A traditional American Brownie cake is easily cooked by any hostess. The only difficulty is not to overdo it in the oven, preserving the tempting moisture and heaviness of the cakes. A versatile chocolate dessert can be served warm and chilled, in the form of a cake, cake or cake.

Classic recipe

Traditionally, one tall cake is baked. It is coated with a copious layer of cocoa powder or grated chocolate. If desired, the cake is decorated with berries, soft chocolates or something else. If you need a high cake, each cake for it will have to be baked separately. It is rather difficult to carefully cut the loose cake into several thin ones.


On a single layer cake you will need:

  • 200 g of chocolate;
  • 180 g butter;
  • 180 g of sugar;
  • three eggs;
  • 125 g flour.

Chocolate for Brownie needs dark, bitter, with a cocoa content of 72% and above. If this is not the case, add a couple of spoons of cocoa powder to the dough.

  1. Break the chocolate into slices. Cut the butter in the same slices.
  2. Melt in a water bath without a lid. Chocolate is rolled up if water gets into it, so all dishes should be dry.
  3. Add sugar and heat until a smooth, shiny glaze without grains is obtained.
  4. Cool slightly and introduce eggs one at a time, whipping chocolate together.
  5. Sift flour and cocoa into a chocolate mixture.
  6. Stir the dough thoroughly.
  7. Grease the mold and sprinkle with cocoa powder through a sieve. It is even easier to take out the finished dessert if the form is covered with parchment baking paper.
  8. Bake in a preheated oven to 170⁰C for 30-35 minutes. The crust should be dense and smooth. Inside the dough is as if not baked, the crumbs stick to the wooden skewer, which he checks. Moreover, in the middle it should not be liquid and soft.

Dessert with cherry

How many housewives, so many recipes for this dessert. Most often experiment with filling. The most successful and popular duet: cognac and cherry. Berries will dilute the rich bitterness of chocolate with fresh sourness, and alcohol will deepen the taste.

For a portion of the classic test from the previous recipe you will need:

  • 40 ml of cognac;
  • 400 g of cherries.

How to add the filling:

  1. Pour cognac with eggs into slightly cooled chocolate.
  2. Prepare the cherry and add it to the dough before pouring into the form. The dough with berries should not stand for a long time so that the cherry does not give juice.
  3. Peel fresh cherries and sprinkle with starch. He will hold juice for a short while.
  4. Throw the canned cherry in a colander to stack the syrup. If the dessert is intended for children, cognac can be replaced with this syrup. Add it not with berries, but separately, carefully kneading the dough.
  5. Defrost frozen cherries in two stages: on the shelf of the refrigerator and indoors. Throw soft berries in a colander and squeeze even a little.

Step by step cooking with cottage cheese

Chocolate dessert with white curd and vanilla filling looks spectacular.

Ingredients:

  • 150 g of viscous cottage cheese;
  • three eggs;
  • 100 g of powdered sugar;
  • vanilla extract.

Classic dough can be varied with grated ginger, nutmeg or cinnamon. Spices interestingly complement the delicate creamy taste of the filling.

  1. Kill all the ingredients in a blender in a smooth thick mass. If the filling is prepared by hand, the cottage cheese must be thoroughly grinded so that no dense grains remain. The mixture should have a uniform cream consistency.
  2. Put two-thirds of the chocolate dough into the parchment-covered form.
  3. Gently spread the curd cream on top with a spoon. It is not advisable that the filling mix with the bottom layer and fall to the bottom.
  4. Pour the rest of the dough. The top layer, on the contrary, can be beautifully mixed with the filling by drawing on the surface with a fork or the tip of a knife.
  5. Bake at 180 ° C for about half an hour.

How to make banana and cottage cheese

The filling of cottage cheese with banana is more tender and soft. It needs less sugar and eggs. The dough is better to use the classic, without spices, to feel a delicate fruity flavor.

For banana-curd filling:

  • two bananas;
  • two eggs;
  • 150 g of cottage cheese;
  • 50 g of powdered sugar.

Cooking:

  1. Combine the ingredients. The mass will turn out liquid, even if you use dry cottage cheese. Therefore, it can not be laid out in a continuous layer.
  2. Pour two-thirds of the dough into the parchment-covered form. Type a filling with a teaspoon and spread in separate sections. On top, also with a small spoon, cover the filling with chocolate mass. Continue staggered. On the top layer with a knife, make grooves so that the colored masses mix beautifully.
  3. Bake at 180⁰C for half an hour. Check the readiness with a wooden skewer in the area where there is no filling.
  4. Chop when the banana filling thickens.

