Alice Medrich's best cocoa brownies from Food52 by Alice Medrich

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  • MollyPellecchia on November 30, 2024

    Very similar process to David Lebovitz’s recipe with a larger yield. Used natural cocoa powder & baked at the longer end of the time.

  • a2cook on April 11, 2020

    Very good, but not great. Donna Hay’s Molten Brownies are much, much better! The cocoa you use makes a huge difference in this recipe, so make sure you use one you love. I tried it with 5 different cocoas: Guittard Cocoa Rouge was my favorite and makes this a 5/5 recipe. Valrhona and Pernigotti were very good. Bernsdorp was good, but a little too bitter. Callebaut Natural was just ok.

  • milgwimper on May 25, 2019

    I have been making these for years and they are delicious, fudgy, and easy to make.

  • e_ballad on May 24, 2019

    Completely worthy of the hype!

  • chawkins on September 26, 2018

    Great fudgey brownies and no mixer is required. Had to bake mine for the high end of the specified time range even in the counter top oven.

  • Rutabaga on January 22, 2017

    When making these again, I had trouble getting the cocoa powder, butter, and sugar mix as hot as directed in the recipe. I ended up leaving the mixture in the water bath on the stove for more than half an hour without success. Finally, I took it off the heat and added the vanilla and eggs. It became a smooth mixture at that point, and baked into super fudgy brownies after about half an hour in the oven. Perhaps this happened because I had tripled the recipe; maybe it's difficult to get a larger mixture as hot using this method. Next time, I wouldn't bother waiting it out.

  • Rutabaga on April 23, 2016

    Just like damazinah said, these brownies are super fudgy, but without that raw dough taste. My husband and four-year-old loved them. We doubled the recipe and baked them in a 9x13 Pyrex pan for 30 minutes. Because I was short 1/4 cup of cocoa powder, I added two ounces of unsweetened chocolate, but otherwise followed the recipe as written.

  • damazinah on February 27, 2016

    A fantastic brownie, with a rich, deep chocolate flavor. The centers are perfectly fudgy & gooey, but without that not-quite-baked consistency that many brownies seem to have.

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