Organic Fourth Of July Brownies
By: Molly Whitcomb
Published: Thursday, December 10, 2009 - 4:53pm

Ingredients




9 ounces of organic semi-sweet chocolate chips
4 ounces of organic butter - 1 stick
3/4 cup organic sugar 
2 ounces organic white flour
a pinch of salt
teaspoon scant ½  baking powder
2 organic free-range eggs
teaspoon scant ½  vanilla (optional)
3 tablespoons brandy
4 ounces of organic walnuts, well chopped

Preparation

1 Preheat oven to 367 degrees. 2 Grease a 9x9 baking pan, and put into a big piece of parchment paper so that it sticks up over the sides of the pan. 3 Put the chocolate chips and butter into a porcelain dish and zap for about 1 1/2 minutes.  Stir to mix well, making sure the chips are reasonably melted. 4 Stir in the sugar. 5 Then Stir in the flour. 6 Then stir in the eggs, one at a time. 7 Add the vanilla and brandy. 8 Add walnuts. 9 Pour into the pan and bake for about 30 minutes. 10 As soon as you can, using the sticking-up parchment paper, lift the brownies out onto a cooling rack.  When cool, transfer to a cutting board and cut carefully into squares.  I like my brownies small, but any size you like is okay.  Also, I always trim off the outside edges before cutting the brownies so that they are all uniform.  My family really enjoys munching on the edge bits I cut off.

About


This recipe was made for the Fourth of July this year to be organic because I have cancer and i'm being as careful as I can about what I eat.  But my nutritionist put chocolate and walnuts on the list of foods I can eat (in moderation), so brownies seemed like an excellent idea for the Fourth of July. But I'm not to eat hardly any sugar, so cutting the brownies into 1 inch squares seemed like a good idea.  I found organic chocolate chips at New Seasons grocery store.