Baking with Julia ~TWD ~ Best Ever Brownies

A  luscious, chocolaty brownie

Brownies and I go way back. I was a young bride when I found my husband raving over brownies my neighbor had made. What??? I can make better tasting brownies than that @#$%&!! So began my quest to make the most delicious brownies ever made. After several failures and eventual success, my husband figured out what I was doing ( a new batch of brownies every week for a month ) and finally he told me what I was waiting to hear...“These are the best Brownies I’ve ever had”.  After that I lost my interest in brownies until my kids were of school age!  Brownies were the treat of choice! My favorite recipe back then was on the box of Bakers Chocolate! 

Fast forward to todays Baking with Julia~TWD project. The recipe comes from Rick Katz. I thought of skipping this one. Don’t get me wrong; I love brownies! I am addicted to the luscious, chocolatey dense flavor of a great brownie!  So, the Best-Ever Brownie is a lot of temptation to have hanging around the house!  Especially, the week before Thanksgiving!  So this week, for Tuesdays with Dorie,  I reluctantly made the Best-Ever Brownies.  Were they the Best Ever? They were pretty darn good! I thought I was making them according to the directions.  However, I didn’t read the recipe through.  I didn’t beat the eggs and sugar till thick, pale and doubled in volume, and it never got folded into the chocolate mixture.  Actually, I thought I might have ruined them but, after mixing all the ingredients, I wasn’t about to start over.  Having made brownies many times in the past, I know that most brownies are made from a one bowl batter. No beating eggs separately!  I thought they would probably be fine; at least I hoped for that.  Well, they were way better than fine! They were delicious, chocolatey and everything a good brownie should be!  The proof is, my hubby and I can’t walk by the container that holds the brownies, without sneaking a tiny taste. And that is why I wanted to skip this week!
These really were quite easy to make, whether you make them as directed or, as I did! I intended to freeze most of them however, they’re disappearing very fast!

Check out Baking with Julia to see how others did!  Our host this week is Monica of  A Beautiful Mess. You can find the recipe on her blog. 

Happy Tuesday everyone and Happy Thanksgiving to all!

These came out great…moist, chewy and perfect

Chewy and decadent