Black Forest Brownies with Mocha Ganache

Many novice bakers begin to learn how to bake by making brownies. It is a simple and straightforward recipe to execute. But start a conversation with two pastry chefs on the perfect brownie and things get complicated very quickly. Cakey or dense? Nuts or no nuts? You will never achieve a consensus. Bakers, who all insist their brownies are the best, offer to bake you batch after batch but guard the recipe as if it were a classified document. Some will go so far as to keep the only record of