You guys. The best thing to make when it's been rainy and chilly all week is spiced brownies. Fudgy, rich, spicy, crunchy. Yes. With piping hot coffee, please.
Just follow Smitten Kitchen's recipe for Best Cocoa Brownies, but add some spices to the cocoa/butter/sugar mixture when you take it off the heat. I added something like:
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp smoked paprika (or anything smoky like chipotle or adobo things)
1/4 tsp ground cardamom
random couple of shakes of crushed cayenne pepper
You can add anything you want, really. Nutmeg (probably 1/4 tsp), ginger, black pepper. I'd also use ground cayenne if you have it in place of crushed to get more of an even heat throughout. I'm out, so the crushed cayenne I used made it so every now and then you end up with a spicy red pepper bit. A bit disconcerting.
My standard with these brownies is to add white chocolate chips in place of the nuts, but this time I crushed up some toasted hazelnuts instead and threw in an extra 1/3 cup semisweet chocolate chips. I am 99% against nuts in baked goods, but this was fine. All in all, these brownies are delicious. Highly recommended.
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