CHOCOLATE BROWNIE TORTE

Ingredients....... 185gm of dark eating chocolate, roughly chopped, 45gm of butter/ marg,1 egg lightly beaten, 60gm of castor sugar, 1 tsp of vanilla extract, 30gm of plain flour, 60gm of slivered almonds. Preheat your oven to 180 deg C. Lightly grease and line a 20cm/ 8" round pan. Place 125gm of the chopped chocolate in a small saucepan with the butter/ marg. Heat, stirring over a low heat until until the chocolate and butter have melted and the mixture combined. Beat together the egg, sugar and vanilla extract until thick and creamy. Beat in the melted chocolate mixture. Fold in the flour , slivered almonds and the remaining chopped chocolate. Spoon the mixture into the prepared pan . Bake in the preheated oven for for 20 minutes or until cooked, testing with a skewer inserted and comes out clean. Turn the torte onto a wire rack to cool. The torte can be served hot, warm or cold with ice cream or as you desire.