“Mom, tell him, he isn’t giving me a piece of the cake!” my younger brother would wine. “At least eat lunch first” mom would say as she was looking at us kids eating one piece after another. When mom would bake a chocolate cake for shabbat, it would usually not survive Friday. “I got only two pieces and everybody got four already” my sister complained. “Leave at least some cake for your father” mom would say as she took what was left of the cake.Years later, in one of my parents’ visits at my home, my older son, who then was 7 years old, served them cake and declared “This is the cake I love the most.” “Looks very good” mom said “a chocolate cake. Do you know that your father also loved chocolate cakes?” “It’s not chocolate cake my son answered” “it’s brownies”. “Brownies? What is it?” mom asked “it's a special chocolate cake” my son answered, them I added “Taste it, I think you’d like it”. Mom took a bite, and another one “very tasty, what did you call it?” “Brownies” we both answered.
Ingredients
12 TBS butter
6 oz unsweetened dark chocolate
1 cup flour
¼ cup cocoa powder
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
4 eggs
1 cup walnuts
Heat oven to 350 f. Boil water in a bain-marie pot (or use regular pot and place a pyrex bowl inside when water is boiling). Add butter and chocolate and cook while stirring until all melts. Let cool.
Place in a deep bowl flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt and mix well.
Add sugar to the chocolate bowl and mix. And eggs, one at a time and mix well after each one. Add vanilla extract and mix. Add dry ingredients to the chocolate bowl and mix lightly until combined. Add walnuts stir in.
Place baking paper in a 9x13 baking pan and grease it. Pour the mix in and smooth top with spatula. Bake for about 20 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out with moist crumbs. Remove from pan with baking paper and let cool completely before slicing.
