dark guinness® brownies

Ingredients

• Servings: 1
• cooking spray with flour
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 3/4 cup dark cocoa powder (such as hershey's® special dark)
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 8 ounces bittersweet chocolate (such as ghirardelli®), chopped
• 3/4 cup white chocolate chips (such as ghirardelli®)
• 6 tablespoons butter at room temperature, cut into cubes
• 1 cup white sugar
• 4 eggs, room temperature
• 1 1/4 cups irish (such as guinness® extra ), room temperature and foam skimmed off
• 1/2 cup chopped pecans (optional)
• 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips (such as nestle® toll house®)
• 1 tablespoon sifted confectioners' sugar, or as needed

Recipe

Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 25 mins Ready Time: 1 hr 25 mins


• place oven rack in the center position. preheat oven to 350 degrees f (175 degrees c). spray a 9x13-inch baking dish with cooking spray.
• whisk flour, cocoa powder, and salt together in a bowl.
• melt bittersweet chocolate, white chocolate chips, and butter in the top of a double boiler over simmering water, stirring frequently and scraping down the sides with a rubber spatula to avoid scorching. remove from heat.
• beat white sugar and eggs together in a large bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. slowly add melted chocolate mixture and beat until just combined. add flour mixture, 2 to 3 tablespoons at a time, until just combined. whisk in until batter is thin; fold in pecans.
• pour batter into the prepared baking dish; sprinkle semisweet chocolate chips over batter.
• bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of the brownies comes out with moist crumbs, 25 to 30 minutes. cool to room temperature; dust top with confectioners' sugar.