The Adult Brownie from the Bay Area-based supermarket chain Andronico's doesn't contain alcohol, tobacco, or any other "adult" ingredients. It's just a super dense, fudgy chocolate brick spiked with sea salt and coffee. And it's incredibly addictive.
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Editor's note: On Thursdays, Gretchen VanEsselstyn of Chile Pepper Magazine drops by to drop some serious heat. Today, serious heat in an unexpected place. Here at Chile Pepper, we use hot sauce in everything—even dessert. These are some of our...
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When I was a kid, my mom often put a homemade brownie in my lunchbox along with a ham and cheese sandwich, a handful of grapes, and a small bag of Cape Cod potato chips. Not surprisingly, these remain...
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This brownie was created by
Brooks Headley, executive pastry chef at
Del Posto in New York City. If you don't want to splurge on the aceto balsamico tradizionale, you can try reducing a supermarket balsamic vinegar in a nonreactive saucepan. Just be careful in the reduction—let it go too long, and your saucepan is toast.
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Today's Cook the Book recipe, adapted from The Sweet Melissa Baking Book, is for Brooklyn Brownout Cake, basically a chocolate-lover's one-stop shop for chocomadness. Even though the cake as a whole might seem to take more than a bit of...
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This week's Cook the Book is a little different—and sweeter—than most. Usually, we feature one book the entire week, excerpting adapted recipes as the days go by. This week, in honor of Valentine's Day, we've put together a list of...
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This week's Cartoon Kitchen features Serious Eats' cartoonist in residence Larry Gonick's spin on filbert brownies. —Ed Levine...
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If portion control is one of the keys to weight control, these mocha brownie thins, courtesy of the great Karen Barker, pastry chef and co-owner (along with her chef-husband Ben Barker) of the Magnolia Grill in Durham, North Carolina, are...
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Our newest contributor, Ree (aka
The Pioneer Woman) pits run-of-the-mill baking chocolate against Scharffen Berger's stuff in her brownie recipe. And then throws in a Betty Crocker box mix to boot. See which one comes out on top.
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A friend and I were talking this week about how popular some American desserts have become in Paris. There are les brownies and le cake aux carottes and le cheesecake made with Philadelphia, which is what Kraft cream cheese is...
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