Robert's Brownies My Way Recipe

I resist the term fudgy — it is inadequate for these exceptional brownies. They are densely creamy and intensely bittersweet beneath a paper-thin nuance of crust on top. The late Robert Steinberg (cofounder of Scharffen Berger Chocolate) created the recipe for the company’s first chocolate, Scharffen Berger Bittersweet 70% Chocolate. I published the recipe in Alice Medrich’s Cookies and Brownies in 1997, and it appeared again in The Essence of Chocolate by John Scharffenberger and Robert Steinberg in 2006. It remains a go-to modern recipe for very chocolaty brownies that are not excessively sweet.