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In the Oven: Spicy Brownies

December 3, 2012 by susan

Posting date  is Sunday, December 9th!

Spicy Brownies

Baked Elements – p. 136-7 (See the Baked Note for a Peanut Butter variation.)

Yield: 12 large or 24 small brownies

Ingredients

1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons dark unsweetened cocoa powder (like Valrhona)
1 tablespoon ancho chile powder
2 teaspoons freshly grated cinnamon
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon freshly grated ginger or
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
9 ounces good-quality dark chocolate (60 to 72%), coarsely chopped
2 ounces good-quality milk chocolate, coarsely chopped
8 ounces (2 sticks) unsalted butter, cut into 1-inch cubes
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
1/2 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
5 large eggs, at room temperature

Assembly

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Butter the bottom and sides of a 9-by-13-inch glass or light-colored metal baking pan. Line the pan with parchment paper and butter the parchment. In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, chile powder, cinnamon, salt, and ginger and set aside. Place the chopped chocolate and the butter in the bowl of a double boiler over medium heat and stir occasionally until the chocolate and butter are completely melted and combined. Turn off the heat, but keep the bowl over the water of the double boiler, and add both sugars, whisk until completely combined.

Remove the bowl from the water and let the mixture come to room temperature. Add 3 eggs to the chocolate mixture and whisk until just combined. Add the remaining eggs and whisk until just combined. Do not overbeat the batter at this stage or your brownies will be cakey. Sprinkle the flour mixture over the chocolate. Using a spatula, fold the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients until there is just a trace amount of the flour mixture visible. Pour the brownie mixture into the prepared pan and smooth the top with a spatula.

Bake the brownies for 30 minutes, rotating the pan halfway through the baking time, until a toothpick inserted in the center of the pan comes out with a few moist crumbs. Remove the brownies from the oven and transfer to a wire rack to cool completely before cutting and serving.

The brownies can be stored at room temperature, tightly covered, for up to 4 days.

Excerpted from Baked Elements: Our 10 Favorite Ingredients by Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito. Copyright © 2012 by Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito. Excerpted by permission of Stewart, Tabori & Chang, an imprint of Abrams. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

Filed Under: Baked Elements, In the Oven Tagged With: brownies, elements

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Comments

  1. Erin Star says

    December 4, 2012 at 8:16 pm

    I’ve been looking forward to these! I think I’m going to split the base and do half spicy half peanut butter!

    • SandraM says

      December 5, 2012 at 4:57 pm

      Oh. Well that’s a great idea. I am conflicted about which to do.

  2. Susan says

    December 5, 2012 at 12:14 am

    I think that’s a great idea, Erin! I was wondering how to decide.

  3. Sheri says

    December 5, 2012 at 9:52 am

    Freshly grated cinnamon? Maybe a stick in a spice grinder? Does anyone have any other suggestions?

  4. Erin Star says

    December 5, 2012 at 5:48 pm

    Sheri: you can grate the stick on a fine grater, I use the same microplane I use for zesting! :)

    • Sheri says

      December 6, 2012 at 8:42 am

      That’s what I was thinking, but my sticks are super delicate and it just crumbles instead of grates – I must have Ceylon?

      • Erin Star says

        December 6, 2012 at 8:58 am

        I just used my already ground cinnamon….I used all my sticks making cider!

  5. Dafna says

    December 7, 2012 at 1:25 am

    I tried grating a stick with my spice Microplane, and that is not easy! I too was wondering about using pre-ground cinnamon…

  6. Bourbonnatrix says

    December 7, 2012 at 4:38 pm

    I haven’t baked with you guys in forever, and now that I finally get around to it, I forgot my pictures at work :(

    I used ground cinnamon, and nobody complained :)

  7. Linda says

    December 9, 2012 at 6:13 am

    It’s a bad sign that I forgot about Sunday baking.

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