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This easy recipe is a riff off our popular brownies recipe. The base is similar — there’s cocoa powder instead of melted chocolate, butter, sugar, eggs and flour. The original is pretty amazing, this time, though, we add lots of crunchy roasted almonds and sea salt on top. A nut lovers dream!
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Our original Fudgy Brownies recipe from scratch has hundreds of 5-star reviews. It was the inspiration for this recipe. There’s even a quick recipe video where you can watch us making the recipe. Take a look now!
These Double Chocolate Cookies are a must for chocolate lovers. Since you’ve already got the cocoa powder out for brownies, you might as well make a batch of these cookies!…
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