Brownie is ... Brownie: recipes, cooking features and recommendations

Throughout the world, there is no one who does not like chocolate desserts. Traditional delicacies based on chocolate are Brownies. These are brownies or pieces of pie cut into squares. Depending on the consistency of the dough, it can be cakes, brownies or brownies. About how you can make a chocolate dessert at home, we will tell in our article.

History of chocolate dessert

In the distant 1893, no one could have imagined that the chocolate dessert, prepared by the confectioner of the Chicago hotel Palmer, would become famous throughout the world. According to the original recipe, brownie is a small chocolate cake with nuts and apricot icing. By the way, at Palmer Hotel in Chicago they are still being cooked.

The first recipe for Brownie was published in 1896. This dessert includes such compulsory ingredients as flour, sugar, eggs, butter, cocoa powder and chocolate. The same formula is adopted by most modern housewives.

Brownie with cherries: a recipe for cooking at home

For chocolate lovers, there is no better dessert than brownies. This delicious pie is delicious and traditional. But in combination with cherry, cream cheese, cottage cheese, other fruits or nuts, it becomes simply amazing. Cherry Brownie Pie is one of the most successful options for making traditional chocolate dessert.

The cake is made in the following sequence:

1. The oven heats up to a temperature of 180 degrees.
2. Cherries without pits (2 cups) are laid out in a small form (pan), filled with sugar (2 tablespoons) and sent to the oven for 10 minutes.
3. After the specified time, the baking tray with cherries is reachable, and the temperature in the oven is reduced to 175 degrees.
4. Baking tray size 20 to 20 cm to cover with foil and sprinkle with vegetable oil.
5. On a water bath or in a microwave, pieces of chocolate (200 g) and butter (135 g) are melted. Then cocoa powder (3 items of a spoon) is added, the mass is mixed to a homogeneous consistency.
6. Three eggs are beaten with sugar (200 g), vanilla sugar (2 tsp) and salt until foamy. Gradually introduce flour (1 cup).
7. The dough is combined with a cherry and laid out in a prepared form.
8. Brownie with a cherry bake for 35 minutes or until a dry toothpick.
9. After the pie is cooled, it can be removed from the mold.

Brownie with a cherry, the recipe of which is presented above, can be prepared not only from fresh, but also from frozen berries. From this, the taste of the pie will not get any worse.

"Live" brownies (Fudgy brownies)

Many brownies fans like Fudgy brownies among all kinds of this chocolate delicacy. It is often called the "live Brownie". It is a dessert with a liquid filling, which literally flows out of the cake when it is broken with a spoon. Often it is prepared in the form of small cupcakes, and sometimes served to the table directly in baking cups. To prepare the Brownie using this recipe, you need 8 molds with a diameter of 6 cm.

First of all, we heat the oven to 165 degrees and lubricate the molds for baking with oil. Chocolate and butter (100 g each) is melted on a steam bath. Eggs (2 pcs.) And sugar (75 g) whisk together with a mixer and add flour (as much). Prepared mass is connected with chocolate and mixed. Place the dough in molds, filling ¾ volume. Brownie is baked for 12 minutes.

Brownie with cream cheese

We present the recipe for brownie with cream cheese filling. Chocolate dessert with a gentle addition will be to the liking of all lovers of wet baking.

This is how the brownie (step by step):

1. The oven heats up to a temperature of 180 degrees.
2. A baking dish measuring 20 by 20 cm is lined with foil and oiled.
3. From cream cheese (200 g), powdered sugar (60 g), vanilla extract (½ tsp) whipped cream. At the end of the preparation, an egg is introduced into the creamy mass.
4. In a water bath, melted chocolate (60 g) and butter (5 tablespoons).
5. Flour (1 cup) to sift with cocoa powder (½ tbsp.), Baking powder (1 tsp) and a pinch of salt.
6. Sugar (1 cup) beat with ½ cup of natural yogurt. Introduce egg whites (2 pcs.) And vanilla extract (at the tip of the knife). Prepared mass to combine with melted chocolate.
7. Gradually enter the flour mixture. Pour a little dough into a separate bowl, and distribute the bulk in a baking dish. Top with cream cheese. The rest of the test is poured onto the creamy layer and formed with a wooden stick pattern.
8. Bake brown 45 minutes, cool, and then cut into squares measuring 5 by 5 cm.

Banana curd brownie

Another option for cooking Brownie, but not with cream cheese, but with cottage cheese. Dessert is also very delicious, especially if you take not dry, and moist cottage cheese and whip it up a little blender.

Melt chocolate and butter (100 g each) melt in any known way. Egg beat with sugar (4 tablespoons) to foam. Then add flour (2 tablespoons) and a pinch of salt. To stir thoroughly. After that you can prepare the filling. Banana, cottage cheese (250 g), sugar (50 g) and 1 egg whisk blender until smooth.

Put half the dough into a small baking dish. Top the filling and pour the rest of the dough. Brownie with cottage cheese is baked for 35 minutes at 180 degrees. Dessert is cut into portions only after complete cooling.

Chocolate Brownie Cake: recipe

By increasing the amount of ingredients in the Brownie recipe, you can get a big and delicious cake. When serving it, you can pour on chocolate glaze or divide into several cakes and grease each of them with a tasty cream.

The dough for the cake is prepared in a water bath in the following sequence:

1. The oven heats up to 175 degrees.
2. In a water bath, chocolate is melted (200 g) and butter (150 g).
3. When the mass becomes smooth, sugar (½ tbsp.) And cocoa powder (1 tbsp) are added.
4. Three eggs are introduced one at a time, an incomplete glass of flour, a baking powder (1½ tsp) and a handful of walnuts crushed into the flour.
5. The dough is laid out in a round baking dish, covered with parchment.
6. Only half an hour cake is baked. Readiness to check with a toothpick, which should remain slightly moist, but not sticky.
7. While the cake is cooling down, cook the icing. To do this, melt 100 g of dark chocolate and a couple tablespoons of butter. Ready to cover the cake with cooked icing and leave until completely cooled down for the night.

Recommendations for cooking Brownie

Chocolate dessert has its own cooking characteristics, and without recommendations in this case is indispensable.

1. For brownies, you can take bitter or semisweet chocolate. But milk for this pie will not work. In extreme cases, it can be used in a 1: 1 ratio with black.
2. To prepare brownies with cherries it is necessary to take only ripe berries, without flaws. Then the result will turn out, impressive even the true gourmets.
3. Do not bake brown at temperatures above 180 degrees. Otherwise it will simply dry, but it will not be baked.
4. Cut the brownies only after cooling. Otherwise, the dessert can stick to the knife, and the top crust crackles.
5. You can serve brownie with coffee, tea or a ball of vanilla ice cream.