A Chocolaty Snack for Christmas Day

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Ingredients

Serves 6
Brownies

• 1 cup (250 g) butter
  
• 4¼ oz (120 g) dark chocolate
  
• 4 eggs
  
• 1 ½ cups (300g) sugar
  
• 1 1/3 cups (170 g) flour
  
• 5 oz (150 g) cashew nuts
  

Hot chocolate

• 2 1/3 cups dark cocoa powder (Van Houten)
  
• 1 pint (½ liter) cold milk
  
• 4 tbsp vanilla sugar
  
• 1 tsp cornstarch
  
• 1 level tsp ground cinnamon

Preparation

To prepare the ingredients

• Crush the cashew nuts coarsely
  
• Cut the chocolate into small pieces and melt it in a bain-marie or microwave oven
  
• Preheat the oven to 325°F (160°C)
  
• Butter and flour a rectangular cake pan (12 x 10 (30 x 25 cm)
  

Preparation

Brownies

• Away from the heat, add the butter to the bowl containing the melted chocolate and stir to incorporate
  
• Add the eggs, one by one
  
• Pour the sifted flour, cashew nuts and sugar into the chocolate mixture
  
• Stir, and pour into the buttered cake pan
  
• Bake in the oven for 20 minutes
  
• Let it cool down in the cake pan, and then cut into even squares and place them on the serving dish

Hot chocolate

• Mix the milk with 2 tbsp of the vanilla sugar and the cornstarch
  
• Bring to the boil
  
• Mix together the cocoa, rest of the vanilla sugar and ground cinnamon
  
• Trickle the hot milk onto the cocoa, stirring constantly. Heat in the saucepan for 5 to 10 minutes, stirring until the consistency of the liquid is thick and even
  
• Pour into cups and enjoy nice and hot.