Nobody can be in a bad mood while baking brownies.  Which is why when I am feeling a bit out of sorts, I like to bake some.  Which is exactly what I did a few days back after work, because I needed a nice little pick me up.Plus they just sounded good.I have been in a bit of a chocolate mood lately.  Just being in the kitchen with that heavenly aroma radiating from the oven makes me happy.

Raw Guru recently sent me a big container of their raw cacao powder and coconut sugar, so it was the perfect thing to make!  Some chocolate inspiration to get me going.I recently upgraded my brownie game, melting dark chocolate into the batter along with the other wet ingredients because it gives the brownies that fudgy texture that I love.  Get out of here with those cakey dry ones, I am not a fan of those at all.No, my brownies have to be rich, decadent and fudgy!  Plus I love those middle pieces with the most fudge above all else! These are simple to make, once you take care of melting the chocolate and adding it to them, the rest just gets all mixed together.  I thought about making these plain classic brownies, but I decided that a hint of coffee would be heavenly in them, so I added that in as well, and it made the chocolate even more intense.

Funny thing is, I didn't drink coffee for years, but just last year I fell back in love with i

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