Volunteer recipe: Double Chocolate Brownies

This recipe is from our chocolate loving German volunteer Sabrina Kerz.

INGREDIENTS

For the brownies:

• 1kg dark chocolate
• 600g butter
• 400g sugar
• 2 small packages of vanilla sugar
• 2 pinches of salt
• 10 eggs
• 400g flour
• 100g food starch
• 2tsps baking powder

For the cream:

• 250g butter
• 1 package of vanilla pudding + ingredients mentioned on the package
• 50g sugar

INSTRUCTIONS

• Preheat the oven on 180°C
• Cut and melt the chocolate with the butter. One possibility is to put the chocolate and butter in a bowl and put it on top of a pot with hot water. The other option is to melt smaller quantities in a glass bowl in the microwave. But be careful to use not the full power (20%) and check in the beginning every 30s and then every 10s. The chocolate should not get too hot, so stop as soon as it is molten!
• When everything is well mixed add slowly flour, food starch and baking powder. Be careful to mix especially
• slowly in the beginning.
• Put everything on a baking tray with baking paper. Put in the preheated oven for around 30min.
• !!! Do not leave in too long, otherwise the Brownies get to dry!!!
• Cook the vanilla pudding as described on the package but add 50g of sugar
• Leave the pudding and brownies to cool down completely
• Start beating the butter. Important: it should be at room temperature! Add step by step the vanilla pudding and keep beating until it is creamy.
• Put the butter cream on top of the brownies, cut them into pieces and your most amazing brownies are finished.