Brownies with Homemade Creme Egg
Ingredients
For the brownies:
- 250g Novibloc Fondente Dark Chocolate
- 200g sugar
- 120g plain all-purpose flour
- 120g Stork Baking Block
- 4 Le Naturelle eggs
- 1tsp vanilla essence
- 1/2 tsp salt
For the homemade creme eggs:
- 150g Novibloc (Dark or Milk chocolate)
- 100g Emborg Cream Cheese
- 40g Elmlea Double Cream
- Zest of 1 lemon
- Juice of 1 lemon
- 100g caster sugar
- 50gs tork butter
- 2 Le Naturelle eggs
- Cornstarch (optional)
Method
- Preheat the oven at 180°C.
- Melt the butter and Novibloc chocolate using a bain-marie.
- Set aside to cool and add in the sugar. Whisk until blended.
- Add the eggs (one at a time). Continue whisking.
- Add the vanilla essence, salt and fold in the flour.
- When properly blended, pour mixture into a baking pan lined with parchment paper.
- Bake for 30 minutes.
- Whilst the cake is baking, melt the Novibloc chocolate.
- Set in the chocolate egg moulds. When cool, store into the freezer for 15 minutes.
- Whilst the chocolate egg halves are setting in the freezer, mix the double cream and cream cheese and set aside.
- In another bowl, prepare the lemon curd by mixing the lemon zest, lemon juice, sugar and butter using the bain marie method. Stir until butter is melted.
- Whisk in the 2 eggs.
- Whisk for about 10 minutes till texture is thick. Corn starch can be added if desired for extra thickness.
- Remove the chocolate egg shells from the moulds and fill with cream mixture and top with a drop of the lemon curd.
- Freeze for another 5 minutes.
- Slowly press the creme egg halves into the brownies as desired.
- Chill the brownies in the refrigerator and serve cold
Original recipe by OMGFoodMalta.