You’ll never want brownies from a mix ever again. These are easy to make (not much harder than a store bought mix) and they taste much much better. Nothing worse that making something complicated from scratch, only to have it taste no better than a mix. Keep unsweetened chocolate on hand (only 2 oz. per batch) plus your staples (butter, sugar, eggs, flour etc.) and you can have these ready in an hour.
Katharine Hepburn's Brownies
Ingredients
- 2 oz. unsweetened chocolate
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 c. sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 tsp vanilla
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 1/4 cup flour
- 1 tsp. salt flakes
Directions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Grease and flour 8×8 glass pan.
- In a medium saucepan over low heat, melt butter and chocolate together.
- Remove from heat and stir in sugar, then beat in the eggs and vanilla. It will look a little like custard.
- Gently stir in salt and flour (save the salt flakes for the top).
- Scrape into pan and lightly sprinkle salt flakes (to taste) evenly over top.
- Bake for about 40 minutes.
- Allow to cool before cutting.
Notes:
These can be a little tricky to get out of the pan. One trick that I’ll be trying next time I make these is lining the pan and the edges with parchment paper, so I can lift the whole batch out and cut on a board.
Credit
Full credit for this recipe goes to Epicurious.com (edited by the chef and cookbook author, Ruth Reichl). The only modification I made was to add the salt flakes.
October 11, 2016 at 10:13 pm
Wonderful recipe.
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October 12, 2016 at 5:11 pm
Thanks. So easy to make!
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October 12, 2016 at 12:43 am
Can these be doubled?
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October 12, 2016 at 5:11 pm
Yes! I’ve doubled the batch and used a 9×13 pan. The brownies end up a little thicker but that’s not a bad thing ;-). Happy baking
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