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Rich Brownies

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Rich brownies are cake-like but are denser and not springy or gooey.

Total 00:30
Yield 8–10

Ingredients

  • 4 ounces (110 g) unsweetened baking chocolate
  • ⅔ cup (160 g / 1.6 dl) solid fat (e.g. margarine, butter, shortening, or lard)
  • 2 cups (450 g / 2.7 dl) baking sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1¼ cup (300 g / 3 dl) 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)

Instructions

  1. 1
    Heat oven to 175 °C (350 °F).
  2. 2
    Melt chocolate and margarine in a double boiler, or (carefully) in a saucepan on low heat, stirring often.
  3. 3
    Remove from heat.
  4. 4
    Mix in the sugar, eggs and vanilla.
  5. 5
    Excluding the nuts, mix the dry ingredients with each other, and then into the wet mixture.
  6. 6
    Mix in the nuts.
  7. 7
    Spread into a 30x20 cm (13x9 in) baking pan, or into two 20x20 cm (8x8 in) baking pans.
  8. 8
    Bake for 30 minutes, or until brownies pull away from the sides of the pan.
Category
Desserts
Method
Baking

Recipe Attribution

Wikibooks Cookbook
en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Rich_Brownies