Espresso Brownies – Coffee + Chocolate

If mixing chocolate into your coffee can make you smarter, then can we assume you’ll also get smarter when you mix coffee into your chocolate?

If coffee and chocolate are good for you, then can we assume that these Espresso Brownies are going to do more than just make you happy?

If you’ve sampled Marge’s Linzer Torte and you now love and trust her, then we can assume that you’re primed to fall deeply and passionately in love with her Espresso Brownies.

Espresso Brownies

• 1/2 lb butter
• 5 squares unsweetened baking chocolate, (2 1/2 ounces)
• 2 c sugar
• 4 eggs, slightly whipped
• 1 c all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 t vanilla
• 2 tablespoons instant espresso coffee

Preheat oven to 350F.

In a pot over medium heat, slowly melt butter and chocolate, stirring constantly, then cool a little. Add remaining ingredients one at a time, in order, and mix well after each ingredient.

Use parchment paper to line a 9×13-inch metal baking pan. Pour in batter. Bake for about 25 minutes. Cool, then cut into 40 portions. Freezes well. For thinner brownies, use a larger pan.

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Final notes:

• Check your pronunciation of these 6 words that everyone mispronounces, including espresso.
• What do these Espresso Brownie’s and Katharine Hepburn have in common?
• I’m not advocating cigarettes and chocolate milk but Rufus Wainwright makes ’em sound pretty smooth:

cigarettes and chocolate milk

these are just a couple of my cravings

everything it seems i like’s a little bit stronger

a little bit thicker

a little bit harmful for me

if i should buy jelly beans

have to eat them all in just one sitting

everything it seems i like’s a little bit sweeter

a little bit fatter

a little bit harmful for me

and then there’s those other things

which for several reasons we won’t mention

everything about them is a little bit stranger

a little bit harder

a little bit deadly

it isn’t very smart

tends to make one part so broken-hearted

sitting here remembering me

always been a shoe made for the city

go ahead, accuse me of just singing about places

with scrappy boys faces

have general run of the town

playing with prodigal songs

takes a lot of sentimental valiums

can’t expect the world to be your raggedy andy

while running on empty

you little old doll with a frown

you got to keep in the game

maintaining mystique while facing forward

i suggest a reading of ‘a lesson in tightropes’

or ‘surfing your high hopes’ or ‘adios kansas’

it isn’t very smart

tends to make one part so broken-hearted

still there’s not a show on my back

holes or a friendly intervention

i’m just a little bit heiress, a little bit irish

a little bit tower of pisa whenever i see you

so please be kind if i’m a mess

cigarettes and chocolate milk