Cream Egg Brownies

I went through a lot of different tweaks and recipes to get this right and in the end they are super sweet but then so are cream eggs so I went with it.  I did cut them into small squares so not a big portion.

Brownie Base

85g  85% chocolate
115g  unsalted butter
180g  granulated sugar
2  eggs
1 tsp  vanilla essence
1/4 tsp  salt
85g plain flour

Filling

90ml  light corn syrup
42g  unsalted butter - room temp
3/4 tsp  vanilla essence
1/8 tsp salt
375g  icing sugar
orange food colouring

Choc Top

200g  Cadbury's Milk Chocolate
1 tbsp  unsalted butter

Extra

1/2 tbsp  sugar
1/2 tbsp  boiling water

Method

Brownies

Using just the brownie ingredients above.

1. Line and lightly grease an 8 x 8in tin.
2. Melt the chocolate and the butter in a bowl over boiling water.
3. Pour in a mixing bowl and add the sugar.
4. Add the eggs one at once and mix well.
5. Add the vanilla and salt and then stir in the flour.
6. Spread in the pan and bake at 180c for 25 - 35 mins.
7. Cool in the tin and leave in there until these are finished.

Filling

1. Beat the corn syrup, butter and vanilla together.
2. Add the salt and then the icing sugar a little at a time.
3. This gets really thick and takes some brute strength but it needs to be thicker to stand up at room temp.
4. Split off 1/2 of the mixture and add the orange food dye
5. Roll out the white mixture to a thickness of 1/4 in (ish), you will need to dust your counter with extra icing sugar for this.  I used two strips of 1/4in wood as a guide for my rolling pin.
6. Mix the extra sugar and boiling water till dissolved and then brush sparingly on the top of the cold brownie to get the filling to stick.
7. I then cut the white filling into pieces and patched it onto the top as it was a little difficult to handle in one piece for me.
8. Repeat with the orange on top.

Choc Top

1. Melt the chocolate and the butter and then spread on top of the filling and put in the fridge to set.
2. To slice I used a long knife I kept in my vacuum flask of boiling water.  I wiped it each time before I put it back in the water and dried it each time before using it.  I cut these into 16.