Cristina's Brownies
- 1 lb. walnut halves
- large pieces
- 1-1/4 cup unsifted cocoa powder
- 1-1/4 cup unsifted all-purpose flour
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 3 sticks unsalted butter
- 3 cups granulated sugar
- 7 eggs
- 2 tsp. vanilla extract
- Adjust a rack one-third up from the bottom of the oven and preheat to 350F.
- Line a 13x9x2-inch pan with foil (turn pan upside down and mold foil to the pan, including up--down?--the sides, turn pan over and fit foil tightly into pan).
- Take a piece of butter, place it in the pan (on the foil), and place in the oven only until the butter is melted.
- Then, with crumpled wax paper, spread the butter all over the foil and set the pan aside.
- Sift together into a large bowl the cocoa, flour and salt and set aside.
- In a 3-quart heavy pan over low heat, melt the butter.
- Remove the pan from the heat and stir in the sugar, then the eggs two or three at a time, and then the vanilla.
- Add the butter mixture to the sifted dry ingredients, pouring it in all at once.
- Beat on low speed (of a mixer) or by hand, scraping the bowl as necessary, until ingredients are completely mixed.
- Stir in the walnuts.
- Turn the mixture into the prepared pan and bake for 50 to 60 minutes untila toothpick gently inserted in the middle comes out clean, but with a bitof chocolate clinging to it.
- Do not overbake or they will be dry.
- Cool in the pan at room temperature.
- When the bottom of the pan is just tepid, cover the pan with a length of wax paper and then with a flat cookie sheet or board.
- Turn the pan and the sheet over, then remove thepan and slowly peel off the foil.
- Leave the cake upside down and transfer to the refrigerator overnight.
- Cover the chilled cake with a cookie sheet or board and turn it over again, leaving the cake right side up.
- Remove the sheet and wax paper from the top of the cake.
- Using a long, strong sharp knife, cut the cake into 24 extra-large brownies (or smaller if you prefer).
walnut halves, cocoa, flour, salt, butter, granulated sugar, eggs, vanilla extract
Taken from www.foodgeeks.com/recipes/2129 (may not work)