Since I'm always forgetting recipes when I alter them, I thought this would be a good place to write this one down for my benefit as much as anyone else's.

Baked Thursday 1st June 2006
Here are the ingredients as near as I can remember them (I know it was only yesterday, but my memory isn't always super perfect - see above):
150g bar of Green & Black's organic cooking chocolate, broken up
about 40-50 grams organic butter
2.25 cups of organic light brown sugar (can't you tell the original recipe was an American one?)
3 large organic eggs (at least I think they were large)
2 teaspoons vanilla extract (actually, I think I may have used just one - this being one ingredient I forgot to double up)
1 cup organic plain flour + half or one teaspoon baking powder (the original recipe called for self-raising flour, but I hadn't got any).
Half of 125 gram tin of Green & Black's Organic Cocoa, so that would be around 62 grams.
About three handfulls of broken up walnuts.

I gently melted the chocolate and butter together in the microwave. (60% of full power for 30 seconds, stir and then another 30 seconds; stir again.)
Incorporated sugar and sifted cocoa and vanilla extract with balloon hand whisk.
Thoroughly mixed in sifted flour and baking powder (with a spoon).
Mixed in walnuts.
This made a very stiff mixture, which I baked at 150 degrees C in fan oven for 35 minutes. Quite crusty on the outside, but very soft (not runny) in the middle. Firmed up a bit when cooled. Another five minutes in the oven might have been better.

So, there you have it - enough chocolate brownies to feed the neighbourhood for a week. Actually makes about 40 brownies, although it depends how big you make them when you cut them up. I thought there was too much sugar, even though it was less than the original recipe called for, but then as anyone reading me for quite a while might know, I'm not too keen on sweet stuff.

In case you want to use the original recipe:
5 oz semi-sweet chocolate, chopped
Half cup sunflower oil
1.25 cups tightly packed light brown sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
.66 cup of self-raising flour
4 tablespoons cocoa
.75 cup chopped walnuts
4 tablespoons milk chocolate chips.
Bake at 170-180 degrees in ordinary oven.