brownies

18Nov07

Here’s the recipe from Everyday Food.

Ingredients

• 8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, cut into pieces, plus more for pan (4 ounces)
• 1 cup all-purpose flour (spooned and leveled)
• 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 8 ounces semisweet or bittersweet chocolate, chopped
• 1 1/4 cups sugar
• 3 large eggs

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Brush a 9-inch square baking pan with butter. Line bottom and two sides with a strip of parchment paper, leaving a 2-inch overhang on the two sides. Butter paper, and set pan aside. In a small bowl, whisk flour, cocoa, baking powder, and salt; set aside.
2. Place butter and chocolate in a large heatproof bowl set over (not in) a saucepan of gently simmering water. Heat, stirring occasionally, until smooth, 2 to 3 minutes; remove bowl from pan. Add sugar; mix to combine. Add eggs, and mix to combine. Add flour mixture; mix just until moistened (do not overmix). Transfer batter to prepared pan; smooth top.
3. Bake until a toothpick inserted in center comes out with a few moist crumbs attached, 50 to 60 minutes. Cool in pan for 30 minutes. Using paper overhang, lift brownies out of pan; transfer to a rack to cool completely (still on paper). On a cutting board, using a dampened serrated knife, cut into 16 squares. Store in an airtight container at room temperature, up to 2 days.

Lining the pan with parchment paper was a fantastic idea. You can just lift the brownie right out of the pan. I didn’t even butter the parchment paper and it peeled right off. I think I might line my pans with parchment paper when I bake cakes.

The thing about recipes from Martha Stewart that I don’t particularly like is how they use sticks of butter. This only works if you buy the same kind of butter as they do. Sticks of butter come in different sizes especially when you live in a different country. I had to do some internet researching to figure out that their 1 stick of butter equals 4 ounces. Luckily Fredrik bought an electronic scale. It does grams and ounces. Everything in Sweden is dealt in the metric system. They don’t even include the imperial measurements like the stuff in Canada.

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