Brownies

I used two of the 70% cocoa bars and one of the 85% cocoa. I also used EXTRA DARK cocoa powder. I slightly adapted this recipe from a cookbook I received for Christmas. Baked New Frontiers in Baking. Totally great cookbook with lots of recipes I want to try and some beautiful photography!



The Baked Brownie

1 1/4 cup flour
1 tsp salt
2 TBSP dark cocoa powder
11 ounces dark chocolate, coarsely chopped
1 cup unsalted butter, cut into cubes
1 1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
5 large eggs, at room temperature
2 tsp vanilla

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9X13 pan.

Whisk together the flour, salt, and cocoa powder. Set aside. Put the chocolate and butter into a large bowl, and set it over a pan of simmering water. Make sure the bottom of your bowl is not sitting in the water. Stir occasionally, until completely melted and smooth. Turn off the heat, but keep the bowl over the water. Add the sugar and brown sugar. Whick until completely combined. Remove the bowl from the water. Add 3 eggs to the chocolate mixture and whisk until combined. Add the remaining eggs and whisk until combined. Stir in the vanilla. Do not overmix here or your brownies will be cakey.

Sprinkle the flour mixture over the choclate mixture. Using a spatula, gently fold the flour into the chocolate until just a bit of the flour is visible. Pour into the pan. Bake in the center of your oven for 30 minutes, rotating the pan 180 degrees halfway through baking. They are done when a toothpick inserted in the middle of the pan comes out with a few crumbs sticking to it. Do not overbake.