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possibly want in a brownie and it is just beyond
easy, let's get started. First off, I'm prepping my baking dish. It's an eight by eight, but you could also use a nine by nine, you'll just get a slightly thinner brownie which is totally fine. What we're doing is adding
a square of parchment paper and I'm just trimming
where the corners are, or I hope they are and then
we're gonna place it in. This it'll let our brownie
come out in a snap. If you don't do this, you're
in for a rough surprise after it comes out of the
oven because it will stick. Just fold really quickly, if this turns out I'll be so happy. Okay, look at that, nice and perfect. Now we have a beautiful,
open, rectangular prism to pop our brownie batter
into when we're ready. Set it aside and onto our bowl. This recipe comes together in a snap, but it helps to get all of
your ingredients prepped, so melt one cup of unsalted butter. If you're melting it in the microwave, which is of course the easiest way, just make sure you do short bursts and give it a mix because
if you go for too long, the water in that butter will
turn to steam and explode and I've had to clean
butter out of my microwave so many times, learn from my mistakes. Also crack three eggs into a bowl, this way you can fish out any shells before they go into the batter. One cup of melted butter
into a large bowl. This recipe does call for
a tablespoon of coffee, so save some of your morning coffee or make a fresh batch and feel refreshed. Also, if you are totally
anti-coffee you can skip this and add like an extra tablespoon of water or vanilla instead, the coffee just wakes
the chocolate flavor up. A tablespoon of coffee,
a tablespoon of vanilla, once cup of granulated sugar, one cup, or again 200
grams of light brown sugar. You could use dark brown
sugar if you want too. Time to give it a whisk. Would it be wrong to spread this on toast? This is my sincere
question, hello, delicious. And by spread it on toast, I
mean eat by the spoonful, shh. You can add the eggs in now and by the by, the order doesn't really
matter in the beginning, dump it all in at the
same time if you want. (batter swishing) Nice and smooth, perfect. If you love to bloom cocoa
powder, bloom the cocoa powder. So that means that you would
add the cocoa powder right away to the warm, very warm,
melted butter and just let it, mix it in, let it infuse for awhile and it will become extra choclately fudgy, but these brownies are
mega chocolate, mega fudgy, so I don't consider it a necessary step, but I've gotten some questions about it, so yes, bloom away if that's you. Now let's add those dry ingredients starting with my 120
grams or one cup of flour, 3/4 of a cup of cocoa powder and I'm using a blend
of dutch and natural, but you could dutched if you
want or even all natural. Dutched cocoa powder will
be a little bit more fudgy and it's kind of my favorite, but people have different
personal preferences. One teaspoon of salt and
just sift it in here, the cocoa powder tends to be lumpy, so sifting it is a nice way to make sure there are no lumps and everything is nice and
homogenous after being mixed in. One more whisk and this time we're gonna mix it until
it's almost combined. Be careful, this is a big bowl, but it's not big enough to
contain the mess if I get going. (laughs) Sometimes you
just question yourself, I'm like, "Am I doing this
right? Is this really my recipe?" The deal is that it's
gonna be a little bit thick but kind of like when
you're making a sugar glaze and it's like a big lump,
it just takes a minute to mix in, mellow out,
and get with the program. Also, you don't have to
use a whisk for this. Not a bad idea to switch to a spatula and just continue folding it in. Look at that, that's
the rich brownie batter we're talking about. This room is a nice room temperature, but the counter top is ice cold, (laughs) so some of the butter
got a little bit cold, but that's okay. Winter in Connecticut
is teaching me so much about all of the questions that
I get from around the world because so many problems never
happened in my old kitchen, but they've happened now. Like I was baking a cake the other day and it came out a little bit
flatter and kind of pock-marked and I'm like, this is not what the cake
is supposed to be like, I've made this before, it's supposed to be super
thick and fluffy and amazing. The deal is that that
butter was on the counter, like the bowl is basically on
the counter for a bit too long and it sucked the heat out,
so it all chilled too much and instead of being nice and
incorporated in the batter, you had little lumps of
butter hanging around and there were so many lumps of butter that they didn't mix the flour and they melted into little pools and it made the cake dense, so I need to do a whole cold
weather baking video I think. Let me know in the comments
if you have other questions that I should address. All right, this is
perfect now, look at that. What do we have to add,
some chocolate chips. You could also add chocolate chunks, you could also add nuts. If you're adding nuts, I would say go for a cup of toasted nuts and then maybe like a
cup of chocolate chips or half a cup chocolate chips. Before the chips go in,
I just wanna mention that I do have a marshmallow
brownie recipe too which is bananas crazy time amazing. It has a thinner layer
of brownie for the base, a mega layer of like homemade
marshmallow fluff on top with lot's of chocolate
swirled and over that. It is so indulgent and really
mwah, click up here for that. In there you have the chocolate chips, just fold those chocolate chips
in so they're nice and even. (slow jazzy music) Batter's good to go, let's
get it into that prepared pan. This paper liner is making me
so happy, I cannot tell you. Get this batter in there, brownie vibes. This probably won't surprise you, but when I was younger I
was so into gift wrapping. I would get the fancy
little pieces of paper that were like all handmade,
whatever, and nice silk ribbons and intricately wrapped them,
I didn't have to use tape. (sighs) Those days are totally gone now, that's when I had a lot
time on my hands. (laughs) This will self-level out in the oven, but I do wanna give it
a bit of a head start, so I'm just going to push
it towards the edges. If you want, you can finish this off with a sprinkle of chocolate chips on top, but this is like 100% pure chocolate, so this is good for me. It's gonna go into the oven now at 350 for about half and hour. The center will be just set and this is the sort of thing where if you wanna under
bake it, just a little bit, it's gonna be nice and fudgy, but you can go a little
bit longer in the oven and kind of crisp that edge up a bit more. Like a cookie, it's
gonna wanna settle down and cool for a bit before
you handle it or cut it, so just be patient. My brownie is out of the oven
and it cooled down enough that it's now solid and look at this. Do you see, that is exactly what I want a brownie to look like, that glossy kind of crackled top. Uh, my mouth is watering
and the smell's beyond. Let me show you why it was so important for the paper liner to be there. There we go, that is
amazing, no fuss, no muss. Do I even have to wash this,
I will but just for form sake, there's literally nothing in the pan. Unfold it, we're gonna cut some now. That is beyond the shadow of a doubt the fudgiest brownie you could have. It has a nice, kind of like, you know, almost crisp edge in the corner, but the center is like molten
chocolate, ha! (laughs) For me, it's edge all the way. I actually like the corner pieces because I like the crunchy parts with a little bit of fudgy in the middle, it is one of my favorite things, but now it's time for a bite. Oh my gosh, it's like you're drowning in a giant pool of chocolate and loving every last minute
of it and this is on last. (sighs) If you like this recipe, check out my chocolate playlist, it has all my favorite chocolate recipes including my insanely delicious
marshmallow brownie, whoa. If you like this video, hit
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