Easy Chocolate Brownie

I have two recipes for Brownies - this is the easy one which you can bang together at very short notice (about 20 mins). This is a John Torode recipe, and I keep going back to it because it takes minimal effort and comes out good every time.

I have no photos of this as it rarely makes it out of the tin without me turning round to find huge swathes of it suddenly missing.

Ingredients:

140g Butter, plus more for greasing

50g  Cocoa

2 medium eggs

225g Caster Sugar

1 Drop of Vanilla Extract

70g Toasted Hazelnuts (optional)

70g Chocolate chunks - whatever you fancy

100g Plain Flour

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 180c/350F/Gas 4.
2. Grease a square (square only if you want even squares of end product - round tins can be used if you want to do 'cake' slices - but in the Crabb house, I find half of it missing before it even cools down) cake tin or baking pan with butter and line with baking parchment.
3. Put the butter in a heavy-based pan with the cocoa and heat VERY GENTLY until the butter melts
4. In a mixing bowl, beat (cream) together the eggs and caster sugar until the mixture turns pale
5. Slowly fold in the butter and cocoa mixture. Add the vanilla extract and stir well. Fold in the chopped nuts and/or chocolate and the flour.
6. Pout the mixture into the prepared baking tin and bake in a preheated oven for 20-25 minutes until just firm to the touch.
7. Leave to cool in the tin - do not turn it out onto a wire rack, then cut it into squares, slices, stick your face in it....