This post originally appeared on Taste As You Go in August 2008. It has been updated in December 2021 to include a new lead photo and recipe card. Photos are still to come.
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I realize that I am probably committing a major food blog faux pas by writing a post containing a recipe and
not including a step-by-step explanation of the process or any photos of the finished product.
Considering I've placed myself on a rather strict budget until I climb out of the financial hole known as "moving to New York," I must delay purchasing a new digital camera. (My very old refurbished HP digital camera did not survive the move.)
I hope you don't hold it against me. Perhaps, one day, I'll have enough time to shoot the photos and included them here.
After a long day at work yesterday, which included inventorying and folding 575 t-shirts and helping a coworker fix the flushing mechanism on one of the office toilets, I needed chocolate. Remembering there was a recipe for brownies on the container of
SACO Premium Cocoa I had in the cabinet, I decided to go for it. Especially since I had a bottle of Ina-Garten-recommended "good vanilla" in the cabinet right next to the cocoa.
I cannot begin to tell you how decadent these brownies were!
It took a tremendous amount of restraint for me to only eat two before wrapping the rest of the pan up for the night. Normally, I'm not a huge fan of nuts or other mix-ins in my brownies, but I'm glad I added the almonds. The crunchy nuts provided a nice contrasting texture to the chewy fudginess to the brownies and having them in there helped to cut the richness.
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A bush league photo taken with my cell phone is better than nothing... right?
Thanks for the suggestion! :)
However, I shared some of the brownies with coworkers and they noticed "something different" with these brownies. I have a feeling they were picking up on the use of pure vanilla versus imitation vanilla. The latter is synthetic and tastes synthetic. So, the use of pure vanilla here prevented my brownies from tasting "off-the-line" processed, which is a very good thing when it comes to homemade baked goods! :-)
I am to the point of making 4 or 5 13x9 pans and sending them to my son at college, he prefers them with walnuts.
These are the best brownies!
It's so great that you're sending these goodies off to your son in college. I'm sure he appreciates having something to remind him of home. I know that I loved receiving care packages full of things my mother had baked for me.
I agree -- these are the best brownies!
-I added extra cocoa to make them fudgier.
-To reduce the calories, I used one egg and made one flax egg (flax meal + warm water left for 5 minutes works as a binder and egg substitute)
-I added finely ground espresso powder to give them a mocha flavour.
-I put a small dollop of cashew butter in the middle of where I would cut each square on half of them and a white chocolate chunk on the other half.
Great recipe! Thanks and have a great day!
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