The author and sex educator joins Kevin Dundon and Caoimhe Young in the Under the Grill kitchen to chat about Traffic Light Brownies, her favourite childhood dessert, completed with drizzled chocolate and M&Ms.

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Grace Alice talks about the relationship between sex and food and how the conversation around sex in Ireland has lost the ‘shame factor’.

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But she says children today literally grow up seeing pornography from a young age because of the widespread availability of phones and tablets.

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Grace says: ‘There is ways of bypassing safeguards on phones and even if kids don't have phones, their friends have phones.’

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“There's a lot of explicit stuff, even on the most widely used social media platforms we all use every day.”

In Under the Grill, Ireland’s best loved personalities choose a dish from their childhood and Kevin Dundon cooks it up in his kitchen, alongside Maître d’, Caoimhe Young.

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Fudgy Traffic Light Brownies

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Serves 6

• 100g plain flour

• 60g unsweetened cocoa powder

• ¼ tsp baking powder

• ¼ tsp salt

• 180ml vegetable oil or melted butter

• 150g caster sugar

• 160g brown sugar

• 1 tsp vanilla extract

• 3 eggs

To decorate:

• M&Ms or other

• 2 tbsp icing sugar

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 180C. Grease and line a '9x9x2in' baking tray with baking paper, leaving enough over the edges for easy removal later on.

2. In a bowl, add the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt. Stir and set aside.

3. In a separate bowl, add the brown sugar and caster sugar. Add the oil (or melted butter if preferred) and eggs and mix until smooth and fully combined.

4. Next, sieve over the flour and cocoa powder mix and stir until fully combined, but don’t overmix.

5. Pour the batter into the prepared baking tray and spread evenly.

6. Place in the oven for 25-30 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out a little wet for a softer brownie, or with a few crumbs for a more cakey brownie.

7. Remove from the oven and allow to cool completely for 30-40 minutes. Then, carefully transfer onto a serving platter.

8. Cut the brownie into portions. To decorate, combine the icing sugar with enough water to create a thick paste. Using a dot of paste, stick some M&Ms, or other chocolate of your choice, to the top of the brownies.

9. Store in an airtight container at room temperature and enjoy within five days.

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