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Ganache Brownies

Ingredients
  

  • ½ cup 1 stick salted butter
  • 8 ounces coarsely chopped semi-sweet chocolate
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 3 large eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • ¾ cup all-purpose flour
  • ¼ teaspoon salt

Ganache

  • 8 ounces semisweet chocolate
  • 1 cup heavy cream

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line 11 x 7 inch baking pan with nonstick foil.
  • Melt butter and chocolate in a microwave safe bowl and let cool a few minutes.
  • Stir the sugar into the butter/chocolate mix.
  • Add eggs one at a time.
  • Add vanilla.
  • Stir in flour and salt.
  • Spread batter evenly into the pan and bake 27-35 minutes.
  • Let cool completely.

Ganache

  • Heat cream just to a boil.
  • Place chocolate in a heat-safe bowl.
  • Pour hot cream over chocolate and cover with a paper towel.
  • Let sit 3 mins.
  • Whisk until smooth. Let sit a few mins to thicken.
  • Pour over brownies.
  • Option #2-let ganache cool 45 mins-whip it in a mixer until fluffy and spread over brownies!