Brownie Cake with White Chocolate

White Brownie will surprise fans of the classic recipe. This is another basic recipe for stuffing experiments.

Ingredients:

  • 100 g of white chocolate;
  • 75 g of oil;
  • 100 g of sugar;
  • three eggs;
  • 50 g of flour;
  • 50 g of potato starch;
  • vanilla extract.


Work Stages:

  1. Melt chocolate and butter in a dry container. White chocolate, like black, does not like water and can curl.
  2. Beat eggs with sugar.
  3. Connect the masses when the chocolate cools down a little.
  4. Sift flour and knead a homogeneous dough without lumps.

For filling:

  • 200 g of walnuts;
  • 300 g of white chocolate.

You can pre-freeze chocolate. Cutting will be more difficult, but the pieces will not melt in the oven.

  1. Cut the chocolate into small cubes.
  2. Crush nuts with a knife to make small pieces, but not grit. Add to the dough.
  3. Bake at 180⁰C for 30-35 minutes.

Cooking with Cocoa and Honey

If you did not find a good chocolate for Brownie baking, you can completely replace it with cocoa powder. Do not assume that this is an economy class option. Often this recipe is chosen to reduce the amount of fat in the dessert. To make the taste more interesting, add a little honey and vanilla to the dough.

Ingredients:

  • 150 g of oil;
  • 100 g of sugar;
  • 2 g of salt;
  • 30 g of natural honey;
  • two eggs;
  • 50 g of cocoa powder;
  • 50 g of flour;
  • 5 g of baking powder;
  • vanilla extract.

Cooking:

  1. Dissolve honey, butter and sugar in a water bath.
  2. Cool slightly. Add salt and vanilla extract.
  3. Beat eggs one at a time.
  4. Sift the dry ingredients into the mixture.
  5. To stir thoroughly. Pour into a greased form.
  6. Bake at 170⁰C for half an hour.

Brownie chocolate cake in a slow cooker

An ideal microclimate for making dessert creates a slow cooker. In it, Brownie is impossible to dry.

  1. Grease a bowl of multicookers.
  2. Pour the dough prepared according to any proposed recipe, optionally add the filling.
  3. Set the "Baking" mode for an hour.
  4. After a signal of readiness for five minutes, do not open the device.
  5. Cool for another five minutes in the open bowl of the multicooker. After that, Brownies can easily separate from the walls.
  6. Set aside on a wire rack before serving.

Recipe from Julia Vysotskaya

The recipe for orange brownie with walnuts, proposed by Julia Alexandrovna, has an original and refined taste.

Ingredients:

  • 160 g of flour;
  • 5 g baking powder;
  • 150 g of brown sugar;
  • 100 g butter;
  • two eggs;
  • 2 g of salt;
  • 100 g of milk chocolate;
  • 200 g of walnuts;
  • large orange.

Stages of preparation:

  1. Melt butter with sugar on a plate. It can even boil. Due to the large amount of sugar, the mixture will thicken, but the oil will not allow it to burn.
  2. Squeeze orange juice into hot oil. Enough half of the fruit. Leave the mixture to warm over low heat.
  3. Sift flour, baking powder and salt into a bowl.
  4. Grind the nuts in a mortar and pour into flour. Leave a few whole halves for decoration.
  5. Add the chocolate chopped into small pieces. It is dairy varieties that will pleasantly shade the orange note. Dark chocolate, according to Yulia Alexandrovna, is harsh for this dessert.
  6. Grate the zest immediately in flour.
  7. Pour in the eggs without whipping.
  8. Stir the dough so that the flour does not get lumpy.
  9. Cool melted butter slightly, but not completely. Pour slowly into the dough while mixing it. Although the butter is still hot, the chocolate will not dissolve completely. Slices of hard chocolate are a pleasant surprise in a soft, moist dessert. The dough should not stand for a long time, so the oven is preheated in advance.
  10. Cover the form with parchment. It can be lightly greased to make a fragile dessert easier to take out.
  11. Pour the dough and garnish with halves of nuts.
  12. Bake at 190⁰C for 20-25 minutes.

The aromas of chocolate and orange will immediately gather the whole family at the table, but it is better to have patience and cut a well-cooled dessert.

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