I'm slowly working through the recipes I missed before I joined Tuesdays with Dorie and Week 2 of TWD was all about chocolate! Four types of chocolate, in fact. In a brownie. {Actually, the recipe called for 3 ounces of unsweetened chocolate, but I used semi-sweet instead, and it turned out great!}

Using the best chocolate I could find (Callebaut) made these brownies taste even better. As well, the crunch from the pecans that I used was a nice contrast to the chocolate.

Recipe: Quintuple Chocolate Brownies

You can find the recipe for Quintuple Chocolate Brownies in the book Baking: From My Home to Yours (affiliate link) by Dorie Greenspan. To see how a few of the early TWD adopters fared, click Laurie of quirky cupcake, Michelle of Sugar and Spice, and April of Abby Sweets.

Yield: This recipe made 24 regular-sized cupcakes.

Tasting Notes
They were the best brownies I've ever tasted! And my nephew and daughters had to earn their brownie by posing for some food photography! In the end, they thought it was worth it! {However, one picked off all the chocolate-coated purple sunflower seeds and gave them to me. Another didn't like the nuts, but I had only put nuts in half the batch so she hunted for one without the offending ingredient. And another wanted hers without frosting! Besides that, they were a huge hit!} Other Brownie recipes you may like:
• Brownie Pops
• French Chocolate Brownies

For Mother’s Day a couple years ago, my daughter’s teacher collected favorite recipes from each student and compiled them into a booklet. It was and is a treasured gift for a foodie like me. One of the best recipes in this handmade book was one called “Best Brownies”.

I’ve made these brownies over and over, and they have the qualities I love in a brownie: cakey, chocolate-y, never-fail, and everyone likes them. Well, one daughter likes them with icing and the other without. They can’t even agree on brownies! :)

For a Barn Dance and BBQ that we went to on the weekend, I decided to make brownie pops and stick them into a half a watermelon for the dessert table. They garnered lots of oohs and aahs, and even the local flies liked them. Here I thought I was getting a nice picture of the brownie pops in the watermelon only to have a fly figure I needed some help with the food styling!

Recipe: Brownie Pops

Makes: 1 8x8 pan or 2 dozen pops or minis

Ingredients: