For those of you who live in Greater Boston, you may be familiar with Rosie's Bakery. They have the best brownies in the world. I own Rosie's cookbook and used to make them all the time before my son's diagnosis.
I had been dreading trying this recipe out with my new gluten free techniques. I was really afraid of producing a dud. I LOVE the original so much that I just figured I'd sneak out and eat them when I needed them. *I* can have gluten, I just don't ever cook with at at home for fear of cross contaminating something my son might eat/put in his mouth. He's four, and he still puts stuff in his mouth. What are you going to do?
I finally made them with very few changes and they taste almost exactly like the ones I made before from the Rosie's cookbook. I think the success of this recipe is largely due to the mixing technique. You can use cheap Bakers chocolate, in fact she recommends it in the book.
Rosie's Award Winning Brownies -- GLUTEN FREE!
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 1/2 sticks butter cut into 1 TBSP pieces
3 1/2 ounces unsweetened bakers chocolate
3 eggs @ room temperature
2 tsp vanilla
1 tsp xanthan gum
3/4 cup plus 2 tbsp Annalise Robert's Food Philosopher's gluten free flour mix
1/4 tsp salt
preheat oven to 350 and line a 9x9 baking pan with parchment paper and spray with canola oil
Melt the chocolate and butter over a low double boiler. Allow to cool for at least 5 minutes.
Pour chocolate butter mix over sugar in large bowl of electric mixer and mix on medium until well blended.
Add the vanilla and mix
Add the eggs one at a time, mixing between each one until well blended About 10-20 seconds each
Put in the "flour" salt and xanthan gum
Mix on low and finish mixing by hand
Put in a 9x9 baking dish
Bake for 25-30 minutes until a soft crust forms over the top. They taste best completely cooled, especially on the 2nd day.