🟫 Brownies

Name: Brownies
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 16
Cuisine: United States
Ingredients: 200 g chocolate, chopped; 150 g butter; 250 g sugar; 3 eggs; 1 tsp vanilla extract; 90 g plain flour; Pinch of salt

Origin: United States

259kcal

per serving · 70 g

370kcal

per 100 g

4 gProtein5 g / 100 g

13 gFat18 g / 100 g

32 gCarbs45 g / 100 g

Brownies are squares of rich, fudgy chocolate cake made with melted chocolate, butter, sugar, eggs, a little flour and vanilla. They bake with a crisp, papery top and a dense, moist middle, somewhere between a cake and a chocolate fudge. Sold in bakeries and coffee shops everywhere, they are served at room temperature or warm with a scoop of ice cream.

Diets

✓

Vegetarianno meat or fish in a typical recipe

✓

No pork

Not veganbecause of: chocolate, butter, egg

Contains glutenbecause of: flour

Contains dairybecause of: chocolate, butter

Not keto45 g carbs per 100 g

Allergens

Contains (in a typical recipe):

⚠ Gluten ⚠ Eggs ⚠ Milk

What it is made of

chocolatebuttersugareggflourvanilla

Recipe

16 servings45 min

Ingredients

200 g chocolate, chopped
150 g butter
250 g sugar
3 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
90 g plain flour
Pinch of salt

Method

Heat the oven to 180 °C and line a 20 × 20 cm tin with baking paper.
Melt the chocolate and butter together over low heat; cool slightly.
Whisk the eggs, sugar and vanilla for 2–3 minutes until thick, then stir in the chocolate.
Fold in the flour and salt until just combined, pour into the tin and smooth the top.
Bake for 22–25 minutes until the top is set and a skewer comes out with moist crumbs. Cool before cutting into 16 squares.

How to make it lighter

A 70 g square is around 260 kcal — cutting smaller squares is the easiest saving.
Reduce the sugar by a quarter; with dark chocolate the brownies stay sweet enough.
Serve with fresh fruit rather than ice cream or chocolate sauce.

History

Brownies come from the United States. A well-known story links them to the Palmer House hotel in Chicago around the 1893 World's Fair, and recipes called 'brownies' were printed in American cookbooks in the early 1900s. They have since become one of the most popular home bakes in the English-speaking world.

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Values are estimates per 100 g for a typical recipe; home and restaurant versions vary. Diets and allergens are worked out from the ingredients of a typical recipe — always check with whoever cooked the dish. Not medical advice. Nutrition data: Me Nutrition dish database v13. How we count →