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I consider myself to be a bit of a baking snob - I love the more difficult recipes with hard-to-find ingredients. That said, I am almost ashamed to say my most favorite brownie recipe is an extremely simple one that can be found on the Baker's Chocolate website (www.kraftfoods.com/bakerschocolate) called "Raspberry Truffle Brownies." I usually bring these to potlucks and work luncheons and I always get people begging for the recipe. The brownies themselves look extremely deceiving because they appear to be so rich, but the raspberry makes them absolutely divine. I usually use a finer grade chocolate and a sugar-free seedless raspberry jam to make them. Good luck.

I've been using more or less the same recipe for years that I altered slightly from a very traditional recipe by using brown sugar instead of white and bittersweet or semisweet chocolate instead of unsweetened.

Pre-heat oven to 350F.
Melt 4 oz. of best quality bittersweet chocolate with 1/3 cup of butter.
Remove from heat and add: 1 scant cup of brown sugar, 2 unbeaten eggs, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract (or more, if you like), 1/2 cup flour, pinch of salt.

Mix until there are no flour streaks.

If you want to, add 1/2 cup chopped walnuts or pecans and/or chocolate chunks or chips.

Bake in a buttered 8" square cake pan for 23 minutes. The top should look dry. DO NOT OVERBAKE.

Nashville One Pan Fudge Cake...a recipe from the 1950s still rocks today..
1 stick butter
1 cup sugar
1-1/2 squares dark chocolate
1 pinch salt
3/4 cup flour
1/4 tsp baking powder
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 cups nuts (broken your choice of nuts)

Melt butter, sugar and chocolate together in same pan. Sift flour and baking powder in to pan. Add eggs, vanilla and broken nuts. Add a bit of salt. Blend and pour into well greased square cake pan. Cook at 325 for 35 minutes. Cut into squares while it's hot, but don't remove til cooled. Makes 12 pieces.
adapted from the nashville seasons cookbook

the only way to make brownies.

This late in the day, I'm sure you've probably already made the brownies for the party. I agree with several others...both Nick's & Ina's are some of the best!

2 cups sugar, 5 oz melted unsweetened chocolate, 1.5 sticks melted unsalted butter, 1 tsp vanilla, 4 eggs, 1/2 tsp salt, 1 cup flour, 6 oz semi-sweet chocolate chips (optional), 1 T espresso powder (optional). Bake in a buttered foil-lined jelly roll pan at 350 deg. F for 20 minutes. Top with peppermint stick ice cream. Die happy.

I use a very old recipe from Katharine Hepburn. They're wonderfully fudgy and rich.