Super-moist Double Dark Chocolate Brownies

Total Time: 55 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 35 mins

Ingredients

• 4 ounces unsweetened baking chocolate
• 1/2 cup butter
• 4 large eggs
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 2 cups granulated sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 cup chopped pecans (optional) or 1 cup walnuts (optional)
• 8 ounces ghirardelli sweet dark chocolate, baking bars or 8 ounces other chocolate, bar of your choice, such as 7 oz symphony bar with almonds and toffee chips

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 325°f.
• 2 grease and flour 13x9-inch pan or spray it with bakers joy.
• 3 melt the unsweetened chocolate and butter.
• 4 cool (see note below).
• 5 beat the eggs, salt, and sugar until ingredients are light and creamy.
• 6 fold in the chocolate/butter mixture and the vanilla.
• 7 add flour and beat until batter is smooth.
• 8 if using optional nuts, fold in now.
• 9 pour half of batter in pan and spread to cover bottom.
• 10 break candy bars in half and place over batter.
• 11 spoon remaining batter on top and spread as evenly as possible.
• 12 bake 23-35 minutes or until set.
• 13 do not overbake.
• 14 cool completely.
• 15 with serrated knife, cut into squares.
• 16 melting chocolate: i place the butter and chocolate in a small glass bowl and sit the bowl on the burner to my drip coffee maker when i first start this recipe.
• 17 it melts the chocolate to perfection, and cleanup is so easy.