Katharine Hepburn's Brownies: A Recipe For Home-Wrecking?

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa
  • 1 stick butter
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1 cup broken up walnut or pecan pieces (for better flavor, toast the nuts at 350 F for about 5 minutes)
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • Pinch salt

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 325F.

Melt butter in a saucepan with cocoa and stir until smooth.

Remove from heat and let cool for a few minutes.

Whisk in eggs, one at a time.

Stir in vanilla.

In a separate bowl, combine sugar, flour, nuts and salt.

Add to the cocoa-butter mixture. Stir until just combined.

Pour into prepared pan and bake 30-40 minutes. (Do not overbake: Center should still be a little gooey.)

Let cool completely before cutting into squares. If foil lining is used, lift from pan and cut into 16 squares on a cutting board.