Temperamental Brownies

Maybe. Black cocoa brownies with roasted hazelnuts and whipped cream might save you from a dramatic meltdown.

Try: Temperamental Brownies

480 sugar
1.5 tsp vanilla
5 eggs
200 g butter
1/2 tsp salt
150 g black cocoa powder
150 g ap flour
250 g dark chocolate chips
Roasted hazelnuts to taste

Wake up with an unexpected feeling of exuberance and possibility. Contemplate seizing the momentum by going on a constitutional walk or doing some light yoga. Instead, decide that you will have dessert for breakfast.

Melt the butter and let it cool until it ribbons over itself. Meanwhile, determine that you will spend the evening delivering the brownies to your friends; you are a benevolent baking
goddess, this impulse has NOTHING to do with your bottomless need for external validation and praise.
Combine your dry ingredients.
Beat the eggs, sugar, and vanilla in a mixing bowl for three minutes on high.
Once the mixture is as pale as your sickly winter pallor, drizzle in half the butter, then the flour.
Begin your descent into a hangry funk.
Add the remaining butter and flour.
The batter should now rest for thirty minutes, but in a heroic act of self-preservation you must skip this step: Sugar is the only thing that can salvage your mood.
Add chocolate chunks and bake at 350 for 20.
Under-bake the brownies.
This is now the perfect occasion to indulge in self-pity, tangible proof that you can’t do anything right. Tell someone.
Eventually, top with whipped cream and toasted nuts. You deserve all the fixings. You have nothing if not your flair for dramatics.

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