Classic Brownies

Name: Classic Brownies
Yield: Makes twenty-four 2-inch-square brownies
Ingredients: 1 cup, pecans or walnuts (4 ounces/113 grams), chopped medium (optional); 1 1/4 cups, plain cake flour (5 ounces/142 grams); 1/2 teaspoon, table salt; 3/4 teaspoon, baking powder; 6 ounces (170 grams), unsweetened chocolate, chopped fine; 12 tablespoons, unsalted butter (1 1/2 sticks), cut into six 1-inch pieces; 2 1/4 cups, sugar (15 3/4 ounces/447 grams); 4 , large eggs; 1 tablespoon, vanilla extract

Desserts or Baked Goods
Chocolate
Brownies & Bars
Holiday

Appears in Cook's Illustrated March/April 2004, America's Test Kitchen TV

Whatever happened to the chewy, not-over-the-top chocolaty brownie from our childhood?

SERVES Makes twenty-four 2-inch-square brownies

TIME 1¼ hours, plus 2 hours cooling

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