These brownies really live up to their name. I usually eat 2-3 brownies in one sitting, but when it comes to Outrageous Brownies, I can only scarf 1 down. My family has made these so many times - there are at least 12 paper copies of the recipe in our recipe cabinet (seriously).
Once you see the ingredients, you might call these un-figure friendly, but I bet to differ! Sure, there's a pound of butter and sure, there's close to 2 pounds of chocolate. BUT! They are so rich and outrageous that you won't be able to go back for seconds! :D
I really hope you enjoy them as much as my family has! SO good.
Here's the recipe: (Thanks, Barefoot Contessa!)
1 lb unsalted butter (4 sticks)
1 lb plus 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips, divided
6 oz unsweetened chocolate
6 extra-large eggs
3 T instant coffee powder (really makes the chocolate pop!)
2 T real vanilla extract
2 1/4 cups sugar
1 1/4 cups flour, divided
1 T baking powder
1 tsp kosher salt
3 cups diced walnut pieces (so yummy in them, but totally optional)
Directions:
Preheat oven to 360 degrees
Grease and flour a 13 x 18 by 1 1/2 in. sheet pan (trust me, you'll need every inch)
Stir together the 1 cup of flour, baking powder and salt. Add to the cooled chocolate mixture. (I find it easiest to stir the dry ingredients together in a very large bowl and add the chocolate mixture to the dry.)
In a separate bowl, toss the walnuts (optional) and 2 cups chocolate chips with the remaining 1/4 cup flour to coat. Add to the chocolate batter and pour into a prepared pan.
Bake for about 30 minutes or until a tester just comes out clean. Halfway through the baking, rap/bang the pan agains the oven shelf to allow air to escape from between the pan and the brownie dough. Cool throughly, refrigerate well (if you can resist that long) and cut into squares. Finish them off with a healthy dusting of powdered sugar, and enjoy!.
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Hey! Just ran across your blog on Food Gawker. It caught my eye b/c I'm a blogger/baker/photography-loving 23 year old, too. Anwyay, I have been trying to find a good go-to brownie recipe and have recently made Bon Apetit's Browned Butter Brownies. They were really good the first time I made them, but I couldn't get them to turn out once I tried to bake them again. SO I'm on a new brownie hunt. I have been tempted to make the Barefoot Contessa's brownies for a while and now I think I'm going to have to. Thanks for the inspiration! :)
ReplyDeleteI love how the first thing I thought of when I saw the title of this post was the Jem theme song..."Jem is truly outrageous, truly, truly, truly outrageous!!" Anyways, those look incredible and so fudgy! I'm totally drooling right now.
ReplyDeleteOutrageous brownies! Truly outrageous! For that much of chocolate I'm definitely making this!
ReplyDelete@ Brittany - I've heard of those brownies, but have yet to try them. I think it's because Ina's are my go-to!
ReplyDelete@ Kathryn - Ha! Now I can't get that out of my head...
@ CarinE - I think if any recipe calls for more than one pound of butter or chocolate it should be mandatory to make.