Chowhounds are crazy for Ina Garten’s super-rich outrageous brownies, made with a pound of butter and a pound and a half of chocolate. Funwithfood recommends cutting them into half-inch squares and freezing extras.
cleopatra999 calls these triple-chocolate fudge brownies fantastic and really fudgy. The brownies from Bouchon bakery are not too sweet, super dark, and really moist, says sweet ginger
chowser recommends thick, fudgy man-catcher brownies, chewy supernatural brownies, and for a bittersweet, adult flavor, CHOW’s Intense Brownies, in which she uses a teaspoon of finely ground coffee instead of a teaspoon of brewed espresso.
Several hounds say their favorites are made from Trader Joe’s Truffle Brownie Mix. “That box mix makes some of the best brownies I’ve ever had,” confesses jencounter. coll adds a spoonful each Kahlua and instant espresso powder to the mix. Querencia glazes them: Combine 1 cup sugar, 1/3 cup milk, and 1/3 cup butter in a saucepan, bring to a boil, boil for a minute, stirring, then take off the heat and stir in 1 cup chocolate chips until melted. Pour over hot brownies—it’ll set as they cool.
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My new Nick Malgieri favorite is his recipe for Cocoa Nib brownies. It appears in The Modern Baker, his latest book. Cocoa nibs are the immediate antecedent of cocoa powder and other chocolate products, so they are not sweet. In this easy recipe the combination of sugar (not a huge amount), bittersweet chocolate, and cocoa nibs combine to make a sophisticated brownie. The bitter is perfectly in balance with the sweet. The butter quotient is half that of Ms. Garten’s.
His “Supernatural Brownies” are entirely different, yet again, not so sweet that your teeth ache. These brownies are typical of other brownies, but they are also madness-inducing among chocoholics in a way I’ve rarely seen.