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Mrs Cook's legendary brownies

These brownies aren't just brownies. They are food porn. They are culinary corruption. In the wrong hands they could be dangerous. This recipe should come with a coronary advisory.
We here at krow believe that they may just be our finest new business tool.
Make them and judge for yourself.
The recipe is an adaptation of one by the buttoxsome Nigella .... Thank you Mrs. Saatchi

Ingredients

375 g soft unsalted butter
300 g lindt 70% cocoa dark chocolate
6 large eggs
1-tablespoon vanilla extract
500 g caster sugar
225 g plain flour
1-teaspoon salt


Directions

Preheat the oven to 180C.
Line your approximately 33 x 23 x 5 1/2cm brownie pan with baking paper.

Melt the butter and chocolate together in a large heavy based saucepan.

In a bowl beat the eggs with the sugar and vanilla.

Measure the flour into another bowl and add the salt.

When the chocolate mixture has melted, let it cool a bit before beating in the eggs and sugar mixture, and then the flour.

Beat to combine and then scrape out of the saucepan into the lined brownie pan.

Bake for about 25 minutes. Finger check at 20 mins that they are soft in the middle. Getting them out whilst they are soft is critical (as the actress said to the bishop)

When it’s ready, the top should be dried to a paler brown speckle, but the middle still dark and dense and gooey……. Gooey is very important when it comes to brownies.

Keep checking the brownies as they cook; remember that they will continue to cook as they cool.

Leave them in the tray to cool before cutting into squares …. Leave them overnight if you can and cut in the morning.

Dust with icing sugar before serving.
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Lulu said…
Food porn is a perfect description! Cooked these yesterday for my youngest daughter's 15th birthday and her gang had them with ben and jerry's........... the result was the most outragiously hyper Mario wii-ing. This makes a huge quantity so there was plenty left to keep the girls going through Duke of Edinburgh this weekend - watch out Hungerford! Lulu
May 2, 2009 at 8:33 AM
Anonymous said…
These brownies are the most amazing ones I've ever had! But I'm not sure if anyone else apart from Lisa can make them as delicious....
July 26, 2009 at 5:28 PM
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