Article: West Point Market's Killer Brownies turn 25.

Byline: Jane Snow

May 3--"I don't know how much of the story I should tell you," Russ Vernon said, blue eyes X-raying me across the cafe table. I tried to look harmless. "All of it," I whispered. Vernon's son, Rick, had already agreed to give me West Point Market's recipe for its legendary Killer Brownies, the caramel-drenched chocolate bombs that helped turn a Midwestern gourmet-foods store into a Mecca for food lovers from coast to coast. The brownies are rich enough to curl your toes, but with such a serious jolt of chocolate that they escape being cloying. They're sin and redemption in a single bite. Like their many imitators, Killer Brownies feature ...

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