Chocolate Brownies (from The Farm Of Beverly Hills)

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 20
• 1 1/2 cups unsalted butter, cut into pieces
• 12 ounces fine-quality bittersweet chocolate, chopped (not unsweetened)
• 6 large eggs
• 1 1/4 cups cake flour (not self-rising)
• 1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder, plus 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder (not dutch process)
• 3 cups sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon salt

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350°f butter and flour a 13- by 9- by 2-inch metal baking pan, knocking out excess flour.
• 2 melt butter with chocolate in a large metal bowl set over a saucepan of barely simmering water, stirring until smooth. remove bowl from pan and whisk in eggs, 1 at a time.
• 3 sift together flour and cocoa powder in a separate bowl and stir into batter with sugar and salt.
• 4 pour batter into pan and bake in middle of oven until top is firm and a tester inserted into center comes out with crumbs adhering, 40 to 45 minutes. cool completely in pan on a rack, about 2 hours, before cutting into 20 squares.