{"id":360,"date":"2015-10-30T19:07:04","date_gmt":"2015-10-31T02:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/?p=360"},"modified":"2015-10-30T13:48:05","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T20:48:05","slug":"bourbon-brownies-with-sea-salt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/archives\/360","title":{"rendered":"Bourbon Brownies with Sea Salt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I let September completely fly by with not even a hint of a post. I could blame travel (an extended weekend in New York) or work (but it&#8217;s the same old there), but really, I&#8217;ve just been tired, and I haven&#8217;t had the energy to write anything, really.<\/p>\n<p>So here I am, writing about something I made way back in May of 2013, which means I&#8217;m basically two and a half years behind. Maybe I should just give up at some point, and fast forward to the present, but there was so much baking in the past two and a half years! Though I would be hard-pressed to actually remember most of the details.<\/p>\n<p>Way back when I made this recipe, I think I was in the mood for something with bourbon, so I found a recipe for bourbon brownies topped with sea salt. And, as has been the trend lately, I don&#8217;t have the energy to actually write a story about this, so here&#8217;s just the recipe (which I got <a href=\"http:\/\/bakingbites.com\/2013\/05\/bourbon-brownies-with-sea-salt\/\">here<\/a>) and some pictures.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/evillemur\/8706396146\/in\/album-72157633398025797\/\" title=\"IMG_8022\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8409\/8706396146_83ed95c756.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"IMG_8022\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bourbon Brownies with Sea Salt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1\/2 cup (1 stick) butter<br \/>\n2 ounces dark chocolate (60-70% cacao), coarsely chopped<br \/>\n1 cup sugar<br \/>\n2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder<br \/>\n2 large eggs<br \/>\n1\/4 teaspoon salt<br \/>\n2 1\/2 tablespoons bourbon (I used Maker&#8217;s Mark)<br \/>\n1\/2 teaspoon vanilla extract<br \/>\n2\/3 cup all purpose flour<br \/>\n1\/4-1\/2 teaspoon sea salt, for topping<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Preheat the oven to 350F.<\/li>\n<li>Line an 8\u00c3\u20148-inch baking pan with aluminum foil, and grease the foil.<\/li>\n<li>Melt the butter and dark chocolate together, either in the microwave or in a double boiler. Let the mixture cool slightly and pour into a mixing bowl.<\/li>\n<li>Add sugar and cocoa powder to the butter and chocolate mixture, and whisk to combine.<\/li>\n<li>Whisk in the eggs, one at a time.<\/li>\n<li>Add the salt, bourbon, and vanilla extract, and stir to combine.<\/li>\n<li>Add the flour and stir until just combined.<\/li>\n<li>Pour the batter into the foil-lined pan.<\/li>\n<li>Sprinkle the sea salt on top of the batter.<\/li>\n<li>Bake for 30-35 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center only has a few moist crumbs.<\/li>\n<li>Let the brownies cool in the pan.<\/li>\n<li>Lift the foil out of the pan and slice.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/evillemur\/8705274009\/in\/album-72157633398025797\/\" title=\"IMG_8018\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8398\/8705274009_a5f7153901.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"IMG_8018\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The batter, with the rich dark chocolate and bourbon.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/evillemur\/8706395668\/in\/album-72157633398025797\/\" title=\"IMG_8019\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8541\/8706395668_6da2f11998.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"IMG_8019\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In the foil-lined pan, with some sea salt sprinkled on top.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/evillemur\/8706395866\/in\/album-72157633398025797\/\" title=\"IMG_8020\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8406\/8706395866_f586b11618.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"IMG_8020\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>After 30 minutes in the oven, it&#8217;s done. The top cracked a bit.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/evillemur\/8706396006\/in\/album-72157633398025797\/\" title=\"IMG_8021\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8408\/8706396006_660bc0aff2.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"IMG_8021\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I cut it into 16 squares.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/evillemur\/8706396146\/in\/album-72157633398025797\/\" title=\"IMG_8022\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8409\/8706396146_83ed95c756.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"IMG_8022\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The brownies were nice and moist. The bourbon flavor is noticeable, and the sea salt helps bring out that bourbon flavor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I let September completely fly by with not even a hint of a post. I could blame travel (an extended weekend in New York) or work (but it&#8217;s the same old there), but really, I&#8217;ve just been tired, and I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/archives\/360\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[72,59,353],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baking","tag-bourbon","tag-brownies","tag-sea-salt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}