Best Friends Forever Brownies
Rich, fudgy brownies made with unsweetened chocolate, cocoa powder, and chopped walnuts. These classic brownies are perfect for sharing with your best friends.
Ingredients
- •3 ounces unsweetened chocolate
- •12 tablespoons unsalted butter
- •1½ cups sugar
- •3 large eggs
- •1½ teaspoons vanilla extract
- •½ teaspoon salt
- •½ cup all-purpose flour
- •¼ cup unsweetened cocoa
- •1 piece baking pan
Cooking Instructions
- 1.
Heat oven to 325°F with rack in middle. Lightly grease or butter pan and line with crisscrossed sheets of parchment or foil, leaving a 1-inch overhang.
5 min
- 2.
Melt chocolate with butter in a large metal bowl set over a pan of simmering water, stirring occasionally, until smooth. Remove bowl from pan and let cool 5 minutes.
10 min
- 3.
Add sugar and whisk well.
2 min
- 4.
Add eggs, 1 at a time, whisking well after each addition, and whisk mixture vigorously until smooth and cohesive.
5 min
- 5.
Whisk in vanilla and salt.
1 min
- 6.
Add flour and cocoa and stir with whisk until incorporated and batter is smooth.
3 min
- 7.
Fold in nuts with a rubber spatula.
2 min
- 8.
Spread batter evenly in pan and bake until a wooden pick comes out clean, about 40 minutes.
40 min
- 9.
Cool brownies completely in pan on a rack.
60 min
- 10.
To remove them easily from the pan, use the parchment overhangs to lift the brownies, still on the parchment, from the pan. Cut brownies into serving pieces.
5 min
