Chocolate gingerbread brownie bars with fudgy icing
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Chocolate gingerbread brownie bars with fudgy icing

By Sarah Cook

These luxurious bars are based on a classic flourless cake, so they're rich and light in equal measure

  • Prep:20 mins
    Cook:35 mins
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Nutrition per serving

  • kcal 553
  • fat 36g
  • saturates 19g
  • carbs 51g
  • sugars 49g
  • fibre 2g
  • protein 7g
  • salt 0.6g

Ingredients

  • 400g dark chocolate, broken into chunks
  • 25g cocoa powder
  • 250g golden caster sugar
  • 250g butter
  • 1 tbsp ground ginger
  • 140g ground almonds
  • 6 large eggs, separated
  • 100g butter, cubed
  • 50g dark chocolate, use a bar broken into pieces, or chips
  • 50g cocoa
  • 200g icing sugar, sifted
  • 2 tbsp ground ginger
  • few chunks crystallised ginger, chopped into small pieces

Tip

Serve with a coconut malted drink

Warm 500ml semi-skimmed milk to just under boiling point in a small pan. Whisk 2 tbsp Ovaltine with 2 tbsp malibu until dissolved (use a milk frother if you have one), in your two favourite mugs, top up with the hot milk and enjoy. 

 

500ml semi-skimmed milk to just under boiling point in a small pan. Whisk 2 tbsp Ovaltine with 2 tbsp malibu until dissolved (use a milk frother if you have one), in your two favourite mugs, top up with the hot milk and enjoy. 

Method

  1. Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Grease a 20 x 30cm cake tin, and line the base and sides with baking parchment. Melt the chocolate, cocoa, sugar and butter together in a saucepan over a very low heat. Once the chocolate and butter have melted and sugar dissolved, remove from the heat and stir in the ginger and almonds, followed by the egg yolks, one at a time.

  2. Beat the egg whites to stiff peaks. Using a metal spoon, stir a couple of spoonfuls of the egg whites into the chocolate mixture to loosen before very gently folding in the rest.

  3. Gently scrape into the tin. Bake for 30-35 mins until the top looks set and the centre doesn’t wobble too much. Sit the cake tin on a wire rack and leave to cool completely.

  4. Once cool, make the icing. Put the butter, chocolate, cocoa, icing sugar, ground ginger and 4 tbsp water in a pan. Gently heat, stirring, until you have a smooth icing. Pour over the cake (still in its tin), leave for 1-2 mins to cool slightly, then scatter over the ginger. Cool completely (you can also store in the fridge if you bring out to room temperature about 20 mins before serving) before cutting into bars.

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