Who doesn’t know brownies? They are probably the most famous overseas sweets in our country. They are delicious, rich and chocolaty, but also very simple to make at home. The version that I propose is the basic one, where the only protagonist is chocolate and that’s a lot easy to transform into a gluten free version, simply by replacing the 00 flour with a special gluten-free flour or cornstarch. I used the Thermomix for the preparation of the dough but in the recipe you will find the procedure indicated even for those who do not have this food processor. Americans, as we know, love to overdo it, so there are various versions of these delicious cake cubes: with chocolate glaze, with hazelnuts, walnuts or pecans, flavored with mint or vanilla. Nothing prevents you from enriching the basic recipe with other ingredients of your taste or preparing it in the white version, the blondies. You can serve the brownies with a scoop of cream ice cream, with a vanilla sauce or a cream, or maybe you could be tempted by whipped cream, but they are also perfect this way, alone, accompanied by a tea or a coffee, perhaps your own. American.

Preparation

1

Break up the chocolate and blend it with a mixer.

2

Melt it together with the butter in Bagno Maria.

3

Then combine all the other ingredients and mix until a homogeneous mixture is created.

4

Transfer to a square pan lined with parchment paper.

5

Cook at 180 ° C for 15 minutes. Your brownies will be ready when the surface is slightly cracked. Let them cool completely on a wire rack before cutting them into squares.

Tips and Curiosities on Brownies

Our recipe as we told you in the introduction is the basic one, that is, with the presence of only chocolate. However, for the sweet tooth there are many versions to add other ingredients: hazelnuts or Pecan nuts. But speaking of the history of these cookies: do you know how they were born? Well, they are said to have been prepared for the first time in 1892 in Chicago on the occasion of the celebrations of the 400 years since the discovery of America. A noble woman, a certain Bertha Palmer asked her personal cook to create a sweet that would not cause problems to carry it around the streets, without getting her hands and clothes dirty. Thus they were born the Brownies! Of course today it would be a bit difficult not to get dirty since Brownies have a soft chocolate heart… But what does it matter? Faced with so much delight, licking your fingers is a must …