Amazing Brownies

For some time, I've been trying to find the ultimate brownies recipe. I was looking for something rich, chocolatey, moist and not overly sweet. I've tried out a few recipes, some from this site. Some were good, some were mediocre, but none were quite what I was looking for. Then I found this recipe in my town's local newspaper, in a section called "Mayah's corner of sweets". I figured I might as well try it, and I'm very glad that I did. Description and recipe were translated by yours truly from Hebrew into English. I would suggest using a good quality chocolate, with at least 60% cocoa solids. "Mayah's" orginal description: "The most chocolatey American baked good that I can think of. Excellent with a hot cup of tea or coffee in cold weather. Heart warming. For chocolate lovers only..."

• Ready In: 40 mins
• Yields: 24 squares

Ingredients

• 4  eggs
• 1 1⁄2 tablespoons instant coffee granules
• 1 1⁄2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1  cup sugar
• 250  g bittersweet chocolate
• 250  g butter
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 1  cup flour
• 4 1⁄2 tablespoons  cocoa

Directions

1. Combine eggs, coffee, vanilla extract and sugar. Mix well.
2. Melt chocolate and butter together in microwave. stir every minute or so and continue heating until the mixture is fully melted.
3. Combine egg mixture with chocolate mixture and mix.
4. Combine flour, salt and cocoa.
5. Add egg-chocolate mixture to the flour mixture, mix well.
6. Pour batter into a 30cmX25cm (~ 10X12 in inches) buttered baking pan.
7. Put into oven, preheated to 180C (350F). Bake for 25 minutes.
8. Allow to cool completely before cutting into squares.