Rich chocolate brownies meet fresh orange and fragrant thyme in this easy recipe from Bella’s Kitchen, with chunks of milk chocolate throughout.
Ingredients
Makes 15 brownies
- 170g butter, plus extra to grease
- 113g dark chocolate
- 90g castor sugar
- 90g brown sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
- 2 tsp dried thyme
- Zest and juice of 1 orange
- 64g cake wheat flour, sifted
- 43g cocoa powder
- ½ tsp salt
- 130g milk chocolate, chopped
Method
- Preheat the oven to 170°C. Grease a 20 x 20cm square baking tin and line it with baking paper.
- Using a double boiler, melt together the butter and dark chocolate.
- In a mixer with a whisk attachment, whisk together the castor sugar, brown sugar, eggs and vanilla essence until fluffy. Add the thyme, and orange zest and juice, followed by the butter and chocolate mixture, until everything is well combined. Gently fold in the flour, cocoa powder and salt. When fully incorporated, fold in the chopped chocolate. Pour the batter into the prepared tin and bake for 25 minutes.
- Leave to cool, then cut as desired.
Recipe extracted from Bella’s Kitchen, out now.
At its essence, Bella’s Kitchen is a love letter, to those people important in her life, and to herself. Yes it’s a cookbook, but it’s also more than just another book of recipes built around a theme. Isabella Niehaus has written this as a musing on every stage of her life, from her days growing up in the rural Free State, through glamorous globe-trotting fashion editor and loving mother, then successful restaurant host, to the award-winning and beloved author she now is. The beautifully photographed chapters reflect the recipes that best complement this journey (including some from her foodie friends), suitable for every occasion, but delicious, instinctive, adventurous and unique – just like Bella herself.
