Brownies

These brownies really are something.
I was told that you can't really make bad brownies unless you burn them. But some brownies are just better than others.

I've made brownies couple times and never they seemed to live up to my expectations. I mean, brownies do have this aura of being extremely yummy and every time they turned out to be "just okay".

Not this time though. The recipe I got inspired by says these are the Perfect Brownies. Perfect - that's a word that comes up often with recipes from google search and rarely the final product really delivers perfect results. But in the end, even the sceptic in me was surprised how *GOOD* these brownies were.

They're nothing fancy, no coffee, no salty sticks, nothing except good quality chocolate and walnuts. Seriously, this can't get any more basic. And yet, the brownies disappear in close distance to family members like nothing else.

Brownies
for 9 brownies you will need:

• 150g 70% bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped
• 120g unsalted butter
• 100g all-purpose flour
• 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
• 200g white sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 1 large yolk
• about 2 pinches of salt to bring up the taste of chocolate
• 1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
• 50g chopped walnuts

1. Adjust oven rack to medium position and preheat oven to 180 degrees C. Grease a small baking pan. In a heatproof bowl over pan of barely simmering water, melt chocolate and butter while stirring from time to time. Remove from heat and let cool slightly.
2. Sift flour and cocoa into medium bowl and set aside. In large bowl, whisk sugar with eggs, yolk, salt, and vanilla until light, about 30 seconds. whisk in chocolate mixture. Using wooden spoon, stir in chocolate mixture until combined. Stir in flour mixture until combined.
3. Pour batter into prepared pan and smooth top. Evenly sprinkle walnuts over top. Bake until just set and toothpick inserted into center comes out with moist crumbs about 30 minutes. Let cool on wire rack about 45 minutes before cutting into squares.