• 187g unsalted butter
• 187g best dark chocolate – I used Green & Blacks
• 3 large eggs
• half tablespoon vanilla extract (a snip at £5.30 a tiny bottle!)
• 250g caster sugar
• 112g sifted plain flour (Basics – I know where to cut corners. On this, not the chocolate.)
• half tsp salt
• 150g of chopped walnuts – except I didn’t use walnuts, I used 150g of my home-made granola. I had the walnuts ready to go in, but I just chucked the cereal in at the last minute instead, on a whim. This was a very happy decision.

Heat oven to 180˚C. Line the tray with baking parchment.

Melt the butter and chocolate in a heavy-bottomed pan.

Beat the eggs in a bowl with the sugar and vanilla.

Measure the flour in a separate bowl and add the salt.

Let the melted chocolate and butter mix cool a little, beat in the eggs & sugar. Then add the flour and the nuts or cereal, beat until smooth and pour in your lined tray.

Bake for about 25 minutes – it needs to be mottled on top but still a bit gooey in the middle, so keep an eye on it. Nobody likes a dry brownie, everyone loves a moist one. The fruit and oats in the granola provide a perfect counterpoint to the soft brownies. They turned out even better than these.

Nom, nom, nom.

• 190g unsalted butter
• 190g good quality dark chocolate
• 3 large eggs
• teaspoon vanilla extract
• 250g caster sugar
• 110g plain flour, sifted
• half tsp salt
• some chunks of white chocolate – preferably Green & Black’s White Organic.

Heat oven to 180 C.

Melt butter & chocolate slowly in a saucepan.

Beat the eggs, sugar & vanilla together in a large bowl. Let the melted choc mixture cool a bit before combining with the eggs & sugar. Whisk together. Then add the flour & salt and whisk into a smooth mixture. Stir in the white chocolate chunks.

Pour into a lined or well-greased tray – I used a rubber Tefal/Jamie Oliver thing that worked a treat. Bake for about 25 mins – checking carefully. You want it a bit gooey in the middle. Leave in baking tray to cool, then cut into slices. Perfect with a splodge of cream on a snowy day, or on their own with coffee.