Brownie is an American tradition, much like our charlotte. Incredibly chocolate pastry, which can be in the form of a cake, or a cookie or a cupcake. But today I propose to try the real classic brownie - chocolate-pre-chocolate, with sour islands of juicy cherries, a thin crust and a moist center.
In general, the name of this dessert quite transparently defines its essence: translated from in English brown means brown. Baking is prepared with one continuous cake, after which it is cut into portioned rectangular pieces. Brownie is a completely independent dish, so it does not need any cream. Is that a scoop of vanilla ice cream, and a cup of fragrant freshly brewed coffee ...
In addition to cherries (or other berries with a dense texture so that there is not a lot of juice when baking), brownies can be made with any nuts, cottage cheese, and even chocolate chips. There are a huge number of brownie recipe options, so starting from the original, you can always come up with something new. But I note that the dough for this baking does not contain any baking powder or baking soda - this is important to make a real classic brownie.
Ingredients:
Cooking step by step with photos:
First of all, turn on the oven to warm up (180 degrees) and prepare the berries. We need about 300 grams of pitted cherries, so take 350 grams, although this does not matter - if there are few cherries, 200-250 grams will suffice. I use a rather ancient device, but you can remove the bones with a pin, hairpin, teaspoon or just your fingers. The result should be 300 grams of pitted cherries. In winter, you can cook brownies with frozen berries - it will turn out just as well. True, when the cherry is completely thawed, drain the juice from it (just drink it).
In a convenient bowl, combine 200 grams of good dark chocolate, which we break into pieces or chop with a knife, and 100 grams of butter. Despite the fact that it is recommended to melt chocolate in a water bath, it is much faster and more convenient to do this in a microwave oven on the Defrosting mode. The most important thing is not to overheat the chocolate, otherwise it will curl up into lumps. Then there will be no going back. Every 5-10 seconds of heating in the micro, we take out a bowl with chocolate and butter, mix everything with a spoon or fork. When the chocolate is hot enough, just stir it thoroughly - the pieces will melt completely on their own from the heat of the butter. By the way, dark chocolate melts longer than milk chocolate. But in this recipe, I still drowned chocolate with butter in a water bath on the stove, since it was in this dish that I later made the dough for brownie with cherries.
Add to it 150 grams of sugar and 20 grams of cocoa. Mix everything thoroughly with a spatula or spoon. Don't expect all the sugar to completely dissolve - it's not necessary.
Next, we begin to introduce 1 raw chicken egg stirring the dough with a spatula or spoon. The second and third are added only after we have completely intervened the previous one.
Bake brownies with cherries in a preheated oven at 180 degrees at an average level. Baking time is approximately 20-30 minutes. This difference is quite explainable by the behavior of each particular oven, as well as the size of the form. The check for doneness of the brownie is the elastic top crust, which, when pressed with a finger, is a little springy and does not stick. Personally, I bake this dessert for 27 minutes. We cool the finished brownie with cherries right in the form, after which it can be cut into portioned pieces.
Perhaps someone ready-made brownie will seem not baked, but it should be so - this is not a cupcake. A dense crust on top, an elastic bottom, and inside - a delicate, but at the same time stable chocolate mass, which slightly stretches behind the knife. This is how a real brownie should be. Yes, and many, many more cherries, the sourness of which wonderfully complements the richness of the chocolate dough. Perfect for a cup of coffee!
Cooking instructions
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1. Break the chocolate into pieces. Melt with butter in a water bath.
2. 2 eggs and 50 grams of sugar, beat with a mixer, add a pinch of salt and vanilla sugar. Crib How to check egg quality
3. For curd cream, mix cottage cheese with sugar and the remaining eggs (2 pieces). Blend with a mixer until creamy. If the cottage cheese is granular, wipe it through a sieve beforehand. Crib How to check egg quality
4. In beaten eggs with sugar, add cooled, melted chocolate. Add baking powder and flour. Mix with a mixer at the lowest speed. Tool Mixer Beating egg whites, as well as kneading other substances like minced meat or dough, is convenient not by hand (as it takes time and effort), but with a mixer like KitchenAid. For example, the Artisan model has ten speed settings and three different attachments to work with any consistency, besides, it is also a versatile food processor.
5. In a form (I have a detachable one), with high sides, greased with butter, pour 1/3 of the dough. Distribute according to the form. Spread half curd mass. The recipe said that it would spread, but this did not happen to me - I smoothed it with a spatula. Spread cherries on the mass - half of the total amount. Tool Silicone spatulas Silicone spatulas can be used to stir sticky textures like bean curd and buckwheat noodles. They have the degree of elasticity and softness necessary for this delicate matter. Mario Batali, a veteran chef and television star, has come up with kitchen tools that make cooking a spectacle. The handles of its blades are wooden and therefore pleasant to the touch, and the silicone parts are some kind of colored spots among the boring metallic gray of the dishes.
6. Next, repeat the layers: dough, mass, cherry, dough. Try to distribute the dough evenly, somewhere it may not work out - it's not scary. On the top layer, you can make stains with a knife. Bake for 40-50 minutes in an oven preheated to 180 degrees. Readiness to check with a splinter - it should be dry. Cool in shape. Tool Oven thermometer How the oven actually heats up, even if you set a specific temperature, can only be understood with experience. It is better to have a small thermometer on hand, which is placed in the oven or simply hung on the grate. And it is better that it shows degrees Celsius and Fahrenheit simultaneously and accurately - like a Swiss watch. A thermometer is important when it is necessary to strictly observe the temperature regime: for example, in the case of baking.
