Auntie Ann’s Chocolate Brownies
Shared by Aine · 4 November 2026
The story behind the recipe
My auntie shared this special recipe with us, because waiting all year for the next family gathering had become too long of a wait! And with a big family you never knew if you where guaranteed a bite.
- Aine
Ingredients
-225g butter - 200g chocolate (I usually use the blue milk chocolate bar from Aldi) - 275g soft light brown sugar - 4 eggs - 1 tsp pure vanilla extract - 110g plain flour - 30g cocoa powder - 1 tsp baking powder
Method
1.Preheat the oven to 180 ͦ C. Grease and line a cake tin/dish (mine is an enamel dish about 11”x7.5”) with grease proof paper, making sure the paper comes up the sides of the tin. 2. Put the butter, chocolate and sugar into a large heatproof bowl and set over a saucepan of warm water. 3. Let the butter and chocolate melt, stirring occasionally. Remove the bowl from the saucepan and leave to cool. 4. Whisk the eggs and vanilla together until light and fluffy. 5. Whisk the egg mixture into the cooled melted chocolate. 6. Sift the flour, cocoa and baking powder onto the chocolate mixture and fold it in. 7. Pour into the prepared tin and bake for 30-35 minutes. (For a fudgy brownie, cook for 30 minutes. (When you push a skewer into the mixture, soft batter will stick to it.) For a more cakey brownie, cook for 35 minutes (Soft crumbs will stick to the skewer)) 8. Leave in the dish to cool completely. You will be able to lift out then with the greaseproof paper and cut up into squares.