Name: Best Ever Easy Brownie Recipe
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 24
Cuisine: american
Ingredients: 100 g or 2/3 cup dark BAKING chocolate; 100 g or 1/2 cup butter; 325 g or 1 1/2 cups sugar; 3 eggs; 125 g or 1 cup All Purpose / Plain Flour; 2 Tablespoons espresso coffee; 2 Tablespoons Cocoa powder unsweetened; 2 Tablespoons Finest Drinking Chocolate (I used Green & Black's); 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; pinch salt

This Easy Brownie Recipe is a basic recipe to give you brownies that are chewy & soft with a classic crispy outer, loaded with chocolate. Delicious rich chocolate dessert or snack. The best ever brownie recipe!

Best Ever Easy Brownie Recipe. This Easy Brownie Recipe is a basic recipe to give you brownies that are chewy & soft with a classic crispy outer, loaded with chocolate. Delicious rich chocolate dessert or snack.The best ever brownie recipe!

Everybody loves a good brownie! They're always popular at parties and picnics, gatherings and especially at Christmas and East time. They make great gifts, which you could wrap in some festive food wrapping and hand out to your family and friends. , after all, the rich chocolate, fudgy, gooey brownie is a decadent, rich dessert and often considered a treat.

For this recipe, we're going to show you how to make the perfect brownie, it's a basic recipe and at the end, you will see we've added some adaptations so you can add nuts, dried fruit or even swap to make blondies.

These brownies will come out perfect for you, just follow the easy recipe, have all your ingredients measured and ready and you're ready to get baking!

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1) What is the secret of a good brownie?

2) What type of chocolate is best for brownies?

9) Alternatives for these brownies

10) Storage

11) Recipe Card

12) Best Ever Easy Brownie Recipe

13) Easy Breakfast Recipes

What is the secret of a good brownie?

Don't overbeat the eggs as this puts too much air into the batter, causing the brownies to be more cake-like and less dense and fudgy.

What type of chocolate is best for brownies?

Dark Baking chocolate is best. Using dark chocolate will give your brownies a richer flavor.

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Prep Time

10 minutes

Cook Time

25 - 30 minutes

Yield

We cut these into 24 brownies, you can make larger squares, They are very rich so we felt smaller pieces were better!

You will need

8 x 8 inch (20 cm x 20 cm) pan

Ingredients

100 g or ⅔ cup dark BAKING chocolate
100 g or ½ cup butter
325 g or 1 ½ cups sugar
3 eggs
125 g or 1 cup AP Flour
2 Tablespoons espresso coffee
2 Tablespoons Cocoa powder unsweetened
2 Tablespoons Finest Drinking Chocolate (I used Green & Black's)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
pinch salt

Instructions

Grease and line your 8-inch square baking pan and pre heat oven to 175 C / 325 F / Gas 3

Beat vanilla, sugar & eggs until light.

Brownie batter consistency for Best Ever Easy Brownie Recipe

Melt butter & chocolate in the microwave in 20-second intervals until completely melted. You can also use a bowl over simmering hot water if you prefer. Add the espresso coffee.

Best Ever Easy Brownie Recipe, flour and cocoa powder, melting chocolate

Combine flour, salt, drinking chocolate & cocoa powder and add to egg mixture.

Best Ever Easy Brownie Recipe, flour and cocoa powder

Add chocolate & butter, mix well.

Best Ever Easy Brownie Recipe, mixing ingredients

If adding nuts, break them up into small pieces then spoon them into the batter now.
Pour batter into the baking pan and bake for 30 - 40 minutes.

Best Ever Easy Brownie Recipe, adding brownie batter to pan — Ready for the oven!

Hint: The brownies will look like they aren't cooked right through, that is normal. If you use a cake tester and it comes out dry, the brownies have over cooked. You are looking for the fudgy texture so the tester will come out sticky.

Allow them to cool on a rack and cut into squares after they have cooled.

Hint
If you try and cut them whilst they are still hot, they will be too gooey, and you can't cut them nice.

Alternatives for these brownies

1 cup or 150g of pecan nuts, walnuts, or dried fruit such as cranberries, and raisins. Just make sure the total amount of nuts and or raisins does not exceed 1 cup.
You can swap out the dark chocolate for white chocolate, for the same quantity, and replace the cocoa powder and drinking chocolate by adding an extra 4 tablespoons of flour. this will give you white chocolate blondies!

Storage

These brownies will keep in an air-tight container for around 7 days. Alternatively, you can freeze them in plastic wrap and a sealed bag for up to 3 months. They're really nice defrosted and microwaved for 30 seconds and then served warm.

Recipe Card

Yield: 24

Best Ever Easy Brownie Recipe

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 25 minutes

Total Time: 35 minutes

Ingredients

100 g or ⅔ cup dark BAKING chocolate 
100 g or ½ cup butter 
325 g or 1 ½ cups sugar 
3 eggs
 125 g or 1 cup All Purpose / Plain Flour 
2 Tablespoons espresso coffee 
2 Tablespoons Cocoa powder unsweetened 
2 Tablespoons Finest Drinking Chocolate (I used Green & Black's) 
1 teaspoon vanilla extract 
pinch salt

Instructions

Grease and line your 8 inch square baking pan and pre heat oven to 175 C / 325 F / Gas 3
Beat vanilla, sugar & eggs until light.
Melt butter & chocolate in the microwave in 20-second intervals until completely melted. You can also use a bowl over simmering hot water if you prefer. Add the espresso coffee.
Combine flour, salt, drinking chocolate & cocoa powder and add to egg mixture.
Add chocolate & butter, mix well.
If adding nuts, break them up into small pieces then spoon them into the batter now.
Pour batter into the baking tin and bake for 30 - 40 minutes.
Allow them to cool on a rack and cut into squares after they have cooled.
If you try and cut them whilst they are still hot, they will be too gooey, and you can't cut them nice.

Notes

ALTERNATIVES FOR THESE BROWNIES

1 cup or 150g of pecan nuts, walnuts, or dried fruit such as cranberries, and raisins. Just make sure the total amount of nuts and or raisins does not exceed 1 cup.
You can swap out the dark chocolate for white chocolate, for the same quantity, and replace the cocoa powder and drinking chocolate by adding an extra 4 tablespoons of flour. this will give you white chocolate blondies!