Yet Another Brownie Recipe
Submitted by banjoman77
Six ingredients. One bowl. Fudgy, crackly-topped brownies loaded with real melted chocolate and crunchy walnuts. No cocoa powder shortcuts here, just the real deal from scratch in under an hour.
YIELD
12 servingsPREP
25 minCOOK
20 minREADY
1 hrsYeah, the internet has ten million brownie recipes. But hear me out on this one.
These are the real-deal, old-school brownies your bakery-obsessed friend keeps talking about. Real unsweetened chocolate melted with butter (none of that cocoa powder business), a bare minimum of flour to hold things together, and just enough sugar to let the chocolate do the talking.
The result? Dense, fudgy squares with that gorgeous crackly top and a deep, bittersweet chocolate punch that box mixes can only dream about. Toss in the walnuts for crunch, or skip them if you’re a purist.
Pro Tips
- Melt the chocolate over hot (not boiling) water. Boiling water creates steam that can seize the chocolate into a grainy mess.
- Don’t overmix once you add the eggs. A few streaks in the batter are fine. Overmixing makes cakey brownies instead of fudgy ones.
- Pull them from the oven when they just start to pull away from the sides. They’ll keep cooking in the pan as they cool.
- Freeze in a single layer wrapped in plastic, then foil. They keep for months and taste incredible straight from the freezer.
Ingredients
Directions
Preheat oven to 350℉ (180℃). Butter an 8 inch square cake pan and set aside.
Chop the walnuts in the bowl of a food processor fitted with a steel knife and set aside.
Chop the chocolate into small pieces and melt with the butter in the top of a double boiler over hot, not boiling water. Stir until smooth.
Remove from the heat, and stir in the sugar, then the flour, then the eggs, then the nuts. Pour into the prepared pan and smooth the top.
Bake 20 to 25 minutes. Brownies will pull away from the sides of the pan. Allow brownies to cool in the pan on a rack. Cut into squares.
To freeze brownies, place in a sigle layer and protect them first with plastic wrap and then with aluminum foil.
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