Festive Chocolate Brownie

Ingredients

• 1/4 cup brandy
• 1 cup Tasti fruit mix
• 150g dark chocolate, roughly chopped
• 150g butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 70g packet Tasti Blanched almonds, lightly toasted and roughly chopped
• 1/4 cup Tasti chopped crystalised ginger
• 100g flour
• 2 tablespoons cocoa

Method

Preheat the oven to 160 C.
Line a 30x18cm slice tin.
Heat the brandy in a small saucepan until starting to boil.  Remove from the heat and add the fruit mix, stir to combine and then set aside.
Place the chocolate and butter into a bowl and heat over a small saucepan of simmering water until just melted.  Stir until smooth.
In a mixing bowl beat the eggs and sugar until pale and creamy,  mix in the chocolate and butter mixture and then stir through the fruit, almonds, ginger and combined flour and cocoa.
Bake for 45 minutes until the top has a firm crust and starts to crack a little.
Cool before slicing.