Easy Baby Brownies from the Silver Palate @LucyBurdette

LUCY BURDETTE: It's hard to follow the raging success of the Black Magic Cake that I shared a couple weeks ago to kick off the countdown to THE INGREDIENTS OF HAPPINESS (coming July 4.) But I will try! I’ve made these little brownies from the Silver Palate cookbook many times, starting back in the 1990's. They are very good for a potluck or other party, as they can be cut into tiny squares, so that many people get a taste. The cookbook says you can divide them into 64 brownies, but I have never managed to get them that small!

chocolate syrup is MIA

Ingredients

6 ounces, semi-sweet chocolate

1/4 cup good quality chocolate syrup

8 tablespoons a.k.a. one stick unsalted butter

1 teaspoon vanilla extract.

Two eggs, lightly beaten

3/4 cup white sugar

Pinch of salt

1/2 cup unbleached white flour.

Preheat the oven to 350 and butter an 8 x 8" pan.

Melt the chocolate over low heat on the stove, or in the microwave. When the chocolate is melted, add the stick of butter and stir until the butter is melted and combined with the chocolate.

Stir in the vanilla, followed by the eggs, and mix this well.

In another small bowl, stir together the flour, sugar, and salt. Blend this into the chocolate butter mixture.

Scrape into the prepared pan and bake at 350 for half an hour. Let the brownies cool completely before you cut them into squares.

On the way to a pool party, but some appear to be missing!

About THE INGREDIENTS OF HAPPINESS:

Is there a recipe for the perfect life?

Thirty-two-year-old ‘happiness guru’ Dr. Cooper Hunziker has it all—a dream job as assistant psychology professor at Yale University, a soon-to-be published self-help book, The Happiness Connection, and the perfect guy. But there’s a problem. Cooper isn’t happy.

Of course, it doesn’t help that she’s facing cut-throat competition for her tenure at Yale, an accusation of plagiarism that could cost her everything, or that her new book has irritated the department chairman, who assigns her to co-lead a happiness group at the New Haven library.

As her friendship with the other ladies in the group flourishes, Cooper finds herself questioning her choices. Forced to face a life-changing betrayal, a gargoyle’s wisdom, and her own traumatic past, can she navigate her own path to happiness?

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