Brownies for a Crowd
Oh you guys. I need to come back down from this state of giddiness that made me walk into a wall after Malcolm McDowell and Aaron Douglas hugged me goodbye this afternoon. I’m afraid I’ll gush so much you’ll lose your breakfast.
So if you haven’t heard – and I haven’t been driving you crazy with my tweets – I somehow wound up spending the weekend cooking for Leonard Nimoy, Malcolm McDowell, Sid Haig, Aaron Douglas, Tahmoh Penikett and a bunch of the guys from Twilight. And I can’t wait to tell you all about it, but I won’t do a very good job of it now. I’m done. W is snoring beside me and I’m about to join him. I just set my alarm for 6:30, and I need more than 5 hours this time.
I’ll fill you in tomorrow – when hopefully the photographer will send along pictures. I’ll leave you with my favourite big-batch-brownie recipe. Double this and bake it in a rimmed baking sheet (I buy them at Brown’s downtown – bring cash) for even more people. Easy. To fancy them up, cut them straight from the pan using a round cookie cutter or the open end of a tomato paste tin – skewer them on lollipop sticks from the craft store and you have yourself some brownie pops.
Brownies for a Crowd
8 oz. semisweet chocolate, chopped
1/2 cup butter, cut into pieces
1 1/4 cups sugar
2 tsp. vanilla
4 large eggs
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 cup cocoa
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2-3/4 cup chocolate chips or chopped walnuts or pecansPreheat oven to 350F.
In a small saucepan or a bowl in the microwave, melt the chocolate and butter over low heat. Stir until smooth and if you used a pot, pour into a bowl.
Stir in the sugar, vanilla and eggs; blend well. Add the flour, cocoa and salt and stir until almost combined; add the chocolate chips and stir just until blended.
Spread into a 9″x13″ pan that has been lined with parchment or sprayed with nonstick spray; bake for 25-30 minutes, or until just set. (A toothpick inserted will come out with lots of moist crumbs sticking to it.) Makes about 2 dozen.
April 25 2010 | cookies & squares | 15 Comments »
