You're thinking... "so, why are these so special?" Well, that's what I said, until I made them for a party and everyone went nuts about them. According to my SIL, this is the ONLY brownie recipe you will ever need. Credit to my SIL Cheryl for the recipe.
Serves 6-8
INGREDIENTS
- 3/4 cup All Purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 3/4 cup white sugar
- 2 tablespoons Bourbon Whisky
- 1/3 cup soft butter
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 12 oz semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract (I used barrel aged Bourbon Vanilla extract!)
- 1/2 cup whole walnuts (or pecans or whatever nuts you like, just keep them whole)
- parchment paper
DIRECTIONS
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees
- Grease and line a 8 x 8'' deep oven proof dish with parchment paper
- In small bowl mix flour, baking soda and Kosher salt
- In small pan, on low heat, combine butter, sugar, Bourbon and half the chocolate chips (6oz), cook 1 minute, keep stirring - remove from heat when melted
- Add vanilla extract and beat in one egg at a time to warm chocolate mix
- Gradually incorporate the dry mix into the chocolate mix
- Mix in remaining 6oz chocolate chips and whole nuts
- Pour mix into greased and parchment lined baking dish, cook for 30 minutes – do toothpick test, if it's clean its done. If not, cook upto another 5 minutes maximum.
