Bestest chocolate brownies

Ingredients:

1. 200gm or 1 cup good quality chocolate - dark (preferably 70% Cocoa)
2. 200gm or 1 cup butter
3. 4 large eggs
4. Zest of 1 orange
5. 100gm or ¾ cup Plan flour
   
6. 1tsp Baking powder
7. 50gm or ½ cup Coco powder (good quality)
8. 170gm or ¾ cup sugar
9. 100gm or half cup walnuts roughly chopped
10. 1tsp salt
    

Method:

1. Start by placing chocolate & butter in a bowl and melt over simmering water.
2. Then in another bowl add eggs, sugar & zest and whisk (with a WHISK not a fork), until pale.
3. Next mix together flour, coco, salt, baking powder then sift* all ingredients
4. Once chocolate and butter has melted, take off and cool for 5 minutes. Next whish in the egg mixture then fold in the flour mixture.
5. Lastly add in the walnuts.
6. Place in cake tin of your choice, lined first with baking paper and bake for around 15 – 20 minutes on 180°c oven.
7. Not to over cook, use a wooden skewer and skewer the center of the brownie, when you remove you should be able to see that the skewer is brown from the brownie, if skewer comes out clean, that would mean its over cooked.
8. In general, a sieve separates unwanted elements from you ingredients using a tool such as a mesh, net or other filtration or distillation methods, but it is also used for classification of powders by particle size, or for size measurement as an analytical technique. The word “sift” derives from this term. A strainer is a type of sieve typically associated with separating liquids from solids.