Kates Best Brownies Recipes

KATE'S BEST BROWNIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°.
• Spray bottom of an 8-inch square baking pan with Baker's Joy.
• Melt together butter and chocolate in small pan over low heat; remove from heat.
• Beat eggs, sugar, salt and vanilla in small mixer bowl at medium speed until very light (about 5 minutes).
• Beat in chocolate mixture.
• Blend in flour.
• Fold in walnuts.
• Spread in prepared pan.
• Bake for 30 to 35 minutes.
• Top will have a shiny crust.
• Cool in pan on wire rack.
• Cut into squares.

KATHARINE HEPBURN'S BROWNIES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 325 degrees.
• Melt butter in saucepan with cocoa and stir until smooth. Remove from heat and allow to cool for a few minutes, then transfer to a large bowl. Whisk in eggs, one at a time. Stir in vanilla.
• In a separate bowl, combine sugar, flour, nuts and salt. Add to the cocoa-butter mixture. Stir until just combined.
• Pour into a greased 8 x 8-inch-square pan. Bake 30 to 35 minutes. Do not overbake; the brownies should be gooey. Let cool, then cut into bars.

KATHARINE HEPBURN'S BROWNIES

Steps:

• 1. Melt together 1 stick butter and 2 squares unsweetened chocolate and take the saucepan off the heat.
• 2. Stir in 1 cup sugar, add 2 eggs and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla, and beat the mixture well.
• 3. Stir in 1/4 cup all-purpose flour and 1/4 teaspoon salt. (In the original recipe, 1 cup chopped walnuts is added here as well.)
• 4. Bake the brownies in a buttered and floured 8-inch-square pan at 325°F for about 40 minutes.
• You can cut these brownies into squares, once they have cooled, and eat them out of the pan, but it is so much nicer to pile them on a fancy plate, from which people are going to eat them with their hands anyway. If you want to smarten up your act you can put a square of brownie on a plate with a little blob of créme fraîche and a scattering of shaved chocolate.