Pick Up Chocolate Brownies
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Serves: 9
 
Ingredients
  • 225g unsalted butter, softened
  • 200g caster sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • 50g good quality milk chocolate
  • 50g good quality dark chocolate
  • 4tsp hot chocolate powder
  • 4tbsp warm milk
  • 100g self raising flour
  • 100g cocoa powder
  • 5 Pick Up biscuits, cut in half (you will only need 8 - so you can eat the 9th one as a cooks perk!)
  • 200g milk chocolate, melted
  • 1 x bag of Cadbury Curly Wurly Squirlies (optional)
Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to 180C/160C (fan)
  2. Grease and line a large brownie sized square cake tin with non-stick baking parchment.
  3. Dissolve the hot chocolate powder in 4 tablespoons of warm milk and leave to one side
  4. In a bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy.
  5. Add the eggs and beat well
  6. In food processor add the chocolate and blitz to chop to make smaller pieces .
  7. Add the chocolate into the butter and egg mixture and mix
  8. Add the milky chocolate drink and mix again
  9. Add the flour and cocoa powder and mix well
  10. Pour the half of the brownie batter into the prepared tin , then add 8 of the Pick Up biscuit halves onto the top the batter
  11. Pour over the remaining brownie batter and smooth over.
  12. Bake in the oven for 35-40 minutes. The brownie should have a slight wobble and the top a slight crust
  13. Allow to cool in the tin completely, then place on a wire rack to cool.
  14. I added some melted chocolate onto the top of my cold brownie and then topped with some of the Cadbury Curly Wurly Squirlies
  15. leave to cool and then cut into squares.
  16. Cut into squares or rectangular slices and top each one with a walnut piece if you want to.
Recipe by Mummy Mishaps at http://www.mummymishaps.co.uk/2017/08/pick-up-chocolate-brownies.html