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Brownies Recipe

Ingredients

·         1 cup cake flour (harina para repostería)

·         ^½   teaspoon baking powder (This is just a small part of an envelope of Royal baking powder.)

·         ^½ teaspoon salt (or less)

·         1 cup sugar ( You can use brown if you are more health conscious but then use slightly more.)

·         ^½ shortening (softened butter or margarine, preferably but could also be less strong olive oil.)

·         2 eggs

·         1 teaspoon vanilla extract

·         2^½ squares of melted dark chocolate ( This means BIG squares( 2 ounces each, like “Fondant” or “Valor” , not little squares; also, the higher the percentage of pure chocolate, the better ( over 70%).

  OR

·         6 tablespoons of unsweetened cocoa powder (best bought in natural health food store!) and 2 extra tablespoons of melted butter.

·         1 cup chopped walnuts

Instructions

Grease pan with slight bit of butter or oil , then flour (small amount of flour)

Mix together the flour, baking powder, salt, and cocoa powder if used

In another bowl, mix the soft butter or margarine and the sugar together until it’s “fluffy.”

Then add the vanilla and the melted chocolate cooled a bit if this is what you’ve used.

Mix all these ingredients together until it’s VERY smooth.

Add the dry ingredients.

Add the nuts.

Preheat oven for 10 minutes to 180º to 200ª (depending on strength of oven)  ( continued on p.2)

Bake for 25 to 35 minutes. The baking time depends on size of baking pan. If you use a bigger pyrex pan (35 cms. Or more on inside) the baking time will be less. If you use a smaller but slightly higher baking pan ( 27 or28 cms.), it will be more. (I personally prefer the latter.) If your oven is not so strong, add 2 or 3 minutes.)

You will know the brownies are done if you stick a toothpick into them and it comes PRACTICALLY dry.  Then turn off oven, leave brownies for no more than 5 minutes and then remove from oven.

If you follow this recipe exactly, you will have perfect brownies. J