This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie was selected by Anne of Anne Strawberry: classic brownies. One thing we’ve learned as we’ve baked through Dorie’s book is that it is not short on brownie recipes. A quick flip reveals at least 10 variations, from the brrrr-ownies to the brownie buttons and Rick Katz’s brownies for Julia to even white chocolate brownies, there’s something to please everyone. Kind of funny that the simple, classic brownies weren’t chosen until now – there’s even a picture of this recipe in the book, which was almost a guarantee of being picked early on for other recipes. Regardless, I’m glad they were chosen this week, as a classic brownie is always a welcome dessert at our house.
These are super quick and easy to throw together – one bowl, a whisk and a rubber spatula – and you’ll have your brownies in the oven in minutes. I skipped the walnuts in the recipe and was going to add peanut butter chips instead until I discovered the bag in the pantry only had about 4 chips left in it. Oops, hate when that happens! As soon as they were cool, I cut them into squares and grabbed one to share with Shane. Texturally, we really liked them; they were somewhere between cakey and completely gooey. As for the flavor, though, we both found them a bit too bitter. The chocolate flavor was pronounced and rich, but to me they definitely needed more sugar. It was an easy problem to solve fortunately. It’s almost unheard of for brownies to be eaten without ice cream in our house, so a big scoop of ice cream on top (vanilla for her, chocolate peanut butter for him) was the perfect sweet mate for our brownies.
The reigning brownie champion in our house remains these truffle brownies, but it’s always fun to try other recipes. Many thanks to Anne for hosting this week! She shared the classic brownie recipe on her blog, or you can find it on page 88 of Baking: From My Home to Yours.
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I was just thinking of doing that with pb chips yesterday! Luckily, the kids haven’t gotten to them yet. Sorry these were on the bitter side, but like you said–nothing a little ice cream can’t fix!
The classic brownie…YUM! If serving only to adults, I will sometimes add a little cayenne or espresso powder to an added zing!
Ooh, I bet these were great with the chocolate-peanut butter ice cream. Yum. =)
We loved them–but I did frost them. Now I must try your truffle brownie. A suggestion is all it takes and I’m melting butter!
Have a great day Tracey.
I think we all have that fav brownie recipe! I love to try new ones but I know my tired and true brownies will never be replaced! Yours look great!
Oooh, truffle brownies?! I’m with Cindy and trying these soon! Your classic brownies look fabulous, too, Tracey.
PB chips would be good! With only a few chips left in the bag you sounded like you were at my house!
Your brownies are picture perfect and the photos make me want another right now! I used semisweet chocolate and it was perfect I think. Your truffle sounds awesome, too- thanks for the recommendation!
ha I totally think I have stuff in my pantry, only to discover I’ve already eaten it/used it all
These look perfect, esp with the ice cream!
ps. I saw your comment on today’s post—Do you guys like other kinds of beans? If so I bet you could sub pinto or something in that dish!
Sometimes the classic standouts the most!! looks delicious, I would like to have one with chocolate milk
and another heated with mint chocolate on top, and after that another one, just plain!!!
I would be mad too if I wanted PB chips and realized I had none! They might have added that little bit of sweetness. Mine were pretty intense, too, now that I think about it. But they do look fantastic.
I have a tried and true brownie recipe, but I still like trying new ones! Because really, when do you get a bad homemade brownie!
I rarely read posts about desserts. But when I saw “brownie,” I was reminded that I always thought my mother’s brownies were the best in the world. One time I went to visit and she had made brownies for me … from lo fat ingredients. I was very disappointed.
delicious looking brownies looks wonderful
You made my day. I am always the one who thinks food needs more sugar but in this case, I didn’t. I would love to take it as meaning that I am not wanting sugar or more specifically chocolate, as much.
My family is always willing to taste test new brownie recipes! These look so yummy…and I’ll have to re-check your truffle brownies, too~
Both flavors of ice cream work for me!! Looks delicious!
Great, now I want to try those truffle brownies you mention!
Ice cream is a favorite dessert at our house and it’s almost always better with some brownie.
Mmmm love the look of these! Yum.
Yours look yummy! I added white chocolate and milk chocolate chips to sweeten these up a bit.
The brownies look fabulous! I wouldn’t call these the best brownies I’ve made, but they were very good and I loved that it was a nice one-bowl recipe with no hidden fussy steps.
Hmmm…these seem to be missing the nuts…I wish I could have thought of a way to have mine missing the chocolate…lol. Your bundt looked very elegant on that pedestal. And, the hash photo was really great…who knew someone could make hash look so good?
These look like a nice solid brownie. I’m still in search of “the one” in the brownie dept. Those truffle brownies look and sound pretty fabulous.
Those look wonderfully fudgy. And perfect for IC. Wonder how that milk chocolate/brownie IC would be with this.
Brownies and ice cream together are the best! Cream cheese frosting would be good on not-too-sweet brownies too!