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Ingredients


250g dark chocolate (should be at least 70% cocoa solids, it'll tell u in the ingredients)
100g butter softened
Cake tin
200g caster sugar
2 eggs
150 plain flour
1 tsp baking powder

For white choc layer (optional, leave out if u don't want it)
100g white chocolate
350g mascarpone cheese
1 egg yolk
2 tbsp plain flour


Method


1. Grease a 23cm square cake tin. Preheat the oven to 180C/gas 4.

2. For the chocolate brownie mix, gently melt the chocolate in a bowl set over a pan of simmering water and allow it to cool slightly. Meanwhile, put butter and sugar in a mixer and beat together until the mixture is smooth, pale and creamy. Add the eggs one at a time, mixing well after each.

3. Remove the bowl from the mixer and add the cooled, melted chocolate. Sift the flour and baking powder straight into the bowl and gently fold together until evenly combined. Set aside.

4. For the white chocolate layer; gently melt the white chocolate in a bowl set over a pan of simmering water and allow it to cool slightly. Meanwhile whisk mascarpone briefly in the mixer to soften, then add the egg yolk and continue beating until the mixture is smooth and creamy. Add the flour then, with the mixer still running, add the melted white chocolate.

5. Pour about two-thirds of the chocolate brownie mixture into the cake tin. Swirl the white chocolate mixture over the top, gently pushing it into the brownie base as you go.

6. Spoon the remaining third of the chocolate brownie mixture on top, swirling it into the white chocolate layer.

7. Bake for 25-35 mins to give a moist and gooey centre. Leave the cake to cool in the tin, then cut into squares and serve...