The Exceptional Brownie’s Peanutty Swirl: a yummy, chocolate-peanut butter brownie. Photo by Melody Lan.

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February 2007

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The Exceptional Brownie

An Award-Winning Brownie

CAPSULE REPORT: Made from the finest ingredients and certified kosher, these classic-style American brownies are thankfully made in mini-snacking size as well as full-dessert size, enabling brownie-lovers to enjoy little nibbles more often. Shrink-wrapped for freshness and easy transport, they make great gifts for young and old alike.

“It’s so hard to find a good mail-order brownie,” one of our editors, a chocolate expert, lamented a few months ago. Some might say, it’s hard to find a good brownie, period. After Claire Sauerhoff’s classic Double Chocolate brownie won top honors in a national competition to find the best brownie recipe held by COPIA*, her friends convinced her to give up her job as a New York marketing executive and bake her brownies full-time.

*The American Center for Food, Wine and The Arts, founded by Julia Child and Robert Mondavi, among others.

The Exceptional Brownie utilizes the very best ingredients—Guittard chocolate, Grade A sweet butter, real vanilla and crunchy nuts—in a “less is more” recipe. The profile is quite elegant: Even the peanut butter brownie doesn’t overwhelm with an excess of peanut butteriness, but swirls in the peanut butter as a grace note. Given how so many recipes are excessive in their butteriness, sugariness, chocolatiness, etc., these brownies are “exceptional”  in their restraint. The one “brown sheep” of the family is Raspberry Swirl, which gives raspberry-lovers their berry’s worth of fruitiness.

The flavors include: Butterscotch Blondie Blondie Choc-Chip Double Chocolate Espresso Choco-Chip Peanutty Swirl Raspberry Swirl Walnut Double Chocolate White Choco-Chunk The brownies are made in two sizes: The Maxi, 3" square and 3 to 3.25 ounces, is dessert-size. The Mini, 2" square and 2 to 2.5* ounces, is a good snack size. All flavors are made in both sizes.

Blondie Choc-Chip. Photo by Melody Lan.

White Choco-Chunk, a fudgy brownie with chunks of white chocolate. Photo by Melody Lan.

Unlike many lines of brownies that are too sweet for sophisticated adults, the Sophisticated Brownie appeals to the sophisticated palate—but kids will love them, too. It’s easy to take care of birthday, holiday and other gift occasions with the click of a mouse. And, with the welcome Mini size, it’s easy to: Minimize one’s intake, by enjoying a smaller brownie more often Maximize one’s enjoyment, by enjoying a larger variety of flavors, mini-sized. You can have your cake, and eat it too, and share it with friends.

THE EXCEPTIONAL BROWNIE Butterscotch Blondie, Blondie Choc-Chip, Double Chocolate, Espresso Choco-Chip, Peanutty Swirl, Raspberry Swirl, Walnut Double Chocolate, White Choco-Chunk Certified kosher (dairy) by KOF-K Mini Brownies Half Dozen, $12.00 Dozen, $26.00 Two Dozen, $48.00 Maxi Brownies Half Dozen, $16.00 Dozen, $34.00 Other sizes and packaging options available, including gift assortments, holiday packaging, party favors and private label packaging. See website for more information. Purchase online at ExceptionalBrownie.com

Below: The Maxi at left, the Mini at right.

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