Healthy dinners

Double Chocolate Chunk Brownies

Pastry chef Lee Lee Reid is a self-proclaimed brownie aficionado. “I’m always looking for that perfect chew,” she says. Needless to say, the chocolate chunk brownie recipe she developed, which customers can find at her husband’s bakeshop, Nathaniel Reid Bakery in St. Louis, is the ideal balance of cakey and fudgy—falling in line with Nathaniel’s own baking philosophy.

Ingredients

  • Cooking spray
  • 1 cup all-purpose flour (about 4 1/4 ounces)
  • 1/4 cup Dutch-process cocoa powder (such as Valrhona)
  • 3/4 teaspoon fine sea salt
  • 1 1/3 cups dark chocolate wafers (such as Valrhona Caraïbe 66% Cacao), divided
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 3/4 cup unsalted butter (6 ounces), melted
  • 1/2 cup packed dark brown sugar
  • 3 large eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Step by step

  1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Line a 13- x 9-inch metal baking pan with parchment paper, leaving 2 inches of overhang on all sides. Lightly coat parchment paper with cooking spray. Sift together flour, cocoa, and salt in a small bowl; set aside.
  2. Melt 1 cup chocolate wafers over a double boiler or in the microwave, stirring often, until smooth. Combine granulated sugar, melted butter, brown sugar, eggs, and vanilla in bowl of a stand mixer. Beat on medium-high speed until frothy and light caramel in color, about 1 minute.
  3. With mixer running on low speed, slowly pour melted chocolate into egg mixture. Fold in flour mixture until incorporated. Transfer batter to prepared pan, and smooth top. Roughly chop remaining 1/3 cup chocolate wafers, and sprinkle over top of batter. Bake in preheated oven until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean, 18 to 20 minutes. Cool brownies in pan on a wire rack at least 2 hours. Using parchment, remove brownies from pan. Cut into 20 rectangles.

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