Basic Brownies

Basic brownies? How boring. But, after the anything-but-boring bacon brownies, I wanted to get a better understanding of some brownie basics, so here they are... These brownies are pretty simple, and of course I messed with the recipe a little, adding more cocoa as well as a dash of cinnamon. I think cinnamon always livens up chocolate, even if you can't really taste it as a stand alone flavor. I took these in to work and received good reviews.

 I think they key here was stirring the cocoa into the melted butter and working from there rather than adding the fats and liquids into the dry ingredients (as the box mixes have you do). They weren't exactly fudgy, but they were dense and very chocolate-y, so I give them two thumbs up. And while I thought they were a little boring to make, they came together in like 5 minutes for those of you less baking inclined. I think if I add some melted chocolate to the mix next time they'll be even better.