Brownies Part Deux

Last night I made the "Supernatural Brownies" from the same article I tested yesterday. The recipe recommended making these a day ahead for best results.
These could not be more different from the gooey brownies from the day before. This is the kind of brownie I really like--halfway between a cookie and a cake. I used Scharffen Berger bittersweet chocolate. I did not use "artisinal" sugar (puh-leeze), but just Domino dark brown sugar. If someone else wants to do a side-by-side comparison of these brownies made with two sugars, I'd be interested in the results, but I can't be bothered.

The edges came out too well done, and I trimmed them off before presenting this to the office testers, but they are edible (if a little too dry).

Brownies on ice

This morning, I take a departure from my weekend testing to report on a Wednesday food section recipe. This morning the Times published a
dissertation on chocolate

and this companion piece by Julia Moskin with three recipes.

Like Moskin, I don't swoon over "death by chocolate" desserts. I'd rather have rice pudding, a cream puff from Beard Papa's or a sfogliatelle.* But I'm game to try these. Since one of the recipes takes only 20 minutes to bake, I decided to try it on the spur of the moment.

The recipe calls for placing the baked brownies in an ice bath to cool, producing a "slump" in the middle and a fudgy texture. You can see from the picture that the center did indeed slump. I'm not really a fan of a fudgy texture, but the people in my office are, and I'll bring it for them to try. Tomorrow, I intend to try the "Supernatural" brownie recipe, which actually sounds better to me. The article is about how you should be using higher-end chocolate for baking, and I used Scharffen Berger.

Now that I have tasted these, I think they are a bit too gooey. They taste good, though. I liked the part near the edges, which isn't as gooey. Also, the brownies stuck to the foil. I wonder if the foil shouldn't have been buttered.
*Exception: I do like Choco Leibniz cookies in dark chocolate.