I’ve been trying to post twice a week: Tuesday, and Thursday or Friday. As of yesterday, I had 3 posts as rough drafts in Google docs. By 11pm, still none of them were finished (let alone polished), and none of them felt like the right thing to say this week at all. I turned off my screens and got ready for bed.
Sunday this week I didn’t feel well, and Monday I got some bad news. I was sad and therefore moping. Justin suggested that I do something to take my mind off it. I think what he really wanted me to do was call an appliance repairman to fix our top oven, which I had forgotten to do last week. …but I really didn’t feel like making phone calls, so instead I decided to make brownies.
I cited my current patheticness, and the fact that I’d made a berry crisp the night before, as good reasons to skip the “Justin style” brownies I usually make and go for the chocolatiest durn brownies I could find in my repertoire. I have no fewer than 14 different scratch brownie recipes saved over on Pinterest; on a sad Monday, I turned to these babies.
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These little guys have four layers of chocolate flavor: (1) cocoa powder, (2) melted chocolate, (3) chopped solid chocolate, and (4) chocolate chips.
“My girl, Sally” (as I call her, because she’s my go-to baking blogger), whose recipe it is, calls them “seriously fudgy homemade brownies.” That is an accurate description…but I’ve nicknamed them “candy bar brownies.” Biting into one is almost as rich as biting into a straight bar of chocolate, but with the heartier texture of a crackly-top, full-inch-thick brownie.
The baking successfully distracted me and cheered me up, and the brownies themselves were extremely addicting satisfying. I accidentally ate them for dinner last night, because while I was cutting them to share at the meeting I was headed to, I kept sneaking the small edge pieces, which was just enough to make me forget about being hungry while I went over bedtime routines with the babysitter who had just arrived, and then I left in a hurry for the meeting without eating any real food. Oops! I ended up having the kids’ rejected, room-temperature grilled cheese triangles when I got home later. Second dinner of champions.?
Anyway. For stress-baking (or stress-eating, if you must), these particular brownies are me-approved. Click below to try them yourself!
Seriously Fudgy Homemade Brownies from Sally’s Baking Addiction
If you have a favorite scratch brownie recipe you think I should try before I definitively name my winners, comment below with a link or email it to me.