Spicy Sweet: Chocolate Chilli Brownies Recipe

When people think of spices, the majority will think of curries and other savoury meals; when actually spices work incredibly well in sweets – and we’re not just talking about Indian sweets either. A little bit of heat from your favourite spices can make all the difference in a dessert; and they go hand in hand with dark chocolate. As proud suppliers of Indian spices online we want to change the way people think about spice, so let us introduce you to a great recipe for spicy sweet deserts; Chocolate Chilli Brownies.

Chocolate Chilli Brownies

The combination of Dark chocolate and chilli is simply a match made in heaven. The bitterness of the chocolate together with the heat of the chilli is utterly divine. This recipe takes the traditional brownie recipe and adds an exciting twist with the addition of not one but two spices; chilli and cinnamon. So get your apron on and let’s begin to make this highly- indulgent, bitter-sweet desert.

Ingredients

·150g butter

·175g caster sugar

·2 eggs

·4 heaped tsp cocoa powder

·75g dark chocolate, melted (no less than 72% cocoa)

·3/4 tsp chilli powder (can be more or less depending on how spicy you want the brownies to be)

·3 tsp cinnamon

·1/2 tsp honey

·150g plain flour

·Chilli flakes (for decoration)

·Icing sugar (for decoration)

·Vanilla Ice cream (for side dish with brownie)

Method

1. Preheat the oven to Gas Mark 5/180C and grease a medium square tin.

2. Mix the butter, sugar, chilli powder, cinnamon and honey in a large mixing bowl until it has a smooth consistency.

3. Melt the chocolate in a heatproof bowl over a pan of simmering water. Make sure that the bottom of the bowl does not touch the water. (If you have a more preferable way of melting chocolate that is fine)

4. Add the melted chocolate to the mixture and beat the eggs in one at a time.

5. Carefully fold in the flour and cocoa powder. Pour the mixture into the pre-greased brownie tin and then place in the oven to cook for 40mins or until firm.

6. Leave to cool in the tin and then cut into squares.

7. Decorate with chilli flakes and/or icing sugar.

8. Enjoy the brownies either by themselves or with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

We love this recipe and we’re sure that you will too! There are many more spicy sweet desserts that you can enjoy from spiced pepper vanilla ice cream to gingerbread. Make sure that you keep popping back to the spicy blog for more exciting recipes and spice advice!