Homemade Fudgies - Chocolate Fudge Brownies

What's your favorite brownie?
Where can we buy them?

Well, mine's easy. KFC. Yup! I sure love those KFC Signature Brownies - chewy base brownies with chocolate glaze and choco chip toppings.  Definitely, a choco overloaded goodness!

If you like them as much as I do, you are in sheer luck cause I just bumped into a recipe, which with little bits of modification, tastes as good as KFC's brownies. Now, we can make as many of our favorite brownies at home >:)

Baked Brownie Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tsp salt
• 2 Tbsp cocoa powder (Bensdorp)
• 275 grams bitter-sweet chocolate, coarsely chopped (Nova)
• 1 cup unsalted butter, cut into 1-inch pieces
• 1 tsp instant coffee powder (NESCAFÉ Classic)
• 1 1/2 cups + 2 Tbsp white sugar
• 1/4 cup packed light brown sugar
• 5 eggs, at room temperature
• 2 tsp vanilla extract

Procedure:

1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease and line 9x13 inch baking pan.
2. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, salt, and cocoa powder. Set aside.
3. Put the chocolate, butter, and instant coffee powder in a large bowl and set it over a saucepan of simmering water (you may opt to use a double boiler for this), stirring occasionally, until the chocolate and butter are completely melted and smooth. Turn off heat, but keep the bowl over the water and add the white and brown sugar. Whisk until completely combined, then remove bowl from the pan. Mixture should be at room temperature.
4. Add 3 eggs to the chocolate mixture and whisk until combined. Add remaining eggs and whisk until combined. Add the vanilla and stir until combined.
5. Sprinkle flour mixture over the chocolate mixture. Use a rubber spatula, fold the flour mixture into the chocolate until just a bit of the flour mixture is visible.
6. Pour batter into prepared pan. Smooth the top. Bake for 30 minutes until a toothpick inserted into the center of the brownies comes out with a few moist crumbs sticking to it.
7. Let the brownies cool completely. Remove from pan. cut into squares and chill.

Foodnotes:

> For step 4, do not over-beat the batter as this may result to a cakey textured brownies.

> For step 5, remember to use a spatula (not a whisk) to fold the flour mixture into the chocolate mixture.

> You may add some nuts in the recipe.

written by: Shobe