I made these last night to test for a dinner I am having. I thought I would serve with ice cream. These brownies are so good you don't need the ice cream. Best home made recipe I have found.

It was awesome and good!

These are amazing brownies. I made them just because I had a chocolate craving and they did the job. I added 1/2 a cup of chocolate chips as well for double chocolate chewy brownies. They are amazing. Thank you for this recipe!!!

Was disappointed...
I would add 1/4 tsp baking soda, reduce the nuts to ~1/4 cup, and only cook for 20 mins if I made this again.

Hi Buddy,

Sorry you were disappointed and there were too many walnuts in the brownies you made and that they were overbaked.

If you prefer cake-like brownies instead of chewy ones like this recipe makes, try using a recipe for cake-like brownies instead of modifying this one. Also, to avoid overbaking the brownies, don't set a timer and walk away! In this recipe, there was an approximate time given, but the best way to determine that the brownies are done is to bake "until brownies begin to shrink from sides of pan".

There are many factors in baking that determine length of time to cook. Aluminum pans, glass pans, steel pans, double insulated pans, all take different lengths of time to bake and create various kinds of crusts. Even the color of your pan (dark steel, bright aluminum, glass, etc) will greatly affect the outcome.

How large your oven is, whether it bakes at the correct temperature, whether or not you preheated your oven for 15 minutes before baking, and where you position the baking pan, and even if your oven has a fan or is well insulated are all factors that affect baking time.

For this reason, it's best to check 5-10 minutes before the end of the baking time to see how things are going (in this recipe, that would be at the 15-20 minute mark). Then, when you see that the brownies are beginning to pull away from the sides of the pan, you'll know they are done and you won't overbake based on the timer.

Hope this helps!

-- CM

Wow. I am very happy with this recipe. I was told that it was my turn to bake for movie night at my friends but I didn't have any thing to bake so I found this. It was super quick and easy. Thanks!

Thanks for this recipe and many others; I have a recipe project due and I have used many of yours. Thanks!

My daughter talked me into making brownies from scratch. I thought it was going to be difficult. 1. This was so easy, I will never make box brownies again! 2. OMG - even before the brownies were in the oven I could tell from the batter alone these were going to be the best I've ever had! I never lick the bowl, and this time I couldn't get enough of the batter. Just waiting (impatiently!) for the brownies to come out of the oven! Thanks for the recipe!

Totally love this recipe. I've made these 3 times in the past ten days, and had experimented with adding different chips and flavours each time, and then only today read in the comments other people's experimentations that are much like my own.

I use 2 semi sweet and 2 bakers choc blocks, no nuts, a layer of chips (today am using Reeses's peanut butter chips, and last time used white chocolate chips - SO YUMMY - and the first time added no chips. And I bake them for twenty minutes in a glass square pan. Oh also I add a dash of ground cinnamon to the chocolate/butter/sugar mixture before adding vanilla extract, salt, and eggs and flour.

Superb!

lol I changed it a bit. I doubled the chocolate and butter and sugar but kept everything else the same and they turned out soooooo good. thanx!

OOoooeeeyy gooeeey perfect brownies, I am diabetic and used Truvia instead of sugar... WOW... thank you!!!!

I just made these on a whim because I had unsweetened chocolate I wanted to use up. These were great! I will make these again.