What’s your favorite? Do you like your brownies to taste like rich, moist chocolate cake… or do you prefer your brownies more like dense fudge? Do you like to sink your teeth into what is almost pure, creamy chocolate… or do you like your brownies to be crumbly and flakey? Perhaps you prefer your brownies in-between, as many people do.

Today, two out of every three people prefer the more fudge-like variety to the cake-style brownie. But, it was not always like this… originally, the first brownies were always cake-style, and it is only in the last 25 years that fudge-like brownies overtook cake-style in popularity and taste preference among Americans.

When the first brownie was "invented" over 100 years ago by Fanny Farmer, it was definitely cake-like. Gradually over the years more and more chocolate has been added and brownies became richer and much more dense.

The second recipe, appearing in 1907, was in Lowney’s Cook Book, written by Maria Willet Howard and published by the Walter M. Lowney Company of Boston. Ms. Howard, a protégé of Ms. Farmer, added an extra egg and an extra square of chocolate to Fanny Farmer’s recipe, creating a richer, more chocolatey brownie. Ever since, more and more chocolate has been added to get the fudgier brownies many of us prefer today.

To solve the problem of being forced to choose between the two popular styles of brownies, one enterprising company, Ruth’s Brownie Kitchen, in the Hudson Valley of New York State, bakes both styles –extra fudgy and cake-style-- so the customer can choose their favorite. Each style of their gourmet brownies comes in 12 different flavors including walnut, caramel swirl, raspberry and many others.

Ruth’s Brownie Kitchen bakes all of its brownies from the finest farm-fresh, natural ingredients. It only uses King Arthur flours and ultra-premium Valrhona chocolates and cocoa in its products: brownies, cookies and biscotti.

Ruth’s brownies and other goodies make the perfect gift or special treat for yourself, loved ones, friends and business associates. You can buy brownies {http://www.ruths-brownies.com} by visiting Ruth’s Brownie Kitchen website at www.ruths-brownies.com. All products are made to order and shipped fresh the very same day as baked within hours of being removed from the oven.