Best Brownie Recipe
Cook Time
35-40mins
Prep:
10 mins
Serving Size
16 slices
Ingredients
- 1 cup 8oz/240g unsalted butter, melted and cooled
- 2 tablespoons (30ml) vegetable oil
- 1 1/4 cups (90z/260g) white sugar
- 1 cup (7oz/200g) packed light brown sugar
- 4 (2oz/57g each) large eggs, at room temperature
- 1 tablespoon (15ml) pure vanilla extract
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup (3.5oz/130g) all purpose flour
- 1 cup (3.5oz/100g) good quality, unsweetened cocoa powder
- 7 oz (200g) roughly chopped chocolate or large chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 175°C (350°F).
- Lightly grease an 8x12-inch baking pan* with cooking oil spray. Line with parchment paper (or baking paper); set aside.
- Combine melted butter, oil and sugars together in a medium-sized bowl. Whisk well to combine. Add the eggs and vanilla; beat until lighter in colour (another minute).
- Sift in flour, cocoa poder and salt. Gently fold the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients unil just combined ( do not beat over as doing so well affect the texture of your brownies)
- Fold in 3/4 of the chocolate pieces.
- Pour batter into prepared pan, smoothing the top out evenly, and top with remaining chocolate pieces.
- Bake for 25-30 minutes for just under-done brownies (fudier texture) or until the centre of the brownies no longer jiggles and is just set to the touch. Or 35-40 minutes if you like your brownies well set and firm
- After 15-20 minutes, carefully remove them out the pan and allow to cool to room temperature before slicing into 16 brownies. They set while they cool.
Tips and Tricks
- Do not over beat your batter once the flour and cocoa powder are added. That creates air pockets in the batter which will give you cake-like textured brownies
- Please try not to over bake them. I'd recommend setting a timer to exactly 23 minutes on a 8x12-inch pan. If you prefer your brownies more firm you can disregard this tip.
- Baking the brownies on the top shelf is recommended since the middle shelf cooks them faster than expected and the bottom burns the top of the brownie and dries it out.
Optional
Some things that you can add to the recipe could be walnuts, peanuts, almonds, pecans, ect. Chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, shredded coconut, dried fruit (cranberries, rasins, ect).