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Brownies, as They Should Be

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Double chocolate brownies: the only brownie recipe you’ll ever need.

Ingredients

  • 1-½ cup Flour
  • ½ teaspoons Baking Soda
  • ½ teaspoons Salt
  • ⅔ cups Butter
  • 1-½ cup Granulated Sugar
  • 4 Tablespoons Water
  • 2 packages Semi-sweet Chocolate Chips (12 Ounce Packages)
  • 2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract
  • 4 whole Eggs
  • 1 cup Chopped Walnuts (optional)

Preparation

Preheat oven to 325F.

Combine flour, baking soda and salt in a small bowl and mix to combine. In a large saucepan, melt the butter with the sugar and water. Bring just to a boil and remove from heat. Stir in one package of the chocolate chips and the vanilla extract. Whisk in the eggs one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Slowly blend in the flour mixture, and then add the remaining package of chocolate chips and the chopped nuts.

Pour into a greased 9×13″ pan* and bake for 30-40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Be careful not to over-bake, and make sure that your toothpick is coated with uncooked batter and not melted chocolate chips if you’re going to continue baking longer. Let cool at least 2 hours before serving.

Note: To make a half-batch, use a greased 9×9″ square pan and bake for 25-35 minutes.

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mrsc95 on 10.17.2010

These are the best brownies I have ever had! My son wanted brownies for his birthday instead of cake and these were a huge hit! Fudgey and cakey – yum!

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connied on 8.14.2010

I made about 36 one-bite brownies from this recipe. I omitted the nuts and used dark chocolate for the batter. Use well greased mini muffin tins, filling 3/4 full, and bake for 12-15 minutes at 325°. Let cool in pan for 1/2 hour and give each a bit of a twist to remove from pan. Yummy. I predict that these brownies will be popular with the girls at work.

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soverybored on 8.9.2010

Seriously easy and yum – I’m a terrible baker and this was an absolutely fool-proof recipe.

I did make some modifications:

1) 1 tsp of instant coffee granules added to the butter/sugar/water mixture (though this was a bit much, and will cut down to 1/4 to 1/2 tsp)

2) 1/2 tsp cinnamon (will bump up to 3/4 to 1 full tsp)

3) sprinkled chile powder on top of batter before baking

YUM.

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Cassandra on 8.5.2010

These Win!!!

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2ndlovessweeter on 7.20.2010

Just made these last night for guests and they were so good! Using Tasty Kitchen is making my life a little harder one recipe at a time. My family now refuses canned spaghetti sauce, frozen bagel bites, now boxed brownie mix, thanks to this site!

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rinabeana on 5.27.2014

Not all brownie recipes were created equal. I’ve had epic brownie fails (crusty edges, soupy middle), to the point where I don’t often make brownies. However, immediately after I saw this recipe, my boyfriend and I were invited to a Memorial Day barbecue. It seemed like it was meant to be so I tried them. Even after frantically pulling the pan out of the oven because I’d forgotten to add the flour/soda/salt and then having to bake for a long time since the oven was inexplicably turned off for a while in the middle, they came out exactly as brownies should be! (Clearly I was suffering from overwork and not at my best in the kitchen.) Talk about a no-fail recipe! I used Ghirardelli double chocolate chips and I used 1 c. white whole wheat flour + 1/2 c. all-purpose flour. Thanks so much for sharing this awesome recipe!

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shilohbarkley on 2.3.2012

This is definitely how brownies should be.

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Jenny H on 8.31.2011

I have tried a lot of different brownie recipes, but I keep returning to this one. With or without the second bag of chocolate chips these are my favorite. Thanks!

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rolleriffic on 6.19.2011

Wow, those were delicious! Perfect consistency, taste, flavor, etc.

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betny on 3.14.2011

A-mazing. My husband LOVES these and definitely refers to them by their full name, as in, “Are these Brownies As They Should Be???”

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