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Chocolatey Fudgy Brownies

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A pediatric nurse gave me her infamous brownie recipe! It is by far the best chocolate brownie I have ever eaten! They are chocolatey … fudgy … and DELICIOUS!

Ingredients

  • 4 ounces, weight Unsweetened Chocolate Baking Squares
  • 1 cup Shortening
  • 1-½ cup Unbleached All-purpose Flour
  • 2 cups White Sugar
  • 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
  • 1 teaspoon Salt
  • 4 whole Eggs
  • 2 teaspoons Pure Vanilla Extract

Preparation

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F and butter a 9×13 glass baking dish.

Chop the chocolate into chunks and add it along with the shortening to a small sauce pan heated over low heat. Stir often until all the chocolate is melted. Then, remove from the heat and let it cool slightly.

Sift together the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt; set aside.

Whisk together the eggs and the vanilla, then pour the cooled melted chocolate/shortening into the eggs. Stir until combined and then pour it into the dry ingredients.

Pour the batter mixture into the buttered 9×13 baking dish, spread out evenly and bake in a preheated oven for 25 minutes or until a tester comes out clean!

Let cool and top with my Homemade Chocolate Frosting (see my TastyKitchen recipe box for the recipe) and serve!

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Laurie - Simply Scratch on 1.30.2011

I’m so glad to hear you love these! These are my “go to” brownies too! :)

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lowcountryheather on 1.29.2011

This is SUPER! As I stated in my review, this recipe even works well when 1/2’d in an 8×8 pan!! Which is great, because that is less for me to binge on!! Ha Ha! Thanks!

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Laurie - Simply Scratch on 1.6.2011

I just want to respond to some of the reviews on this recipe. My recipe calls for unsweetened chocolate, and for some reason when I posted this recipe on tasty kitchen, I stated that semi-sweet chocolate should be used {silly me}. So for the record PLEASE USE UNSWEETENED CHOCOLATE… I changed the recipe to reflect this!

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thebakingbandit on 9.24.2012

OK, so I replaced half the shortening with applesauce, half the sugar with stevia and half the all-purpose flour with whole wheat and these are without a doubt the richest, chocolatiest, most decadent brownies I have ever had, let alone baked. Seriously, I cannot recommend this recipe highly enough.

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lowcountryheather on 1.29.2011

This is my go-to brownie recipe from now on!!! The texture and chocolate’ness’ is perfect! I have also made a second batch with the recipe 1/2’d and used an 8×8 pan; still turned out perfect!!!!

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nbertucci on 9.23.2010

Y’all are crazy – I followed the recipe as is and found it perfect! I loved the texture and chocolate taste! in fact it was even better with the home made frosting she has!

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1sarahb on 9.20.2010

These have a good texture, but I doubt I’ll try this recipe again. Based on the previous review about them not being as chocolately as expected, I used bittersweet chocolate instead of semi sweet and sprinkled in some extra chocolate chips on top before baking. They still aren’t super-chocolately. Also, I had to bake an extra 20 minutes, for a total of 45 minutes, even though I used a 9×13 glass baking pan.

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apps4life on 8.2.2010

I don’t know, these just didn’t turn out as chocolatey as I wanted. Texture is perfect, I’m going to try adding another chocolate square to see if that does it.

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