Brownies

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup (4 oz/125 g) unsalted butter, cut into 4 pieces, plus extra for greasing
• 3 oz (90 g) unsweetened chocolate, finely chopped
• 1 cup (7 oz/122 g) sugar
• Pinch of salt
• 2 large eggs, at room temperature
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 3/4 cup (3 oz/90 g) cake (soft-wheat) flour, sifted
• 3/4 cup (4 1/2 oz/ 140 g) chocolate chips of your choosing (milk chocolate, white chocolate, peanut butter, semisweet) (optional)

Directions:

Gather ingredients.

Preheat oven to 350F (180C). Lightly grease an 8-inch (20-cm) square baking dish, preferably glass. Make sure you grease up the sides of the baking dish too, because the brownies rise a bit higher up the sides.

In a sauce pan over low heat, combine the butter and chopped unsweetened chocolate. Heat, stirring often, until melted, about 4 minutes. It took me a little longer than four minutes to get it all the way melted, not to much longer though. 

Remove from the heat and stir in the sugar and salt. I suggest doing this in a different bowl, not in the sauce pan. Add the eggs and vanilla and stir until well blended. Sprinkle the sifted flour over the mixture and stir until just blended. I sifted 1/4 of the flour in at a time so it wouldn't be too much mixing all at once. Next add the chocolate chips, if using. I just did semisweet chocolate chips, but I think peanut butter would have made them even better because all the chocolate was a little overwhelming.

Pour the batter into the prepared dish and spread evenly. Bake the brownies until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out almost completely clean, about 30 minutes, or longer if using a metal pan. It took mine 5 extra minutes to bake in the glass dish I was using. Do not over bake, the brownies will get really hard when cooled if over baked. Transfer to a wire rack to cool completely before cutting into squares. You should end up with 9 brownies.

My Experience:

I have still been stressed out with school and all that so I thought brownies would be another great and easy recipe! I didn't have many problems with this recipe, and it didn't take a long time to make them. I did feel like they were too chocolaty when I added the semisweet chocolate chips so I think if I were to make this recipe again I would use a different type of chocolate chips to balance out the flavor. Also I know I should have taken more pictures I just forgot to until it was too late. Overall though it was a great recipe and they tasted good too!

Enjoy!xx