Recipe book · 45 min
Fudgy brownies
Melted butter, one bowl, and a proper crackly top.
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How to cook it · about 45 minutes
- Melt the butter, then stir in the sugar and cocoa while it is still hot. It will look grainy and wrong — keep going.
- Let it cool for five minutes, or the eggs will scramble.
- Beat in the eggs one at a time, then beat hard for a minute. That beating is what makes the shiny crackly top.
- Fold in the flour, salt and vanilla until it just disappears, then the chips.
- Bake in a lined 8-inch square tin at 325°F for 30 minutes. A skewer should come out with damp crumbs, not clean.
- Cool completely in the tin before cutting, however hard that is.
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