Intense Chocolate Brownies

I’ve always been perplexed by the age-old brownie question: should they be cakey or fudgy? The thing is, if I want a piece of chocolate cake, I pull out the mixer and the cake flour and make a chocolate cake. And if fudge is what I have a hankering for, I grab the candy thermometer and make fudge! What I want when I’m craving a brownie lies somewhere in between: not as light and fluffy as a cake, not as dense and candylike as fudge, but something moist and deep and dark and rich. These deca