Sunday, May 16, 2010

Brownies



OMG, I just made the awesomest brownies. It was sooo good I burned my tongue eating it and I did not care. Too good to spit out.

Brownies

1 cup butter, melted
1 1/2 cups white sugar
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
6 small eggs or 4 large eggs
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line the container you will use with parchment or grease it.
Combine the melted butter, sugar, and vanilla in a large bowl. I have chickens that produce my eggs so I always have them at hand.


They're pretty small in comparison to eggs from the store so I end up using 6 for this recipe but if you have regular eggs, use 4. Anyways, beat in the eggs, one at a time and mix well until well blended. Take the flour and sift it along with the cocoa power and salt. Gradually stir the flour mixture into the chocolate mixture until blended.


Now what makes these brownies so amazing is that the central layer of the brownies consist of gooey chocolate chips. In order to do this, take your batter, spread a small amount on the pan. This will consist of your thin layer of chocolate. Sprinkle the chocolate chips evenly over the first layer of batter. Add another layer on top and cover the morsels. It was a little bit trickly because I used parchment paper but I did not want the brownies to stick to the pan. Not to mention I was too lazy to whip out some butter to grease the pan with(hehehe).


If you are using a large deep pan, the brownies will take a longer time cook in comparison to if you cooked it with a small shallow pan. The dish I used was a shallow dish therefore it cooked in about 15 minutes. A good way to know is to stick a toothpick in there and when it comes out clean, it's cooked. Another thing I learned though, it seems that when you smell the brownies, if it smells intensely good, that's about the right time it's done. It reminded me of pineapples. When you sniff the fruit and it smells very strongly of pineapple, that's when it's ripe.

By the way, let the brownies cool once it's done and cut into desirable pieces.

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