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Chocolate Brownies

Table of Contents

  • 1. Get those ingredients together
  • 2. Make the chocolate sauce
  • 3. Whisk the sugar and eggs
  • 4. Fold in the chocolate sauce flour and cocoa powder
  • 5. Pour into a baking tray
  • 6. Is the chocolate brownie cooked?
  • 7. Serve the wonderful chocolate brownie
  • 8. Printable recipe

Chocolate brownies! There you go. The statement is made. Do I need to say more?

Well, I suppose I do otherwise it would be pretty poor post right? OK, thinking cap on…

Chocolate brownies. Let’s be honest here, chocolate brownies are not the best dish if you’re on a diet, but how good are they!? Just the best ever! Have a look at these ones… Yum Yum!!

chocolate brownies

Chocolate brownies. Need I say more…

Now my good friend’s daughter, Daisy, told me the other day that when she tries to make brownies they end up flat and hard and always sink. I told her I’d make some for you guys that she could try and see what she thought. So, yesterday, I took the ones in the photograph above over to Daisy for her to try. “Wow!” she gasped as munched on these light but oh so chocolatey beauties. “This is exactly what I’ve been trying to make” Daisy exclaimed…

So for all you Foodie Fans, and for my mate Daisy, this is how you do it…


1. Get those ingredients together

You should know me by now. It’s critical to get all the ingredients together before you start any cooking, in this case, baking. Just 6 ingredients for these bad boys, if you put all the chocolate together. I’ve laid them all out below:

chocolate brownie ingredients

The chocolate brownie ingredients all laid out ready

As always the printable recipe with the exact measurements is below. I do want to make one observation though. Now, I haven’t made chocolate brownies for a while but whenever I do I lay at the ingredients and almost stop. Why? Haha! Well, look!! 3 types of chocolate, almost a whole pack of butter. And look at that sugar!!!

If it wasn’t for the dream of eating those wonderful light chocolate drops from heaven the good side of my conscience would win ????. Oh well, sorry Sainty. I’m sticking with the dark side, or dark chocolate today…????



2. Make the chocolate sauce

Firstly, cut the butter into small cubes and place in a glass mixing bowl. Next, break the dark chocolate into small pieces and add this to the bowl.

Secondly, you will need to make a bain-marie. This is a French phrase but is a simple method for melting a product that could burn if subjected to direct heat. Chocolate is in this category.

To make the bain-marie just get a saucepan smaller than the mixing bowl. Next, pour water into the pan such that the mixing bowl can sit in the top of the pan but not touch the water.

bain marie

Use a bain marie to make the chocolate sauce

Now put the saucepan and mixing bowl on a hob at a low heat and as the water heats up so does the bowl. This then melts the chocolate and butter mix.

melting chocolate over a bain marie

Melt the butter and chocolate and slowly

Keep stirring until everything has melted and you have a smooth and creamy chocolate sauce.

Dark chocolate sauce

Dark chocolate sauce



3. Whisk the sugar and eggs

Now, Daisy, I hope you are listening. This is the key step to make your brownie light…

Take another glass mixing bowl and add the eggs. Give them a quick whisk so the yolks and whites have mixed together. Next, add the sugar and whisk away…

Now, this is where I have to apologise to you all. When you whisk the eggs and sugar together you should use an electric whisk and blitz the mixture for 6 or more minutes, depending on the strength of your mixer. The end product should be a mixture where, when you remove the whisk from the mixture, the residual mix dripping from the whisk heads takes a second or so to sink back into the rest of the mixture.

The reason for may need to apologise is that when I turned my electric whisk on it didn’t work. This resulted in me having to spend around 15 minutes hand whisking the eggs and sugar (oh my wrist!!) and then forgetting to take any photographs of the final mix. Doh!

So sorry for this. I will stand in a corner for 30 minutes or do lines or whatever punishment you deem right for such a heinous crime. Next time I make these wonderful chocolate brownies though I will add a photograph for sure.



4. Fold in the chocolate sauce flour and cocoa powder

So now you have alight and aerated egg and sugar mix. Daisy, now a bit of science for you…

When you beat the eggs you add air to the mixture. This is why it doubles in size. More importantly, this air is what makes the chocolate brownie light. When in the oven, the air bubbles in the mix heat up and expand. This makes the whole brownie (or sponge really) lift up. Then, when the brownie cooks, the whole mixture dries out and hardens to keep the shape of the air bubbles. This is what makes it light.

What is really important, therefore, is not to knock the air out of the egg and sugar mixture when you add the chocolate and flour.

Firstly, slowly pour the chocolate sauce into the egg and sugar mix and take a wooden or plastic spatula and slowly mix the chocolate sauce in using a figure of 8 movement. Once mixed it should be a mottled brown and white colour. Again, apologies for no photographs.

