I make these all too often.

It's a mixing / learnings of at least 15 different brownie recipes, tirelessly testing and mixing ratios

This can make deliciously fudgy brownies, with a nice crisp crust on the top. ie: something sinfully decadent.

Ingredients

• 3 eggs
• 1 stick of butter
• 4oz baking chocolate
• 1 2/3 cup sugar. brown is best, but white is ok
• 1 cup flour ( i like a 2:1 white:whole wheat ratio , but you can use all white )
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1/3 cup cocoa powder
• 1 tbsp creme de cacao ( if you have it. not necessary at all )

Directions

Melt the butter & baking chocolate together. I imagine you could use a microwave proof bowl, but i just put my metal mixing bowl on top of a pot of boiling water -- within 10 minutes, its all good.

Mix in the rest of the ingredients, and pour into a pan. 8x8 or 9x9 should work fine.

Bake at 350 for about 35 minutes... just until the top just starts to set and look like a 'brownie' -- then pull out to cool. The batch will continue to cook for a bit with residual heat. You want to ensure that the top has just set -- this way they are fudgier and not cake-like.

Simple Variations:

• You can add another egg, or egg-yolk, and it will be pretty fine.
• You can probably go down to 1.3 cups of sugar or so -- but you'd best be off with brown sugar in that case
• I've cut the butter down to 1/2 a stick - but when I do, i add 2tbsp of molasses
• You can heat up some peanut butter to make it thinner, drizzle a bit on the batter in the pan, and use a fork to cut it in / make a design.
• You can drop some frozen raspberries into the pan before pouring the batter in
• You can add in 1-2 tsp of instant coffee to make the chocolate taste darker