Ghoulish Brownies

Halloween is one of my favorite times of year, and also a good excuse to bake some spooky snacks! Brownies are one of my favorite bakes and are so easy to make. However, i'm not very good at decorating my bakes so I came up with an easy way to decorate that still fits in with a halloween theme, perfect for a horror movie night in. 

Ingredients:

85g of plain flour

200g of unsalted butter

275g of caster sugar

3 x regular sized eggs

100g white chocolate

200g of dark chocolate

40g of cocoa.

Optional: Icing and food colouring to decorate

Method:

1. Chop up the 200g of dark chocolate, and place it in a heat proof bowl along with the 200g of butter. Put the bowl on top of a small saucepan filled a quarter of the way with water on the hob, and wait for the butter and chocolate to melt. One it has, put the mixture to one side to cool.

2. Preheat the oven to 160 degrees C. Grease two medium sized tray tins.

3. Chop the white chocolate up into smaller chunks 

4. Break the three eggs into a large mixing bowl and add the sugar. Whisk this mixture (preferable with an electric whisk) until it becomes creamy and light. 

5. Pour the chocolate and butter mixture over the egg/sugar mixture and fold them together making a figure-8 movement. Be careful not to take all the air out of it. 

6. Sieve the flour and cocoa into the mixture and again, fold it in until it has all melded together. Finally stir in the white chocolate chunks.

7. Pour the finished mixture into the two trays and put them in the oven for approximately half an hour. To see if the brownies are done, gently shake the trays and see if the middle wobbles. If it does, it's not quite done.

8. When they have done, take the brownies out of the oven and  leave to cool. When cool, take the brownie out of the tray.

9. Mix up some icing, with icing sugar and water, and if you have it, mix in some food colouring. As it's halloween, I used green icing. 

10. Splatter the brownies with the icing, then cut into smaller squares and eat!