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(Judy Haffner) wrote:

> Do you have a favorite brownie?

These are pretty good.

Barb Schaller's Famous Orgasmic Chocolate Brownies
Recipe By: Barb Schaller

Serving Size: 20

First Place, Minnesota State Fair -- twice.

1 cup unsalted butter (8 oz.)
4 ounces unsweetened baking chocolate (I like Guittard's Oban wafers)
2 cups granulated sugar (15 oz.)
4 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/2 to 3/4 teaspoon almond extract
1 cup chopped nuts, optional (walnuts or pecans)
1 1/3 cups cake flour (6 oz.)
1 teaspoon baking powder (maybe 3/4 tsp if the bp is very fresh)
1/2 teaspoon salt

Move oven rack to center and preheat oven to 350? F. Line a 9x13" metal
baking pan with parchment paper.

In microwave oven, on medium-high power, melt butter and chocolate in
2-quart microwave-safe bowl, about 3 minutes. Stir until smooth. Mix
in granulated sugar, then beat in eggs, one at a time, with wire whisk.

Mix in vanilla and almond. Stir in nuts. Combine cake flour, baking
powder, and salt and fold into chocolate. Spread batter in 9x13" pan
lined with baking parchment and bake in preheated oven at 350?F for
about 33-35 minutes. Do not overbake; toothpick may have fudgy crumbs
on it, but not wet batter.

Cool pan on wire rack for 15 minutes before removing (if you wish)
brownies from pan.

Notes: Please, keep the moaning down; it annoys the neighbors. I use
the baking parchment so the whole can be removed from the pan for easy
transport to a lucky recipient. You may want to support the bottom with
cardboard.

First Place, Plain Brownies, 1997 and 2002 Minnesota State Fairs.

Adapted from recipe in Cook's Illustrated magazine, March/April 1994.
Please note that I do use real chocolate, unsalted butter and cake
flour. If you do not, don't complain to me about it. In fact, don't
complain to me about it anyway.

Barb Schaller
M.A. Gedney Company's State Fair Peach Raspberry Jam and Cherry Jam Lady
Burnsville, Minnesota
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Barb,
http://web.me.com/barbschaller September 5, 2011