All over the world you can’t find someone who doesn’t like chocolate desserts. The traditional chocolate-based goodies are brownies. These are brownies or pieces of cake cut into squares. Depending on the consistency of the dough, these can be cakes, muffins or brownie cookies. About how to make chocolate dessert at home, we will tell in our article.
History of Chocolate Dessert
Back in 1893, no one could have thought that the chocolate dessert prepared by the pastry chef of the Chicago Palmer Hotel would become world famous. According to the original recipe, brownie is a small-sized chocolate brownie with nuts and apricot icing. By the way, they are still cooking at the Palmer Hotel in Chicago.
The first brownie recipe was published in 1896. The composition of this dessert includes such essential ingredients as flour, sugar, eggs, butter, cocoa powder and chocolate. The same recipe adheres to most modern housewives.
Brownie with a cherry: a recipe for cooking at home
Chocolate lovers have no better dessert than brownies. This delicate cake is tasty and traditional. But in combination with cherries, cream cheese, cottage cheese, other fruits or nuts, it becomes simply amazing. Brownie cherry pie is one of the most successful options for making a traditional chocolate dessert.
Cooking a pie occurs in the following sequence:
- The oven is heated to a temperature of 180 degrees.
- Seedless cherries (2 cups) are laid out in a small form (pan), filled with sugar (2 tbsp. Tablespoons) and sent to the oven for 10 minutes.
- After the specified time, get a baking tray with cherries, and reduce the temperature in the oven to 175 degrees.
- Cover a 20 x 20 cm baking sheet with foil and sprinkle with vegetable oil.
- In a water bath or in a microwave, pieces of chocolate (200 g) and butter (135 g) are melted. Then cocoa powder (3 tablespoons) is added, the mass is mixed until a homogeneous consistency.
- Three eggs are beaten with sugar (200 g), vanilla sugar (2 teaspoons) and salt until foam. Gradually, flour (1 cup) is introduced.
- The dough is combined with cherries and laid out in a prepared form.
- Brownie with cherry is baked for 35 minutes or until dry with a toothpick.
- After the cake has cooled, it can be removed from the mold.
Brownies with cherries, the recipe of which is presented above, can be prepared not only from fresh, but also from frozen berries. From this taste of the cake will not get any worse.
Living Brownies (Fudgy brownies)
Many brownie lovers among all kinds of this chocolate treat like Fudgy brownies. It is often called the "living brownie." This is a dessert with liquid filling, which literally flows from the cake when breaking it with a spoon. Often it is prepared in the form of small cupcakes, and sometimes served directly in the baking cups. To make brownie according to this recipe, you need 8 molds with a diameter of 6 cm.
First of all, preheat the oven to 165 degrees and grease the baking tins with butter. Melt chocolate and butter (100 g each) in a steam bath. Beat eggs (2 pcs.) And sugar (75 g) with a mixer and add flour (the same amount). Combine the prepared mass with chocolate and mix. Put the dough into molds by filling ¾ of the volume. Brownies are baked for 12 minutes.
Cream cheese brownie
Introducing a cream cheese brownie recipe. A chocolate dessert with a delicate addition will appeal to all lovers of wet pastries.
This is how brownie is done (step by step):
- The oven is heated to a temperature of 180 degrees.
- A baking dish measuring 20 by 20 cm is lined with foil and greased with oil.
- Cream is whipped from cream cheese (200 g), powdered sugar (60 g), vanilla extract (½ teaspoon). At the end of cooking, an egg is introduced into the creamy mass.
- Chocolate (60 g) and butter (5 tbsp. Tablespoons) are melted in a water bath.
- Sift flour (1 cup) with cocoa powder (½ tbsp.), Baking powder (1 tsp) and a pinch of salt.
- Beat sugar (1 cup) with ½ cup of natural yogurt. Introduce egg whites (2 pcs.) And vanilla extract (on the tip of the knife). Combine the prepared mass with melted chocolate.
- Gradually introduce the flour mixture. Pour a little dough into a separate dish, and distribute most of it in a baking dish. Put cream cheese on top. Pour the rest of the dough onto a creamy layer and form a pattern with a wooden stick.
- Bake brownie for 45 minutes, cool, and then cut into 5 by 5 cm squares.
Banana Curd Brownie
Another option for making brownie, but not with cream cheese, but with cottage cheese. The dessert is also very tasty, especially if you take not dry but moist cottage cheese and beat it with a blender a little.
Melt dark chocolate and butter (100 g each) by any known method. Beat the egg with sugar (4 tbsp. Tablespoons) until foam. Then add flour (2 tbsp. Tablespoons) and a pinch of salt. To stir thoroughly. After that, you can cook the filling. Beat banana, cottage cheese (250 g), sugar (50 g) and 1 egg with a blender until smooth.
Put half the dough in a small baking dish. Spread the filling on top and fill with the rest of the dough. Brownie with cottage cheese is baked for 35 minutes at 180 degrees. Dessert is cut into portioned slices only after complete cooling.
Brownie Chocolate Cake: Recipe
By increasing the amount of ingredients in the brownie recipe, you can get a big and tasty cake. When serving, it can be poured with chocolate icing or divided into several short cakes and greased each of them with a delicious cream.
The dough for the cake is prepared in a water bath in the following sequence:
- The oven warms up to 175 degrees.
- Chocolate (200 g) and butter (150 g) are melted in a water bath.
- When the mass becomes smooth, sugar (½ tbsp) and cocoa powder (1 tbsp. Spoon) are added.
- Three eggs are introduced one at a time, an incomplete glass of flour, a baking powder (1½ teaspoons) and a handful of walnuts chopped into flour.
- The dough is laid out in a round baking dish, covered with parchment.
- Cake is baked for only half an hour. Willingness to check with a toothpick, which should remain a little damp, but not sticky.
- While the cake is cooling, prepare the icing. To do this, melt 100 g of dark chocolate and a couple of tablespoons of butter. Cover the finished cake with the prepared glaze and leave to cool completely overnight.
Brownie Tips
Chocolate dessert has its own cooking features, and you can’t do without recommendations in this case.
- For brownie, you can take bitter or semi-sweet chocolate. But dairy for this pie is not suitable. In extreme cases, it can be used in a 1: 1 ratio with black.
- For the preparation of brownies with cherries, it is necessary to take only ripe berries, without flaws. Then the result will be impressive, even true gourmets.
- Do not bake brownie at temperatures above 180 degrees. Otherwise, it simply dries, but it does not bake.
- Brownies should be cut only after cooling. Otherwise, the dessert may stick to the knife, and the upper crust will crack.
- Brownie can be served with coffee, tea or a scoop of vanilla ice cream.