I wish I didn't like chocolate quite so much.
You see, I have spent many years of my life just avoiding the stuff because I feared it would make me fat. Yes, I wouldn't even touch a bar with a 10-metre pole because it contained what I hated most (at the time), calories. And I lacked the willpower.
Now, I'd love to say that I've mustered the strength to just eat a square of chocolate and call it a day but no, I eat half the bar and seek out saltiness to erase the memory of all the sugar on my tongue (I discovered and fell in love with Milka's milk chocolate and I haven't touched the dark stuff ever since). I can and have finished a 800g jar of Nutella in two days - not my proudest moment - and compensated by running till I couldn't feel my feet.
Extreme ? Yes. But then again, so is my love for chocolate. Let's get to brownies.
A side note: I've had so many recipes for brownies and baked off quite a few, I might add, and I doubt the internet needs another one given the mighty plethora that already exists, but if there is a slight chance that you reading this are as mad about chocolate as I am, then this will be one more reason to bake another wonderful chocolatey square ASAP. Between you and me and the gatepost, one can never have too many recipes for brownies.
Cure-all brownies:
120g butter
228g bittersweet chocolate
2 eggs
1 cup sugar
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla extract
3/4 cup flour
2 tbsp cocoa powder
2. Melt the butter and chocolate over low heat, stirring until smooth.
3. Beat the eggs, sugar and salt until pale yellow and thickened. Beat in the vanilla extract.
4. Stir the chocolate mixture into the egg mixture. Beat in the cocoa powder then suit over the flour, fold in gently.
5. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake for 20-25 minutes, until a toothpick inserted comes out with moist crumbs. Remove from the oven and place in the freezer immediately to stop the cooking.
6. Once the brownies have cooled completely, cut into squares and eat your heart out.
