If you prefer a more milk chocolate taste, I recommend using Hershey’s naturally sweetened cocoa and opting for a milk chocolate bar for the brownie batter. However, this recipe will work with any of these cocoa powders. I don’t always bake with a Dutch-process cocoa powder, but it has the smoothest, richest flavor and has highest level of cocoa butter on the market. Hands down, the winner was Rodelle cocoa powder. Hershey’s Special dark– a blend of Dutch process and natural cocoa powder.I tested this recipe with three different cocoa powders: Semi-sweet chocolate chips are mixed into the brownie batter.Baking powder- most recipes don’t have an leavening agent, but I found this was a real game-changer in achieving the type of texture you’ll find in a boxed brownie mix while maintaining the fudgy centers.Rodelle cocoa powder- after all my recipe testing, this was a clear favorite.Eggs & egg yolks- extra egg yolk add richness.Ghirardelli, Lindt and Guittard are all great options. 4-ounce dark chocolate bar: Use a high-quality chocolate bar, at least 60% cocoa or higher.At this stage, the batter looks like a light and fluffy vanilla cake batter. Then the eggs and egg yolks are added and beaten for at least two minutes. First, the butter and sugar are well-creamed together. There is a specific but easy way to prepare this recipe to achieve this effect. It incorporates air into the batter and it actually forms a meringue layer on top of the brownies which creates the flakey and crackly layer on top. To replace the 4-ounce chocolate bar in the recipe, use a heaping ½ cup of chocolate chips.Īfter lots of research and recipe testing, a flakey and crackly topped brownie is the result of beating the eggs for an extended period of time. However, you can make this recipe with chocolate chips if you don’t have a baking bar. As a result, they don’t melt as smoothly and they’re oilier. I don’t like to use chocolate chips for the brownie batter because they generally have a wax-like coating. Brands like Ghirardelli, Lindt and Guittard are the most readily available in the baking aisle. I recommend buying a chocolate bar that is at least 60% cocoa or higher. Use Dark Chocolate for the Batterįor the batter, I love using dark chocolate for its deep and rich flavor, but it’s really important that you buy high-quality ingredients. This recipe has both melted chocolate in the batter and additional chocolate chips mixed in. Recipes that only use cocoa powder tended to be drier and a cakey texture. In all the testing I did, I determine that melted chocolate is the key to a fudgy brownie. Much like a chocolate chip cookie, opinions about brownies are fierce and widely debatable. Are you team fudgy or cakey? Edges or middle? Chocolate chips or no chocolate chips? But once they’ve had time to set and cool, the texture is spot on. Out of the oven, they’re melty, gooey, lick-your-fingers good. I’m a dark chocolate girl myself, but one of the best things about this recipe is you can make adjustments to suit your taste. Plus I’ve discovered the secret to achieving the shiny flakey layer on top that you often get with a brownie mix. There’s melted chocolate in the batter, cocoa powder, and chocolate chips on top. I loooove this recipe, and I will probably never make a boxed brownie mix again. This recipe has triple the chocolate. Somewhere around recipe test #15 I started to lose count of how many batches we made to get here. I’ve poured my heart and soul into perfecting this recipe. You guys, oh my gosh, I’ve been on a mission to make the perfect, fudgy, from-scratch brownie recipe.
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