then you can eat them all with cream and don't share them with anyone. No! Mine!

Really, make your own. I'm not sharing.

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