MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06 Title: Hfw Star Anise Chocolate Brownies Categories: Brownies Yield: 12 Brownies 120 g Unsalted butter; cut into -chunks 120 g Dark chocolate, about 70%; -broken into pieces 120 g Caster sugar 100 g Light muscovado sugar 1/2 ts Vanilla extract 2 Eggs 130 g Plain flour 1/2 ts Orange zest; finely grated 1 ts Ground star anise 1 pn Salt; generous Use a coffee grinder or pestle and mortar to grind whole star anise into a fine powder. Preheat the oven to 200°C/400°F/gas mark 6. Butter a 20 cm square brownie tin and line the bottom and two sides with a strip of baking parchment that's long enough to hang over the sides (to make it easier to lift the brownie out of the tin). In a heatproof bowl over a pan of barely simmering water, melt the butter and chocolate, and stir until smooth. Add the sugars, leave for a couple of minutes, then add the vanilla and beat well. Add the eggs one by one, beating well after each addition. Stir in the flour, orange zest, star anise and salt. Pour the mix into the tin, smooth and bake for 20 minutes, until the top is crackled and a toothpick inserted into the middle comes out with a few moist crumbs clinging to it. Plunge the base of the tin into a bowl of iced water to stop it cooking, then leave to cool in the tin for 30 minutes, lift out and finish cooling on a rack. Recipe FROM: MMMMM