Bon Appetit Blog Envy Bake-Off

Dear Readers,
I am submitting this dessert recipe for a bake-off contest sponsored by Bon Appetit magazine. This brownie dessert was posted on my Thanksgiving blog but I am rewriting and posting it in this blog and submitting a photo as part of Bon Appetit submission process. You are encouraged to go online and vote for my recipe @ bonappetit.com/go/bakeoff
The deadline for voting is December 13th. Wish me luck.

Decadent Brownies

Ingredients:

• 1 package (10 oz.) Ghirardelli Bittersweet Chocolate squares (62% cacao) plus half of another 10 0z. package
• 1 cup of sugar
• 1/3 cup of butter
• 2 TB. of coffee(liquid)
• 2 large eggs
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 3/4 cup flour plus 2 TB. of flour
• 1/4 tsp. salt
• 1 cup of chopped walnuts
• 2 TB. Kahula

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 325
• Line a 8 inch pyrex pan with foil and grease
• Heat in saucepan on low heat: chocolate, sugar ,butter, coffee stirring until smooth
• Pour into a medium bowl and whisk in eggs one at a time till mixed.
• Add vanilla, flour and salt and stir well.
• Add chopped nuts and stir well
• Bake 25-30 minutes until toothpick comes clean from the center
• Cool pan on wire rack and remove cooled brownies from foil
• Serve with whip cream or dust with powdered sugar
• For a festive holiday touch sprinkle peppermint chips over whip cream

This recipe was adapted from one called Nestle Chocolatier Grand Chocolate Brownie Wedges found in a magazine.