Gluten-free recipe for 4 - 8 people, takes only 40 mins; recipe has butter, dark chocolate, golden caster sugar, self-raising flour, ground almond, cocoa, xanthan gum, large egg, walnut, butter, cocoa, icing sugar, milk and walnut.
Fudgy chocolate squares
Course: Gluten-free
Servings
4 - 8
servings
Prep time
25 mins
Ingredients
- Dark Chocolate: 200g gluten-free dark chocolate, roughly chopped
- Milk: 2 tbsp milk
- Butter: 200g butter, chopped
- Self Raising Flour: 50g gluten-free self-raising flour blend
- Ground Almond: 50g ground almond
- Golden Caster Sugar: 350g golden caster sugar
- Walnut: 50g walnut, broken or roughly chopped
- Cocoa: 50g cocoa
- Large Egg: 4 large eggs, beaten
- Icing Sugar: 200g icing sugar, sifted
- Xanthan Gum: 1 tsp xanthan gum
Directions
- Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4 and line a 20 x 30cm brownie tin with baking parchment. Tip the butter and chocolate into a non-stick saucepan and melt over a low heat, stirring every now and then, until smooth - take care not to overheat it. Leave to cool.
- Meanwhile, mix the sugar, flour, cocoa and almonds with the xanthan gum. Stir into the chocolate mixture, then beat in the eggs and add the walnuts. Turn the mixture into the tin, level with a spatula and bake for 30-35 mins until firm and just cooked - when tested with a skewer, the crumb should still be a little moist. Cool in the tin.
- To make the icing, melt the butter in a non-stick pan. Stir in the cocoa and cook, stirring, for about 1 min. Add the icing sugar and milk, and beat well. Pour on top of the cooled cake, scatter with the walnuts and lightly press them in. Leave until set, then carefully remove from the tin, strip off the baking parchment and cut into squares. Will keep for several days in a tin.
