Fudge Brownie Fingers Food

FUDGE BROWNIES I

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 9x13 inch baking pan.
• In 3-quart saucepan over very low heat, melt butter or margarine and chocolate, stirring the mixture constantly. Remove from heat, and stir the sugar into the chocolate. Allow the mixture to cool slightly. Beat in the eggs one at a time, mixing well after each, then stir in the vanilla. Combine the flour and salt; stir into the chocolate mixture. Fold in the walnuts. Spread the batter evenly into the prepared pan.
• Bake in oven 30 to 35 minutes. Brownies are done when toothpick inserted into center come out clean. Cool in pan on wire rack.

SUPER FUDGE BROWNIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9 inch square pan.
• In a medium bowl, stir together the vegetable oil, eggs, egg yolk, applesauce and chocolate syrup until well blended. Stir in the brownie mix and cocoa powder. Fold in the chocolate chips and walnuts. Spread evenly into the prepared pan.
• Bake for 40 to 45 minutes in the preheated oven, until the top of the brownies appear dry.

THE BEST EVER FUDGE BROWNIES

Steps:

• In a medium saucepan, melt butter or margarine on low heat.
• Remove from heat and in same pan, stir in sugar, eggs and vanilla, stir well.
• Add in flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt.
• Stir in chips and nuts if desired.
• Bake at 350 for approx 25-30 minutes, depending on your oven.
• Do not over-bake.

THE BEST FUDGY BROWNIES

Steps:

• Arrange a rack in the center of the oven and preheat to 350 degrees F. Spray a 13-by-9-inch baking pan, preferably metal, with nonstick baking spray. Line the pan with parchment paper leaving a 2-inch overhang on the longer sides. Lightly coat with nonstick spray.
• Melt the butter in a large saucepan over medium heat, swirling occasionally, until the butter is a deep golden color, about 5 minutes; the butter will hiss and spit as the whey evaporates so be careful. As the foam subsides the butter will go from a canary yellow color to golden. When it does, take it off the heat. Add the chocolate and cream to the butter and let it sit, stirring occasionally, until the chocolate is melted.
• Sift the flour and cocoa powder through a fine-mesh sieve into a medium bowl. Beat the granulated sugar, brown sugar, salt, vanilla, espresso powder and eggs in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment. Start on low speed and gradually increase to high speed until the eggs are pale, very thick and fluffy, about 8 minutes (start your timer when you get to high speed). Do not be tempted to skimp on the mix time; this step is key to getting the signature shiny, crackled brownie top. Reduce the speed to low and slowly pour the warm chocolate into the eggs; beat until completely incorporated. Gradually add the dry ingredients and beat until just combined; do not overmix. Use a rubber spatula to scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl and fold until the batter is completely combined.
• Scrape the batter into the prepared pan. Bake until the brownies are glossy and just barely firm, and an instant-read thermometer inserted into the center registers 205 degrees F, 25 to 35 minutes. Don't let the thermometer touch the bottom of the pan or you will get a much higher reading. (The cook time will be at the higher end of the range if using a glass or ceramic baking dish.)
• Let the brownies cool completely to allow the crumb to set before slicing, about 3 hours.
• Use an offset spatula to loosen the brownies from the sides of the pan. Use the parchment overhang to lift the brownies out of the pan. Remove the parchment and cut into 24 squares.

BUTTER FUDGE FINGERS

Steps:

• In a microwave, melt butter and chocolate; stir until smooth. Cool for 10 minutes. , In a large bowl, beat eggs and salt until foamy. Gradually add sugar until well blended. Stir in chocolate mixture. Combine flour and baking powder; gradually add to batter. Stir in pecans. , Pour into a greased 15x10x1-in. baking pan. Bake at 350° for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool in pan on a wire rack. , For frosting, in a large heavy saucepan, cook butter over medium heat for 5-7 minutes or until golden brown. Pour into a large bowl; beat in the confectioners' sugar, cream and vanilla until smooth. Frost bars., For glaze, in a microwave, melt the chocolate and butter; stir until smooth. Cool slightly. Drizzle over bars.

FUDGE BROWNIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325F.
• Thoroughly grease a 9" x 9" x 2" pan.
• Reserve 2/3 cup of the chocolate chips.
• Mix all the ingredients except the reserved chips until well blended.
• Press the mixture into the greased pan (I usually use my fingers to do this).
• Bake for about 20 minutes, turn off oven and remove brownies.
• Sprinkle the reserved chips evenly over the top of the brownies and return to the turned off oven for several minutes to melt the chocolate chips.
• Using a knife spread the melted chocolate chips evenly over the top of the brownies.
• Cut into 25 pieces.

FUDGE BROWNIE BITES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375.
• Melt butter and baker's chocolate until smooth.
• Mix in sugar and eggs.
• Fold in flour and chocolate chips and mix only until combined (the less mixing, the more moist).
• For bites, fill each tartlet to top.
• Cook for 15 minutes.
• Cool 5-10 minutes and pop out to finish cooling on wire racks.
• Repeat until all the batter is cooked.
• For pan brownies, grease 9X13 pan and pour in mixture.
• Bake 20-25 minutes.

