I was on the lookout for a recipe that I could take with me to a dinner with friends, and that maybe I could bring into work with me for my birthday. Initially, I found a chocolate cake from a newsletter I get fairly regularly, but since MM mentioned that cake isn’t his favorite, I took that recipe out of the mix.
Side Notes Super-Chocolate Brownies
Ingredients
- 4 large eggs
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa
- 1/2 cup flour
- 1/2 tsp kosher salt
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 8 oz (2 sticks) melted butter
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 300° F. Prepare a 8×8″ baking pan with non-stick spray, and line it with parchment paper.
- Sift together sugars, cocoa, flour and salt into a medium size bowl.
- Beat the eggs in a large bowl until fluffy and light yellow. Slowly add the dry ingredients until incorporated with the eggs. Pour in the vanilla extract, then slowly drizzle the butter with the mixer at its lowest speed until completely mixed.
- Fold the chocolate chips into the batter, making sure they’re evenly distributed, then pour batter into prepared pan.
- Bake brownies 45-60 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes, then remove from the pan.
- Wait until brownies are completely cool before cutting
I’d stumbled on a video on YouTube from the TV show Good Eats – shockingly, it was all about chocolate, and covered something called a Chocopocolipse Cookies. So, I went looking for there recipe on the Food Network website. And instead found this one!
Not only did I get the recipe, but I watched its video about three or four times. I do enjoy Alton Brown, and the scientific way he describes things. Appeals to the engineer in me, I guess.
Once I’d finished the batter (and tasted a little bit that had gotten on my hands), I determined what while these were perfectly good brownies, nice an chocolaty, they didn’t have quite the punch that I felt was necessary for my birthday.
So, I impulsively added a whole bunch of chocolate chips. Semi-sweet – I’m not crazy. 🙂
The recipe said that the brownies should be cooked at 300 degrees for about 45 minutes, but in my experience, they needed to be in there for a full hour.
I would also suggest letting the brownies cool for about 10 minutes in the baking dish on top of a cooling rack before taking them out of the dish.
Also, as much as it pains me to say it, when adding a whole bunch more chocolate, you should really hit the 16 serving mark….
I also highly, highly suggest eating them with vanilla bean ice cream. Not only is that a great way to eat brownies, it’s also a way to cut through the richness of the brownies. 🙂
Enjoy!