Brownies

Chocolate

Preheat the oven to 180 °C. Break up the chocolate, put it in a bowl with the butter and melt over a water bath, stirring, until smooth. Let it cool for 5 minutes.

Eggs

Whisk the eggs with the sugar for 2–3 minutes until pale and fluffy.

Dough

Pour the warm chocolate into the eggs and mix. Sift the flour, cocoa and salt over the top and gently fold in with a spatula until no dry streaks remain.

Nuts

Roughly chop the walnuts and fold them into the batter.

Mold

Scrape the batter into a 20 × 20 cm pan lined with baking paper and level it.

Oven

Bake at 180 °C for 25 minutes. A skewer inserted in the centre should come out with moist crumbs but no wet batter.

Better slightly underbaked than dry: the brownies keep cooking as they cool in the pan.

Chopping

Let the brownies cool in the pan for at least an hour, then cut into squares. Done!