FUDGE BROWNIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350ºF (180ºC) and grease a 12-square brownie pan or 8-inch square pan.
• For the salt roasted pecans, melt the butter in a sauté pan over medium heat and add the pecans and salt. Stir and toast the pecans for about 8 minutes, until the pecans have a pleasant nutty aroma (the salt will not dissolve, but adds a nice crunch). Remove the pan from the heat and cool while preparing the brownies.
• Melt the chocolate and butter in a medium saucepot over medium-low heat, stirring until melted. Remove the pan from the heat and whisk in the sugar and brown sugar right into the pot. Whisk in the eggs one at a time, then whisk in the vanilla. Stir in the flour and cocoa powder until evenly combined.
• Count out 12 pecan halves and set aside. Roughly chop the remaining pecans and stir them into the brownie batter. Divide the batter into the bar pan, or spread into the 8-inch pan and arrange the reserved pecan halves on top. Bake for about 20 minutes, until the tops of the brownies lose their shine. If baking in an 8- inch pan, bake an additional 5 minutes. Cool the brownies for an hour before removing from the tin (and slicing, if baking in a larger pan).
• The brownies will keep in an airtight container for up to 5 days, and the brownies actually improve after a day.

FUDGE BROWNIES

Steps:

• Position a rack in the center of the oven and preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Lightly coat a baking pan with cooking spray.
• In a small saucepan, combine the butter and chopped chocolate and set over very low heat until melted. Stir the mixture and set aside to cool. In a medium-sized mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Measure the sugar into the large bowl of an electric mixer and beat in the cooled butter-chocolate mixture. Add the egg plus whites, vanilla, and water and beat well. Add the dry ingredients and mix on low speed just until blended. Don't overbeat. The batter will be thick. Spoon the batter into the prepared pan, smooth the top, and bake for 22 to 25 minutes; 23 minutes is usually right for me. When done, the top will look dry and a wooden pick inserted near the edge will come out with a few crumbs but the center will look slightly gooey. Cool in the pan and cut into squares.
• I have been trying for a couple of years to produce a brownie worthy of the name with less fat and less solid chocolate. My taste testers finally agree that this is it - a great brownie they would never suspect of being lower in anything. I have cut the classic 58 percent down to 31 percent calories from fat and eliminated 87 calories, 10 g fat, and 22 mg cholesterol from each brownie.
• When traditional proportions are disrupted, textures become moist and cakey at best or dry, insipid, and tough at worst. One rule emerges clearly: The fewer ingredients, the better the brownie. Avoid the usual low-fat stand-ins: applesauce, yogurt, corn syrup, canola oil. Use butter, but less, and replace most of the solid chocolate with rich-tasting Dutch-processed cocoa; retain at least 1 ounce of solid chocolate, however, for a more complex chocolate taste. A few tricks: Cake flour produced a more tender crumb than all-purpose, and melting the butter with the chocolate, as opposed to creaming the solid butter with the sugar, gave a fudgier crumb. A touch of baking powder seems to enhance the crunch of the top crust.
• Faced with the choice of adding high-fat chopped nuts or keeping the 1/4 cup butter, there was no contest; nuts put us over the top in fat content. However, if you feel deprived without them, sprinkle about 3 tablespoons of finely chopped walnuts on top before baking; the changes are modest: 33 percent calories from fat, plus 9 calories and 1g fat per brownie.

CLASSIC FUDGE BROWNIES

Steps:

• Butter and flour an (8-inch square) baking pan and preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• In a small heavy saucepan melt the chocolate and butter over low heat, stirring until the mixture is smooth, and let the mixture cool completely. Into a bowl sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt. In a large bowl, using an electric mixer, beat the eggs. While still beating, add the sugar, a little at a time, and beat the mixture at high speed for 3 minutes, or until thick and pale.
• Add in the chocolate mixture and the vanilla, and then add in the flour mixture, stirring until the mixture is blended well. Stir in the walnuts. Pour the batter into the baking pan, smoothing the top. Bake the brownies in the middle of the oven for 25 to 30 minutes, or until the brownie pulls away slightly from the sides of the pan, and a cake tester, inserted in the center, comes out with crumbs adhering to it. Let the brownies cool completely in the pan before cutting them into squares.

FUDGE BROWNIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325.
• Grease a 9" square baking pan.
• Melt butter and chocolate in small saucepan over low heat.
• Stir to blend and set aside to cool.
• Beat eggs until light yellow; add salt, sugar, flour, and baking powder.
• Beat well.
• Blend in cooled chocolate, vanilla and pecans.
• Blend thouroughly.
• Pour into prepared pan and bake 35-45 minutes or until knife inserted in center comes out clean.
• Cool before cutting.

BROWNIE FINGERS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F Line a 13x9x2 inch baking pan with foil, grease foil.
• Set aside.
• Melt butter and chocolate in a large saucepan over LOW heat till smooth.
• Do NOT COOK, you are only melting the chocolate and butter together, this is very very important.
• Remove from heat.
• Stir in eggs, granulated sugar, and vanilla.
• Stir in flour and the ¾ cup cocoa powder.
• Spread batter in prepared pan.
• Bake for 22 to 25 minutes or till a wooden toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
• Cool in pan on a wire rack.
• Lift brownies from pan with foil.
• Cut into bars, wiping knife between cuts.
• Roll in powdered sugar or, in a mixture of equal parts powdered sugar and cocoa powder.
• I usually serve them plain, and I think they are just fine, but my husband like them rolled in the cocoa sugar the best.
• Makes 64.
• To store: Place in layers separated by waxed paper in an airtight container; cover.
• Store at room temperature up to 3 days or freeze up to 3 months.