Brownie is one of the traditional dishes of the Americans. It is a chocolate cake cut into square pieces, or a cake with a crispy crust and a viscous inside. Today there are many recipes for making dessert. In the original version, it contains walnuts and apricot glaze.
Selection of ingredients
To make a classic dessert at home, you need a bar of chocolate. It must be broken into pieces and melted in a water bath. You should choose high-quality chocolate to get the excellent taste of the sweet dish. All the ingredients used in the recipes should have room temperature, because when they are cooled, they mix worse and become more difficult to get a homogeneous mass.
Did you know? Brownie appeared on the order of socialite Berta Palmer. In 1893, she ordered a dessert from the pastry chef Palmer House Hotel, which would be convenient for participants at the Columbia Exhibition to eat out of the boxes.
Brownie recipe
Properly prepared dessert is delicious and beautiful in appearance. It can be served with dried fruits, nuts, ice cream, syrup, chocolate.
Various ingredients are added to brownie, but it is unsuccessful if too many additional products are introduced into it, for example, nuts, hazelnuts, mint, vanilla, syrup, cinnamon. Should stay on 1-3 supplements. Otherwise, the taste may be spoiled. Cutting dessert should only be done after complete cooling. You can put it in the refrigerator for a couple of hours.
Classic Nut Brownie
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Classic Nut Brown
Important! To achieve the formation of a crispy top and soft inside, it is important to keep the dessert in the oven for 20-30 minutes at a temperature of + 180 ° C. If you remove it earlier, it will turn out to be liquid, later - overdried.
Walnut Orange Brownie
9 slices1 h
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Melt butter with sugar.
- Add baking powder to flour.
- Grind walnut kernels with a pestle in a mortar.
- Add nuts to flour.
- Enter the salt.
- Grate the orange peel on a fine grater.
- Mix it with flour.
- Add the juice of one orange to the melted butter.
- Break the chocolate into small pieces.
- Mix it with flour, nuts and zest.
- Drive eggs.
- Mix everything, pour warm butter with sugar.
- Cover the mold with baking paper.
- Lubricate with a little oil.
- Pour and distribute the dough.
- Put halves of nuts for decoration.
- Preheat the oven to + 190 ° C.
- Bake dessert for 20–25 minutes.
- Finished brownie cut into square pieces.
Video recipe
Did you know? For the first time the word "brownie" is used in 1896. It is mentioned in Fanny Farmer's cookbook and is used to name molasses cakes.
Brownies with Caramel and Nuts
6-8 slices1 h
Nutritional value per 100 g:
To beat sugar with butter. Stir in the egg mass, salt, melted chocolate.
Mix the ingredients well.
Add flour and baking powder to the mixture.
Cover the baking dish with paper and grease.
Pour the dough into the mold, distributing it evenly.
Preheat the oven to + 180 ° C. Bake dessert for 15–20 minutes. Chop nuts.
Proceed to the preparation of caramel: pour cream into a pan with a thick bottom and place iris, put them in a water bath or on a slow fire.
With constant stirring, melt the iris.
Korzh divided into 2 parts.
Put warm caramel on one.
Put the second cake on top.
Pour the remaining caramel.
Sprinkle with nuts.
To beat sugar with butter. Stir in the egg mass, salt, melted chocolate.
Mix the ingredients well.
Add flour and baking powder to the mixture.
Cover the baking dish with paper and grease.
Pour the dough into the mold, distributing it evenly.
Preheat the oven to + 180 ° C. Bake dessert for 15–20 minutes. Chop nuts.
Proceed to the preparation of caramel: pour cream into a pan with a thick bottom and place iris, put them in a water bath or on a slow fire.
With constant stirring, melt the iris.
Korzh divided into 2 parts.
Put warm caramel on one.
Put the second cake on top.
Pour the remaining caramel.
Sprinkle with nuts.Video recipe
So, making brownies at home is not difficult. You can get a good dessert by following the cooking technology and adhering to the recommended proportions of the ingredients. Proper brownie has a crispy crust and a soft middle.Important! Instead of dark chocolate in brownie, you can use milk or white.
