Rich Brownies
| Rich Brownies | |
|---|---|
| Category: | Dessert recipes |
| Servings: | 8-10 |
| Time: | 30 minutes |
| Difficulty: |  |
Rich brownies are cake-like but are denser and not springy or gooey.
Ingredients
- 4 ounces (110 g) unsweetened baking chocolate
- ⅔ cup (160 g/1.6 dl) solid fat: margarine, butter, shortening, or lard.
- 2 cups (450 g/2.7 dl) baking sugar
- 4 eggs
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 1¼ (300 g/3 dl) cup flour
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 1 tsp. salt
- 1 cup (240 g/2.4 dl) coarsely chopped nuts (½ inch / 1 cm walnuts work well)
Procedure
- Heat oven to 350°F/175°C.
- Melt chocolate and margarine in a double boiler, or (carefully) in a saucepan on low heat while stirring often.
- Remove from heat.
- Mix in the sugar, eggs and vanilla.
- Excluding the nuts, mix the dry ingredients with each other, and then into the wet mixture.
- Mix in the nuts.
- Spread into a 13-inch by 9-inch baking pan, or into two 8-inch by 8-inch baking pans.
- Bake for 30 minutes, or until brownies pull away from the sides of the pan.
Notes, tips, and variations
- This works well with 3 tablespoons of oil in place of the solid fat. When using lard, ⅓ cup should be about right.
- Unlike other brownie recipes which use cocoa powder and fill one small pan, this recipe uses baking chocolate and fills two small pans or one large one.
