Mexican Chocolate Brownies
- 3/4 stick (6 tablespoons) unsalted butter, cut into pieces
- 3 ounces fine-quality bittersweet chocolate (not unsweetened), chopped
- 2 ounces unsweetened chocolate, chopped
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup whole blanched almonds, toasted until golden and cooled
- 2 large eggs
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- and butter and flour a 9-inch square baking pan, knocking out excess flour.
- In a heavy 1 1/2-quart saucepan melt butter and chocolate over low heat, stirring, until smooth and remove pan from heat.
- Cool chocolate mixture 10 minutes.
- In a food processor process sugar and almonds until ground fine.
- Stir almond mixture into chocolate mixture and add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well with a wooden spoon until mixture is glossy and smooth.
- Stir in flour, salt, and cinnamon until just combined.
- Spread batter evenly in pan and bake in middle of oven 25 to 30 minutes, or until a tester comes out with crumbs adhering to it.
- Cool brownies completely in pan on a rack before cutting into 16 squares.
- Brownies keep, layered between sheets of wax paper in an airtight container at cool room temperature, 5 days.
unsalted butter, bittersweet chocolate, chocolate, sugar, whole blanched almonds, eggs, allpurpose, salt, cinnamon
Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/mexican-chocolate-brownies-13643 (may not work)