Gordon Ramsay’s World’s Best Brownies

Ingredients

• 245g dark chocolate, broken into squares or roughly chopped
• 200g butter, diced, plus extra for greasing
• 175g caster sugar (superfine sugar or bakers sugar)
• 125g light brown sugar
• 4 large eggs, lightly beaten
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 115g all-purpose flour
• Pinch of sea salt
• 100g dark chocolate, chopped into small chunks (optional)

Preparation

1. Preheat oven to 350°F and grease and line a 9×13-inch baking pan with parchment paper.
2. Add chocolate and butter to a large heatproof bowl set over a pan of gently simmering water, but do not let the bottom of the bowl touch the water underneath. Stir occasionally until melted.
3. Remove from heat and cool the chocolate down by whisking in both sugars. Add eggs and vanilla and mix in with a wooden spoon until combined.
4. Sift the flour and salt over the top and stir again until smooth and combined. Pour into the prepared pan, smoothing out the top with a rubber spatula.
5. Bake until cracked around the edges and soft in the middle, 35–40 minutes, rotating the pan halfway through baking.
6. If you are adding the chocolate chunks, take the brownies out of the oven at 20 minutes and vigorously throw the chunks of chocolate into the half-baked brownies so they break the surface. Return to oven for remaining baking time.
7. Transfer brownies to a wire rack and let cool in the pan, then cut into squares before serving.