Best g-d brownies I've ever tasted!

[housewolf]

I happened to catch "Best Thing I Ever Ate" on the Food Network the other night. The food judge, Alex, called out a brownie from a Long Island bakery named "Baked". It looked SO teriffic... oooey, semi-liquidy flor de sel caramel oozing out of the middle, so luscious looking. So I went hunting via google, and found something similar. No, it doesn't have the ooey caramel center, but it IS the BAKED bakery's brownie recipe and can be easily adapted to add the caramel center, though I wanted to just test out the brownie recipe first.

I can't tell you how good a brownie it is! I'm pickey and finikey when it comes to what I like. I've tried many, many brownie recipes over my half-century or so of brownie-eating. These are by far the best I've ever had. Now, to be sure... I used some good Valhrona chocolate, 'cause I only made a half-batch and it only needed 5.5 oz and I happened to have some in the house. But I used regular supermarket butter, a mix of Gold Medal & KA a/p flour, my normal Nielsen-Massey vanilla that I use all the tiime, 1 Tbls Valhrona cocoa, espress powder, the mix of brown & white sugars the recipe calls for, normal super-market eggs and nothing else special. I think these brownies would turn out great with any good chocolate. They're rich and they're fudgy without being under-baked.

I've also found a recipe for a BAKED's Flor de Sel caramel - but a sauce (it's part of BAKED's Sweet & Salty cake that I also can't wait to try). I'm gonna try it and see if it looks like what's in the brownies shown on the tv show and if so, I'll give that a try. It's gonna take something like par-baking half the brownies, adding the caramel, then adding the rest of the brownie batter and finishing baking. I'll let you know how they turn out!

Anyway... you can find the brownie recipe here if you want to give it a try
http://www.globalgourmet.com/food/ild/2009/baked/baked-brownie.html

BTW, BAKED ships their brownies and several other of their baked items
http://bakedshop.com/

Happy eating!

[hippywife]

1. Hey, B!

Found this note on their website:

ATTENTION! Due to the overwhelming response we have received from this week's airing of The Best Thing I Ever Ate on Food Network, all orders received after 10am on Friday, January 29th will ship on Tuesday, February 2nd. We do this because our brownie dance card is full and we want to make sure your order arrives as fresh as possible. So again, thank you for all the love and attention, please be patient with us, and your reward will be sweet!


I think they reeled 'em in.

I just love salty and sweet. I'll be waiting to hear about that cake. :hi:


ETA: Check out the wedding cakes: http://bakednyc.com/page/weddings

[hippywife]

2. I made these brownies last weekend.

Didn't have any espresso powder (so what else is new? LOL) but had some cold coffee leftover from the morning. Nice and strong the way Bill always makes it. I always use a portion of ww flour anyway and added a little more flour to the mix to make up for the added liquid.

I also had some organic dried tart cherries that I reconstituted in the warm chocolate, butter, and coffee mixture.

These really are excellent brownies. Very, very fudgy. Yum!

Thanx for posting this recipe, sweetie. :hi:

[housewolf]

3. So glad you liked them!

Your additions sound heavenly! I'm glad they turned out well for you.

Most of mine went to the folks who fixed the water line leak outside my house that weekend (but that's okay 'cause there were way more brownies than I could eat!). I mean, gosh, when a neighbor comes knocking at your door to tell you that there's water gushing out of the ground down by the sidewalk, and another neighbor who calls a contractor friend on a Sunday afternoon who shows up 45 minutes later, and another one who comes out in the dark to turn the water back on so you can take a shower and then comes out again a little later to turn it back off, what else can you do but offer then all your brownies???? :rofl:

Did you get hit with the same snowstorm this week that hit Texas? I haven't heard any news of such from you area so I hope that if it did come your way, it wasn't too bad.

[hippywife]

5. And I can think of no better use of my 15,000th post

than to thank a very dear friend for once again sharing a delicious recipe.

And to thank all of the C&B'ers for being such a wonderful group of warm people. :hug:


I am so sorry to hear that you had all that water trouble! What a hassle! Sounds like you had the best of support systems to get through it and get it fixed, tho. I would have given them all my brownies, too. LOL

:hug:

[lavenderdiva]

4. I have read that Baked fleur-de-sel caramel takes

at least a day to make. That is why there is a delay between your order and the shipping date. I've found this fantastic blog called 'Delish'. It is comprised of several different people who are cooking their way through the 'Baked' cookbook. They set which dish will be made on what day, and then you make that dish, and post about what you liked and didn't like about it. Its very interesting. They do other dishes that aren't in the 'Baked' cookbook as well. Read about it here:

http://bakeddelish.blogspot.com/

[undergroundnomore]

6. thank you

I might just save this one for Father's Day and make it for my Dad who is a BIG brownie fan