KitKat Chocolate Brownies

Your favourite chocolate brownie with a surprise!

KitKat Chocolate Brownies

These baked goodies come to us thanks to Big Sister, Nishtha. And I think they are quite yummy! 

As I arrived home from work one day, Nishtha greeted me with a sudden call of my name: ‘Deepta!’

‘Oh no!’ I thought to myself. ‘What have I done wrong now?’ Big sisters tend to be a little bossy at times, so naturally I was worried. 

Nishtha then pulled out her phone, and showed me a picture of some KitKat Brownies. ‘You HAVE to make these for us', she said, sounding excited.

'Phew!' I thought. 'All she wanted was cake'. No problem. Because I love an excuse to bake.

So with our love of chocolate, I baked these for us as a special treat. They turned out so good that I wanted to show you how to make some of your very own. Here's how. Let me know what you think.

KitKat Chocolate Brownies

Makes 36 small brownies

Adapted from: The Pioneer Woman Cooks (thepioneerwoman.com)

INGREDIENTS:

150g good quality dark chocolate

125g (½ cup) butter

2 tablespoons cocoa powder

½ cup brown sugar

1 tablespoon vanilla essence

3 eggs, beaten

1 cup self-raising flour

1 pack Family Break (150g) KitKat
1 teaspoon icing sugar, for dusting

DIRECTIONS:

1.     Preheat the oven to 180°C. Grease and line a 20 cm square baking tin.

2.     Melt the chocolate and butter in a medium saucepan, over a low heat.

3.     Stir in cocoa powder.

4.     Remove the saucepan from the heat, and stir in the sugar and vanilla essence.  

5.     Pour in the eggs, and then fold in the flour.

6.     Pour ¾ of the batter into the tin, and spread out evenly using a spatula. Line the KitKat fingers on top of the batter. Pour in the remaining ¼ of the batter so that the KitKat fingers are completely covered.

7.     Bake for 30 to 40 minutes at 180°C, or until a toothpick comes out clean, once inserted.

8.     Remove from the baking tin and leave out to cool on a cooling rack.

9.     Dust the icing sugar over the brownies using a fine mesh sieve, and cut into squares.

For variation, replace the KitKat with 100g (½  cup) pecan nuts or walnuts, roughly chopped.