Let me say right off the bat that these beauties demand an extortionate amount of butter and chocolate to be melted together in a pan. When not one, but two packets of butter have to be opened and no less than FOUR bars of chocolate... we know we're in for a treat.
Not to mention a whole packet of caster sugar. If you're trying for weight loss and healthy goodness this January you may just wish to scroll on by! If not, here it is, a modified Nigella recipe:
Ingredients:
375g butter
375g dark chocolate 85% (70 will do but no less)
6 large eggs
500g caster sugar
225g plain flour
1 tablespoon vanilla essence
1/2 teaspoon salt
100g chopped dates
Method:
Line a shallow baking tray with kitchen paper. I use two 9cm square tins.
Heat the oven to 180c fan oven gas mark 6
Melt the chocolate and butter together in a bowl above a pan of water on the hob
Add salt to the flour
Whisk the vanilla essence into a jug with the eggs and add the sugar to this.
When the chocolate and butter have melted and cooled a little, add them to the eggs and combine
Add this liquid loveliness to the flour and stir together.
Stir in the dates
Pour into your trays
Bake for 25 minutes
If you test for 'doneness' as you would a cake, the knife should come out rather stuck woth gooey mixture, which for a cake, would require further cooking, but in this case, does not!
I bring them out and with my knife I cut the squares right there in the tray. Then I place a cooling rack on top and turn the whole thing upsideown. I remove the baking tray, but leave the paper still clinging for a while.
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