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Fudgy cocoa brownie

Ingredients
1/2 cup unsalted butter, melted 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
and hot 1/2 cup all purpose (or plain) flour
1 tablespoon cooking oil, (olive 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa
oil or coconut oil are fine) powder
1 1/8 cup superfine sugar, (caster 1/4 teaspoon salt
sugar or white granulated sugar)*
2 large eggs
Instructions
> Preheat oven to 350°f (175°c).
> Lightly grease an 8-inch square baking pan with cooking oil spray.
> Line with parchment paper (or baking paper); set aside.
> Combine hot melted butter, oil and sugar together in a medium-sized bowl.
Whisk well for about a minute.
> Add the eggs and vanilla; beat until lighter in colour (another minute).
> Sift in flour, cocoa powder and salt. Gently fold the dry ingredients into the
wet ingredients until just combined (do not over beat as doing so well affect
the texture of your brownies).
> Pour batter into prepared pan, smoothing the top out evenly. (optional: top
with chocolate chunks or chocolate chips.)
> Bake for 20-25 minutes, or until the centre of the brownies in the pan no
longer jiggles and is just set to the touch (the brownies will keep baking in the
hot pan out of the oven). If testing with a toothpick, the toothpick should come
out dirty for fudge-textured brownies.
> Remove and allow to cool to room temperature before slicing into 16
brownies.

Optional add ins:


> Crushed walnuts, peanuts, almonds, pecans, chocolate chips, peanut butter
chips, chocolate chunks, dried fruit (cranberries, raisins, etc)

Notes
*regular white, granulated, sugar can be used if you can't find caster sugar. For
even fudgier brownies, use half white and half light brown sugar!

Tips and tricks:


Whisk your butter and sugar really well.
2. Beat in your eggs for a good minute. This step is crucial for that crackly top
3. Do not over beat your batter once the flour and cocoa powder are added.
That creates air pockets in the batter which will give you cake-like textured
brownies.
4. Try not over bake them. Check them at around the 15 minute mark and keep
your eye on them. As some ovens run hotter than others, timing is a guide
only. Our oven bakes them at exactly 21:30 minutes. Another oven we tested
them in baked them at 18:40 minutes. You can go a little bit over if you like
them set a bit more, but i don't recommend it if you're looking for the fudgiest
brownies in this lifetime.
5. I bake my brownies on the top shelf in the oven. I find the middle shelf
cooks them a lot faster and dries them out. If your oven runs hotter at the top
half, move them to the middle shelf.

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