Finally, sieve the flour and cocoa powder into the mix (so there are no lumps) and use the same figure of 8 motion to mix all together. Make sure you scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl.

The end mix will look like this:

chocolate brownie mix

Finally! A photograph!!



5. Pour into a baking tray

Firstly, turn the oven on to 180C / 160C Fan to get warmed up. Next, take a 20cm x 20cm or equivalent baking tray and cover the bottom with baking paper. Now, slowly spoon the mix into the tray and spread evenly. Again, do this slowly so you don’t knock any air out of the mixture.

chocolate brownie mix

Spread the chocolate brownie mix evenly over the tray

Now place in the preheated oven on a middle shelf and bake for 25 minutes.



6. Is the chocolate brownie cooked?

Daisy, are you listening? ???? This is the other crucial steps and will stop your brownie sinking…

After 25 minutes open the oven and pull the oven try out. Give the baking tray a little shake. If the chocolate brownie is still wobbly in the middle then pop it back the oven for another 5 minutes then repeat this the shaking exercise. Keep doing it until there is no wobble and the whole chocolate brownie is firm.

When firm, just remove from the oven and set aside in the tin to cool.



7. Serve the wonderful chocolate brownie

Once cooled down to room temperature tip the brownie out onto a chopping board and remove the baking paper.

baked chocolate brownie

The final baked chocolate brownie

Now flip the brownie back over and cut into whatever size you want. Try not to eat the whole thing at once!!

cut chocolate brownie

Cut into half then quarter and so on…

 

chocolate brownies

Chocolate brownies. Need I say more…

And there you have it! A wonderfully soft and light chocolate brownie.

 



OK, my friends. That’s it for this time. I hope you enjoy cooking this recipe and, as always, if you have any comments or questions just use the comments section below.

Daisy…I’ll be around tomorrow to try yours…????

Thanks for reading and until next time…Steve

 



 

8. Printable recipe

chocolate brownies
Print
Chocolate Brownies
Prep Time
30 mins
Cook Time
25 mins
Total Time
55 mins
 

Let's be honest here, not the best dish if you're on a diet but how good are chocolate brownies!? Just the best ever! Have a look at these ones... Yum Yum!!

Course: Cakes, Dessert, Pudding
Cuisine: American
Keyword: Brownie, Chocolate, Easy, Vegetarian
Servings: 16 brownies
Ingredients
  • 200 grams high quality dark chocolate 70% or more
  • 55 grams milk chocolate
  • 55 grams white chocolate
  • 200 grams unsalted butter
  • 100 grams plain flour
  • 45 grams cocoa powder
  • 3 large eggs
  • 275 grams caster sugar
Instructions
  1. Cut the butter into cubes and place in a glass mixing bowl. Break the dark chocolate in to the bowl. Now take a saucepan and make a ban maire.

    bain marie
  2. Heat the bain marie slowly until the chocolate and butter start to melt. Keep stirring.

    melting chocolate over a bain marie
  3. Once fully melted the chocolate sauce should look like this. Now leave in the side to cool to room temperature.

    Dark chocolate sauce
  4. Now take the eggs and break them in to a second glass mixing bowl and whisk until the yolks and whites have mixed. Next add the sugar.

  5. With an electric whisk mix the eggs and sugar vigorously. This will take 6 or more minutes. Check correct consistency by lifting the whisk heads out of the mixture. If the mix that drips from the whisk heads takes a second or so to sink into the mix in the mixture it is ready.   

  6. Next, pour the room temperature chocolate sauce slowly into the egg and sugar mix. Now take a wooden or plastic spatula and stir in a figure of 8 motion until the whole mix is a mottled white and brown colour.

  7. Now sieve the flour and cocoa powder into the mix and mix again gently using a figure of 8 motion. The final mix should look like this.

    chocolate brownie mix
  8. Now cover a 20cm x 20cm or equivalent baking tray with baking paper and spoon the mixture into the tray. Spread it evenly to cover the tray.

    chocolate brownie mix
  9. Place the tray in the centre of a pre-heated oven at 180C / 160C Fan and bake for 25 minutes. After this time check if ready by lightly shaking the tin. If the brownie wobbles in the middle bake for another 5 minutes and check again until the wobbling stops.

  10. Once firm remove from the oven and leave to cool. Then remove from the tin and remove the baking paper.

    baked chocolate brownie
  11. Now cut into whatever sizes you want to eat. But don't eat it all in one sitting!! ????

    cut chocolate brownie
  12. A wonderful light and chocolatey brownie...

    chocolate brownies



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About Steve Deacon

Hi, I'm Steve, a former member of the dreaded corporate world who's decided to give it all up and do something I wanted to do for a change! My wife, Jen (and yes, I am well and truly punching above my weight) and I live in a sleepy little town in the middle of the UK and our favourite things are...food and wine!!

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