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Chocolate Brownies
Servings: 36
Ingredients:
- 4 large eggs (8 oz.)
- 1 cup sugar (≈210g)
- 1 cup brown sugar (≈200g)
- 8 ounces (2 sticks) melted butter
(barely melted. More than 30, but
less than 60 sec. (50 sec?) in the microwave from fridge temp. 1 minute at power “8”)
- 1¼ cups sifted Duch process cocoa, (e.g. Hershey Special Dark) (≈ 4¼ oz / 120g)
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- ½ cup flour, sifted (≈ 2½ oz / 70g)
- ½ teaspoon salt
Instructions:
- Preheat the oven to 325°.
- Butter and flour an 8-inch square pan. (spray oil/flour works great!)
- In a mixer fitted with a whisk attachment, beat the eggs at medium
speed (“4” on my KitchenAid, about 6 minutes) until fluffy and light yellow.
- Add both sugars.
- Add melted butter
- Add remaining ingredients, and mix to combine. (cocoa, flour, salt, vanilla)
- Pour the batter into the greased and floured 8-inch square pan and
bake for 15 minutes.
- Remvove the for 15 minutes
- Bake for another 40-50 minutes.
The toothpick done-ness method doesn't work, brownies are supposd to be a little gooey. A dry toothpick will lead to dry brownies.
When it's done, remove to a rack to cool.
Resist the temptation to cut into it until it's mostly (entirely) cool. The knife will get really gooey if they're warm.
The recipe originally said “16 servings”, but I think that's way too few, these are super dense and rich.