Original recipe:

• https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2018/02/bravetart-glossy-fudge-brownies.html

High-Level Overview: (HLO, i.e. major components overview)

1. Brown butter
2. Mix eggs for 8 minutes
3. Bake 30 minutes

Special tools & ingredients:

• SideSwipe blade for KitchenAid
• Spatula-spoon
• Danish dough whisk
• Pernigotti cocoa powder
• Aluminum pan

Ingredients:

• 3 sticks of butter
• 170g chopped chocolate bar (70% to 90%)
• 450g white sugar
• 55g light brown sugar
• 1 & 3/4 teaspoons Kosher salt
• 6 cold eggs
• 1 tablespoon vanilla
• 125g AP flour
• 4oz Pernigotti cocoa powder

Directions:

1. Preheat 350F
2. Line 2" 9x13 special pan with foil & spray with Pam
3. Brown butter, chop chocolate, turn off heat, stir in chopped chocolate
4. Combine white sugar, brown sugar, salt, eggs, vanilla in mixing bowl and whip on medium-high for 8 minutes
5. Mix flour & cocoa powder
6. Put KitcehenAid on low and pour in the chocolate-butter mix. Then add cocoa-flour until combined.
7. Pour into greased foil-lined pan. Bake 30 minutes to 205F (measure angled)
8. Allow brownies to cool. Lift out of pan & cut. Can be frozen.

Freezing procedure:

1. Cut into squares
2. Put a Silpat (well, I have a knockoff, haha - another budget-friendly Amazon item) on a baking sheet and put the brownies on top
3. Flash-freeze for a few hours
4. Remove from freezer (they pop off the Silpat super easily!) and vacuum-seal in small batches using a FoodSaver or something similar (I have one from Monoprice). They will be nice & hard so they won't squish when you vac-seal them. After sealing, put them back in the freezer for storage ASAP.
5. When you have a brownie craving, simply pull out a pack, cut it open with scissors & remove from the packaging, and reheat. I have a small toaster oven; I do 390F for 6 minutes right out of the freezer. Comes out like I just baked them, but with none of the work!

Yeah it's amazing. I got a 6qt KitchenAid mixer on sale on Black Friday a few years ago & hated the accessories it came with. The dough hook & flat beater were awful, they oxidized or something & made my hands & batter gray every time I used them because it was like the metal was rubbing off (iirc they weren't supposed to go in the dishwasher or something & needed to be scrubbed down with powder, but screw that, I need convenience! haha. edit: found a post explaining it: "Hi, the dough hooks and other beaters are made from cast aluminium; the problem with aluminium is that dishwasher detergents, which are caustic (alkali), react with the aluminium to form the grey oxide that rubs off the surface - once you have dishwashed them, they are irretreivable - so as has been said, toss it out!"). And the wire whisk got bent out of shape within a week. I ended up replacing all of them over the years:

1. White-coated dough hook: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000H3YTWK/
2. SideSwipe beater: (SO GOOD!! https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00654X73W/
3. 11-wire whip: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000PJ6XGQ/

I feel like KitchenAid has really cheaped out on their newer models. This was the first stand mixer I ever owned personally & other than the fact that it still works, it's been all kinds of weird:

1. It wobbles a lot. I thought that by investing in the larger 6qt, it'd be a more steady, heavy model, especially with all the metal, but nope! Feels like a cheap toy built in China when it's running.
2. The top plastic protector/chute thingy broke really quickly. I need to get another one because sometimes it flings ingredients out & that would catch it, plus it'd be convenient to have the chute part again for loading ingredients.
3. I made a mistake by getting the white color (it was the cheapest color on sale lol). It stains like nobody's business and just looks dirty. I've tried so many cleaning solutions (even stuff with bleach!) and it just looks bad. I thought about painting it or maybe getting some stickers, but eh, it's just a mixer lol.
4. It uses this awful clip system to hold the bowl in place; I can't believe how cheap of a solution they put into a mixer that retails for over three hundred dollars. The mixing bowl has a left & a right bracket to hold it on the lift, and then a kind button-clip system to snap the back in. That broke SUPEr fast. KitchenAid provided a replacement for free, but it took three separate orders to actually get it delivered, so my mixer was down for nearly 4 months. Also, like an idiot, I still tried to use it by holding the bowl down manually, and ended up breaking my first SideSwipe...the bowl was at just enough of an angle that it caused too much pressure from the spinning that it shattered that attachment (but the SideSwipe was good enough of a tool that I ordered another one as soon as my bowl clip actually arrived!).

On the flip side, the motor hasn't failed me yet, so it's still operational, and now that I have a clip in there, the bowl stays in place properly, and with the new attachments (white-coated dough hook, SideSwipe, and 11-wire whip), it's just a super, super useful tool in my kitchen. The SideSwipe is definitely my #1 attachment because it pushes the batter down & scrapes the sides and does a really good job on the bottom of the bowl too. It can be a bit of a bear to clean, but I replaced my kitchen faucet with a switchable pull-out sprayer nozzle, so I just get the water nice & hot and spray it clean immediately after using it so that nothing cakes on (otherwise you're gonna have to soak it & scrub all of the ridges, which is a huge pain!). But it's silicone or whatever, so it just hoses off right after using it really quickly, so it's clean in under a minute!

Anyway, I definitely recommend one if you have a KitchenAid stand mixer. Wish I had known about them sooner as well! btw, if you like the idea of the SideSwipe, you should check this puppy out:

https://www.amazon.com/Creuset-America-Revolution-Bi-Material-Cerise/dp/B00N9SDI40/

Most expensive spoon I've ever bought, and you can pry it from my cold, dead hands lol. Same idea as a wooden spoon, except the black part is made out of glass-filled nylon & the wipe is silicone, like a spatula. It's kind of like a high-quality spork for the cooking world - you can stir & spoon, but also scrape with it. It's absolutely incredible things like pouring say brownie batter from the bowl into the pan, because the spoon part lets you quickly get the bulk of the batter out & then the tip lets you cleanly spatula-off the rest of it, all in one tool! This is one of the few tools that I use every single day. Also great for doing anything on the stovetop as well. Good tools make such a difference in working in the kitchen & in incentivizing me to cook at home instead of just grabbing take-out, haha.