From 6 Bittersweets
From Alice Medrich via Scharffen Berger
Makes 16 2-inch square bars (1 8-inch square pan)
XIAOLU'S NOTES. I understand the recipe states this below, but don't make use of a glass pan or it'll BREAK throughout the rapid cooling ice bath step. Shattered glass isn't any fun, believe me 8). If you need to make use of a 9-inch square pan, I'd recommend growing the components by half or at best including nuts or any other add-ins so that your brownies are thicker.
8 tablespoons (1 stick) butter
4 ounces unsweetened chocolate
1 1/4 cups sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup flour
2/3 cup chopped, toasted walnuts or pecans (optional)
[I wasn't confident that Steve loved nuts and so i overlooked]
2 large eggs, 70 degrees
Preheat the oven to 400 levels F.
Prepare an 8-inch square metal baking pan. It's important within this recipe to simply use metal. Line the pan with either aluminum foil or parchment paper in order that it pops up all sides.
Melt the butter along with the chocolate in the top of the a dual boiler or perhaps in a bowl placed above simmering (not boiling) water. Stir to easily integrated.
Having a wooden spoon or heavy spatula, add the sugar, vanilla and salt. Add some eggs individually. Add the flour. Stir the mix not less than one minute before the batter is smooth and starts to come from the sides from the bowl.
If you opt to add nuts, we believe an easy toasting constitutes a big flavor difference. Add the nuts because the last step before putting the batter within the pan.
Bake the brownies at 400 levels F for 25 minutes or before the batter starts to come from the sides from the pan.
As the brownies are baking, prepare an ice bath to cool down the. Utilizing a roaster pan or perhaps a bigger baking pan, grow it with cold water and ice. Whenever you take away the brownies in the oven, awesome the pan completely within the ice bath. Make sure not get water around the brownies. ( Should you have had used a pyrex pan, the glass would break at this time as well as your brownies could be destroyed .)
Cut the brownies into 16 squares.
