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Brownie

Ingredients

  • 3/4 cup cake flour (type 450 wheat flour "tortowa")
  • 2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips (about 500 grams of chocolate)
  • 1 cup unsalted butter (about 8 oz or 225 grams)
  • 1 cup powdered sugar
  • 4 whole eggs
  • 2-3 tbs cocoa powder
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1/2 tsp orange zest

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

  2. In a medium oven-safe bowl add chopped butter and chocolate pieces.

  3. Heat up water in a pot and place the bowl with the butter and chocolate over the pot with the boiling water so that it sits right on top. Use the steam to heat up the butter and chocolate while you stir until they melt evenly.

    Heat up Chocolate chips
  4. Cool off the melted butter with chocolate mixture for at least 15 minutes.

  5. In the meantime, with the hand mixer beat together the eggs, sugar, orange zest and vanilla until the mixture becomes fluffy.

    Eggs beaten
  6. Add the cocoa powder and gently combine it using a spatula.

    chocolate powder
  7. Add the melted chocolate, and continue gently mixing all the wet ingredients together.

  8. Finally, add the flower using a sieve. Mix it into the batter gently with a spatula. Don’t over mix it.

    adding flour
  9. Pour the brownie batter into a square baking dish that's 12" x 12" (30 x 30 centimeters) lined with parchment paper.

    brownie in a pan
  10. Sprinkle few chocolate chips on top and bake it for about 25-30 minutes.

  11. When finished baking, remove it from the oven and let it cool for at least 10 minutes before serving.

    cool off brownie