Beguiling Brownies
Source of Recipe
Internet
List of Ingredients
8-oz. semisweet or 6-oz. bittersweet baking chocolate squares
1/4 cup butter
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 tsp. each cinnamon and nutmeg
Pinch allspice
2 eggs
1 cup flour
2/3 cup whipping cream Recipe
1. Heat oven to 350ºF and line an 8-in. baking dish with foil. Grease foil.
2. In a microwave-safe bowl, melt 2 squares of chocolate and butter on HIGH for 1 1/2 minutes or until the butter is melted. Alternately, melt chocolate with butter over LOW heat. Stir until chocolate is melted. Stir in 1/2 cup of the sugar and spices. Stir in 1 egg until well-blended. Stir in flour until mixture is well-blended. Spread batter in pan.
3. Cook remaining chocolate (6 squares if using semisweet, 4 squares if using bittersweet) and cream in microwave-safe bowl on HIGH 1 1/2 minutes; stir until chocolate is melted.
4. Beat remaining 1/4 cup sugar and remaining egg in small bowl with electric mixer on high speed for 1 minute until thick and lemonyellow-coloured. Beat in chocolate/cream mixture. Pour over batter in pan.
5. Bake 35 minutes to 40 minutes or until the top begins to set and edges pull away from sides of pan. Cool in pan. Run knife around edge of pan to loosen brownies from sides. Lift from pan using foil as handles. Dust with icing (powdered) sugar and decorate with candy hearts.
Makes 16 brownies.
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