Brownies

This is my mom’s recipe, which I’ve tweaked, which she tweaked from the old bakers’ chocolate recipe on the box.  She used to make it in one bowl  – but I prefer to dirty every dish I can.  I like these because they taste like brownie mix brownies, but aren’t.  (Weird right? We all have our vices).  Why the orange in the picture?  Because I like my brownies with orange juice, not milk… try it, it is pretty awesome.

1.0 brownies

Ingredients:

• ¹⁄₂ cup __________________________ butter
• 3  _____________________________eggs
• 3 ¹⁄₂ oz __________________________dark chocolate (melted)
• 1 pinch  ________________________ of salt
• 1 TBSP _________________________ vanilla
• 1 ¹⁄₃ Cup ________________________ sugar
• 1 tsp __________________________ instant espresso
• 1 Cups  ________________________ flour

Instructions:

• Turn the oven on, to 350°F
• Butter a pan, and coat with sugar (I use the all edges pan)
• Melt the chocolate (I used a double boiler, but any method will work)
• Add the butter to the chocolate and stir to melt the butter.
• Beat the eggs, with the sugar, add the vanilla and espresso.
• Mix the chocolate in to the egg mixture.
• Gently stir the flour in.
• Pour into the pan, and give it a wack to get air bubbles out.
• Bake for 30 minutes, or until the top is dry, but a toothpick comes out a little sticky.  You don’t want them too dry.