Brownies
Posted on 29 Mar 2013Most people do a couple things wrong when making brownies that produce dry, boring results. Let me provide you with my brownie recipe & technique for baking (arguably) perfect brownies every time.
The first error most people make is that they pour all their batter into a greased/floured glass dish and cook the crap out of it.
- glass is an awful thermoconductor and promotes uneven cooking
- overcooking the batter yields crappy brownies
- pouring out all the batter makes it harder to portion the brownies post-bake
The second mistake is using crappy cocoa powder; that dull of-the-shelf stuff sucks, your cocoa powder should be as dark and fragrant as ground coffee, and (like coffee) as fresh as possible.
| Yield | 2 dozen brownies | |
| Cook Time | 10-15 minutes | |
| Special Equipment | muffin tin |
Ingredients
| Amount | Ingredient |
|---|---|
| 1 cup | butter, unsalted |
| 1 cup | flour |
| 1 ½ cups | white sugar |
| 4 | eggs |
| ½ teaspoon | salt |
| ½ teaspoon | baking powder |
| ⅔ cup | cocoa powder |
Directions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit
- In a saucepan melt your butter over low heat and transfer to a large bowl or stand mixer.
- Mix in the sugar, vanilla. Beat in the eggs.
- In another bowl, thoroughly combine the flour, baking powder, cocoa and salt. Add to the batter.
- LIne a muffin tray with paper cups.
- Using a ice cream scoop for even measures (that’s smaller than the muffin cup size, obviously), spoon the batter into the individual cups âfilling about 2/3.
- Bake for 15-20 minutes (or until it passes the spaghetti test*).
- Remove and let cool on a baking rack. Repeat until batter is gone.
- Enjoy :-)
*Stick a dry piece of spaghetti into one of your brownies, and pull it out. You’ll not want it to come out dry, but rather with a few crumbs âthat’ll mean they’ll be done.