Warm Chocolate Orange Brownie Dessert

Today's post is a dessert recipe for Warm Chocolate Orange Brownie Dessert. 

I don't often make dessert when we have guests, mainly because I don't feel that inspired about what to make. Don't get me wrong, I love a dessert. It's just that I would always choose a starter over a dessert given the option! If I am having dessert, I often choose some kind of molten chocolate thing, or a chocolate brownie concoction. All that squidgy, delicious chocolatey goodness, topped off with some ice-cream, is right up my street!

So, today, I thought I would give this idea a try with chocolate orange flavours. The essence of a good warm brownie dessert is in the previously mentioned squidginess. To get that, you need lots of moisture- melted butter, melted chocolate and eggs are usually the combo that will get you there. Add orange curd to that and you got chocolate orange yumminess!

Timing is pretty important with this Warm Brownie Dessert; you want it to be just a little runny at the bottom. Cook it too long and you'll get a chocolate sponge, cook it too little and you'll have a lot of raw batter at the bottom. I like it somewhere in between. If you shave a few minutes off my timing, you'll get more sauce at the bottom.

I highly recommend serving Chocolate Orange Brownie Dessert with ice-cream, cream or some creme fraiche- something to cut through the sweetness. Depending on what you call a dessert portion, you can get around 6 servings out of the ingredients, 4 if you like a nice, big bowl!

Make Warm Chocolate Orange Brownie Dessert

For a printable recipe, click here: Warm Chocolate Orange Brownie Dessert

Ingredients
(serves 6)

200g butter
225g caster sugar
4 eggs
100g dark chocolate
80g plain flour
1 tbsp cocoa powder
3 tbsp orange curd


Method

1) Melt the butter and chocolate in a large saucepan on a low heat. Stir regularly to make sure the chocolate doesn't stick.
2) When melted and well-combined, take off the heat and stir in all the sugar.
3) Whisk the eggs really well in a separate bowl.
4) Tip some egg mixture in and stir really well. Tip some more in, stir really well and keep repeating until the egg mixture is all mixed in. You will have a lovely glossy, gloopy mixture at this point.
5) Add the orange curd and stir well until there are only small lumps of it left visible.
6) Sift in the cocoa and the plain flour and stir as vigorously as you can with a wooden spoon until everything is well combined.
7) Tip all the mixture into a ceramic dish. I used one measuring 
8) Pop in the oven at 180 (170 fan, gas mark 4) for 30 minutes and you should have perfect sponge/sauce ratio. everyone's oven is different though, so I would be checking from 25 mins with a sharp knife.
9) Serve warm with some ice cream, cream or creme fraiche.