Thinking of making a dessert for your sweetie or perhaps some friends or coworkers? You know your dessert is going to be good when it has its own gravitational field.
Black Hole Brownies
Make with Youngs Double Chocolate Stout and dark chocolate, these brownies are dense, dark and moist without being really heavy. I used Callebaut Intense Dark Chocolate Baking Bar, it costs less per ounce than most high-end baking bars and is complex and creamy with a slight aftertaste of caramel. You can find it at most Whole Foods or on line. Chopping up a large block of chocolate in my kitchen can be a messy task (think Godzilla and Tokyo) but it's worth the trouble.
I took a batch to work and piranha could not have skeletonized a cow in less time than it took for my team to polish these off.
click to enlarge photos, you know the drill :-)
17 comments:
You are a solid 10 on the Rabid and Uncontrollable Brownie Lust scale.
AH....just the thing for a long wknd. (I prefer to hack my chocolate into nice melting bits with a long serrated bread knife - I think it's the best tool for the job.)
Glad you're home!!
Baked in a pie dish? The curvature in the last photo suggests something other than the traditional rectangular pan.
Blogger sucks. It's not worth what we're paying for it! (Wait a minute?)
Every time I read you, whether it's prose, poetry or food porn, I usually exclaim outloud, "Oh My GAWD! - or some variant.
Today was no exception.
Glad you returned safely! I'll bet Barkley was, too! - gfa
Kirk A - the 8 inch dish went missing during the move.
An 8 inch square pan has 64 square inches. The closest thing was a 9 inch round pain which has 64.4 inches (half the radius [4.5] squared times pi). You could probably use the more common 9.5 inch pan which has 70.8 square inches but the brownies will be thinner and cook about 10% quicker.
Or you could drink more of the stout, cook it in a metal bucket, and probably not care.
Brigid: I assumed you had use a square pan, and that you filled Brigid with as much stout as you did the brownies. I know I can't cut a straight line when I'm all stout.
:-P
XKCD rocks! Gonna have to introduce my wife to those brownies, too....
Calculating the square footage of baking utensils is definitely symptomatic of OCD. Is there an app for that?
Exactly what I wanted to see at lunchtime!... Thanks Brigid!
As usual, the brownies look yummy.
It is probably good that you're mixing some stout with those brownies. The chocolate by itself would likely keep you awake too much for a restful weekend.
Continuing prayers for all those folks still dealing with the aftermath of disasters.
WAHHH, I want one... :-)
So the Penguin (aka Sister Mary Elephant) was telling the truth when she said I could use arithmetic, algebra and geometry later in my life even if I didn't become an engineer?
I'll have to try that with my cornbread recipe, and these brownies too!
Oh man! Those look so good!
Wow. All I had was spiced butterscotch rum cake.
Two thumbs up for brownie happyland! I made strawberry rhubarb crumble this morning, and it must have turned out alright, as half the 9x13 pan is gone. (I confess, I ate quite a bit of it warm for breakfast to chase down my egg and asparagus.) The recipe is up on the blog.
Have a great weekend.
Ed it should work, but I shoudl have said it's half the diamater (radius) squared times pi). In any event with math or without the pie pan makes a good substitute.
Or you could drink more of the stout, cook it in a metal bucket, and probably not care.
That's why I like you. You get me;)
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