Kathryn Hepburn's Brownies*

Forever on the quest for the best brownie around, I've made a significant discovery.

These are really really quite good.

They do have flour in them, but I used organic and it's only a quarter cup for the entire recipe which comes down to less than one and a half teaspoons per brownie.

That's not bad for low carb!

I have no idea as to the validity of these being Ms. Hepburn's personal recipe.

INGREDIENTS:

• ½ cup cocoa
• 1 stick butter
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup sugar substitute of your choice. I use half Splenda or granulated Stevia and half xylitol 
• ¼ cup flour (I used organic)
• 1 cup broken-up walnuts or pecans
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• pinch of salt

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
2. Melt butter in saucepan with cocoa and stir until smooth. Remove from heat and allow to cool for a few minutes. Whisk in eggs, one at a time. Stir in vanilla.
3. In a separate bowl, combine sugar, flour, nuts, and salt. Add to the cocoa-butter mixture. Stir until just combined.
4. Pour into a greased 8x8 square pan. Bake 40 minutes. Do not over bake; they should be gooey. Let cool, and cut into bars.

SERVES: 9

NOTES: It is important to not over cook, as this dries them out. Of course if you don't want them moist and gooey, by all means cook longer. I'd start testing at about 30 minutes and go from there.

SOURCE: NYTimes