White Chocolate and Macadamia Nut Brownies With Hot Fudge Sauce

From Bon Appetit Restaurant Recipes - Goodfellow's - Minneapolis, MN. Chef Stephan Pyles at Goodfellow's says that this brownie "is the brownie of my childhood, only made with white chocolate instead of dark. It's as decadently chocolate as you can possibly get - hot fudge, pieces of white chocolate in the brownie, the butteriness of the macadamias. It's about as rich a dessert as I would dare do."

• Ready In: 55 mins
• Serves: 24

Ingredients

• 1  cup unbleached flour
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 2  large eggs, room temperature
• 1⁄2 cup granulated sugar
• 7  ounces imported white chocolate, chopped and melted
• 1⁄2 cup unsalted butter, melted
• 1  teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1  cup  chopped toasted  unsalted macadamia nuts
• 5  ounces imported white chocolate, coarsely chopped

• Hot Fudge Sauce

• 3⁄4 cup  whipping cream
• 1⁄4 cup granulated sugar
• 5  ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped
• 2  tablespoons unsalted butter
• 2  tablespoons light corn syrup

Directions

1. Brownie:.
2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
3. Butter and flour a 9x13-inch baking pan.
4. Sift flour with salt into bowl.
5. Using electric mixer beat eggs in large bowl.
6. until frothy.
7. Add sugar 1 tablespoon at a time and beat until pale yellow and slowly dissolving ribbon forms when beaters are lifted. Gently fold in melted chocolate (mixture may lose volume).
8. Add melted butter and vanilla and stir well (mixture may look curdled).
9. Fold in flour.
10. Fold in nuts and chopped chocolate.
11. Pour batter into prepared pan.
12. Bake until toothpick inserted in center comes out not quite clean, about 25 minutes. Do not overbake.
13. Cool in pan on rack. (Can be prepared 1 day ahead. Store at room temperature.)
14. Cut brownies into squares.
15. Transfer to plates.
16. Pour Hot Fudge Sauce over and serve.
17. Hot Fudge Sauce:.
18. Cook cream and sugar in small heavy saucepan over low heat, stirring until sugar dissolves.
19. Add chocolate and stir until chocolate is melted and smooth.
20. Add butter and corn syrup and stir until butter melts. (Can be prepared 1 day ahead. Cover and let stand at room temperature.) Before serving, stir fudge sauce over low heat until it is heated through.
21. Makes about 1 1/2 cups sauce.