Hi guys welcome back to our kitchen at Little Spoon Farm. Today we are making sour dough brownies so let's get started. You'll want to line a nine by nine inch baking dish with some parchment paper and preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Melt the butter on your stove top in a small sauce pan and add the vanilla extract and the chocolate chips. Stir this pretty frequently until the chocolate chips have melted and the mixture is smooth over low heat. Then you can add the cocoa powder. The heat is going to help bloom the cocoa powder and bring out more chocolate flavor. So once that's combined and smooth go ahead set that aside and let it cool while we move on to the next step. In a large bowl you'll want to beat the eggs and the sugars with an electric mixer on a medium to a medium high speed for about seven to nine minutes until it's a light fluffy color and it's nice incorporated. Then you're going to add the sourdough starter, the cold chocolate mixture and again use that electric mixer to incorporate that into the batter. Now we're going to add the flour in the salt but we're going to do that using a spatula because you don't want to over mix the batter. So just gently fold that in and this batter is going to be very very thick. Once this is all nice and evenly incorporated even though you still may see little bits of white flour that's not a big deal. Go ahead and pour it into the baking dish. This batter is extremely thick. Once you have it in the baking dish just use your spatula to even the top out and then you're going to want to bake this for 35 to 40 minutes. You'll know when it's done when the edges are set but the middle still appears to be somewhat under baked. They will continue to bake while they cool in the pan so let them cool completely before you take them out to cut into squares and I promise you you are going to love these brownies and it's a great way to use your sourdough discard.