May 29th Red Wine Brownies

The past few days have just been recovering from the weekend and making yummy dinner and dessert. A fun dinner with roomies on Monday, and then on Tuesday Adam Stone came over to make red wine brownies.

Aussie fam dinner on Monday. Left to right: Aya, myself, Juan, Emma, Eadrian

Aussie Fam eating dinner before brownies on Tuesday. Left to right: Max, Adam, myself, Emma, Aya

Adam graciously brought baking supplies from his house for us to use. A little back-story: I created my own red wine brownie recipe senior year in college when I made that my dessert for my capstone fine dining meal. I’ve included the recipe here and the instructions as well. If there are two things in this world that pair well, they’re red wine and chocolate. Come on, you practically have all the ingredients at home already to try them! I know you want to test it out :) It felt great baking again with Adam and even though we had a little mishap getting the brownies out of the oven without an oven mit, we made do and were successful in the end.

In an 8x8 pan-

1 Cup AP Flour

¾ Cup cocoa powder

2 Cup granulated sugar

½ tsp salt

½ tsp baking powder

3 large eggs

1 stick unsalted butter

¼ Cup vegetable oil (sometimes my mom makes brownies healthier by using applesauce instead of oil, and you can’t even taste the different!)

2 tsp vanilla extract

3/4 Cup red wine (depends how boozy you want the brownies! I usually do a full cup or so. Any red wine works from what I have tried)

¾ Cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

Instructions:

-Preheat the oven to 350F. Lightly grease an 8x8 pan.

-Put all of the ingredients into a large mixing bowl in the order in which they’re written

-Stir and fold the batter in with a soft spatula, making sure to get all the dry clumps out. Stop when smooth.

-Bake the brownies for 20 minutes and insert a knife or toothpick to see if brownie mix is setting. It may have a small amount of batter residue, but not large amounts of batter

-If needed, return back to the oven to finish baking, but not until the point of burning!

-When the toothpick test comes back almost all clean, remove the brownies from the oven, let them cool completely before cutting. Store any leftovers, well-wrapped, at room temperature until use.