It may seem to you that a brownie is an ordinary chocolate pie cut into portioned pieces, but do not try to tell your American friends about this, because you risk inflicting a strong offense. After all, for them it is a national dessert. Its popularity at home is so great that this cake with a crispy crust and a moist middle has literally become a cult.
Brownie is a classic American dessert that was first made in the famous Chicago hotel in 1893. Chocolate cake quickly became popular and spread all over the world, so it is not surprising that now it is served not only in restaurants and cafes, but also cooked at home.
When you first try this simple, but at the same time surprisingly tasty delicacy, you will surely have a desire to thank its creator with all my heart. Below we will tell the story of the famous cake and interesting facts:
- There are three legends about the appearance of brownies. The first tells about a negligent chef who accidentally added chocolate to breadcrumbs. The second is about a cook who forgot about flour. The third, about a housewife in a hurry to bake a dessert for unexpected guests, but forgot to put baking powder in it. There was no time to redo it, so she served the resulting flat result to the table, cutting it into pieces.
- The classic brownie contains only chocolate, butter, sugar, eggs and flour. If dark chocolate is taken, then the amount of sugar is slightly increased to balance the taste.
- As part of chocolate brownie, a minimum of flour and no baking powder at all, cream is used instead of butter.
- Brownie cupcakes contain a little less butter and more flour than in the classic recipe, but they put a little baking powder in them. Softened butter is whipped with sugar, not melted chocolate. The resulting air mixture helps the cupcakes rise better.
- Brownie cakes are more viscous due to the addition of caramel.
- Brownies without chocolate, with brown sugar, butter and eggs, similar in texture to muffins, are called "blondies".
- Brownies are considered a food that helps show your tender and reverent feelings for the person you serve to her.
- Brownies have their own holiday, celebrated annually on December 8th.
- Wikipedia gives two meanings for the word "Brownie". First, these are fabulous, tiny, good-natured little brownies who help people secretly, at night. The second definition is a small sweet cake made from chocolate. We combine the concept of No. 1 and No. 2, and we get "fabulous cakes."
We have prepared some really fabulous delicious recipes Brownies, from which you will definitely be able to choose the most suitable one for yourself, which will definitely become your crown.
Classic chocolate brownie - step by step photo recipe
There are a lot of recipes for preparing this delicacy, it is prepared with nuts, berries, fruits, cocoa, mint or mascarpone are added, however, if you do not know the intricacies of cooking, even the most exquisite flavors will never save brownies.
This recipe will help you quickly and easily prepare brownies, exactly the way they should be - with a cracked crust and a moist center.
Cooking time: 1 hour 0 minutes
Quantity: 6 servings
Ingredients
- Dark chocolate: 200 g
- Butter: 120 g
- Eggs: 3 pcs.
- Sugar: 100 g
- Flour: 130 g
- Salt: a pinch
Cooking instructions
How to make brownie cake with cherries?
If you add cherry sourness to the rich chocolate taste of brownie, we get a simply bewitching result. The recipe itself is so simple that its preparation, if we discard the baking time, will take you a few minutes. Like the classic version of the dessert, the finished result has a crispy crust and a moist core.
Required Ingredients:
- 2 extra dark chocolate bars (100 g each);
- 370 g fresh or frozen cherries (it does not need to be defrosted);
- 1.5 st. sugar (preferably brown), if there is no such thing in the house, feel free to take white;
- 1 pack vanilla;
- 2/3 st. flour;
- 40 g cocoa;
- 3 eggs;
- 1 tsp baking powder.
How to cook brownie with cherries step by step:
- Melt the butter with chocolates in a water bath, let them cool.
- Add eggs, vanilla and sugar, beat.
- Sift the baking powder, flour and cocoa through a fine-mesh sieve to the chocolate mixture.
- Thoroughly mix the dough for the future brownie, transfer it to a baking dish or muffin tins, which we pre-lubricate with fat. We level the surface.
- We spread the cherries on the dough and set to bake in the oven already heated to 180⁰ for 40-50 minutes. Cupcakes bake for 10 minutes less.
- Let the finished dessert cool completely, then transfer it to a dish of a suitable size and sprinkle with powder, decorate with cherry syrup.
- Chocolate Cherry Brownie pairs best with coffee or cappuccino.
Brownie recipe with cottage cheese
IN classic recipes brownies you will not find baking powder, but even the most eminent chefs do not disdain the addition of this ingredient. We decided not to deviate from their example and offer you a dessert option with the most delicate curd filling, which goes well with the bitterness of extra dark chocolate.
For chocolate dough:
- 1.5 bars of extra dark chocolate;
- 0.15 kg of butter;
- 3 eggs;
- up to 1 glass of sugar;
- 2/3 st. flour;
- 60 g cocoa;
- ½ tsp baking powder (at your discretion);
- ground ginger, cloves and cinnamon to taste;
- a pinch of salt.
Curd filling brownie:
- 0.15 kg of cottage cheese;
- 3 eggs;
- 60-80 g of sugar;
- 1 pack vanilla.
Cooking steps brownie with cottage cheese:
- Melt the butter with chocolate broken into pieces in a steam bath.
- Mix eggs with sugar;
- We introduce flour, with spices, baking powder and salt, mix thoroughly.
- Mix all ingredients for the filling in a separate bowl.
- We cover the form with waxed paper or foil, pour about 2/3 of our dough onto it.
- From above we form a layer of curd filling, spreading it with a spoon. Pour the rest of the dough on it, leveling the surface. If desired, the layers can be mixed a little.
- Baking time in a hot oven is about half an hour.
The perfect dessert - brownie with cottage cheese and cherries
True, previous brownie recipes, after reading them, make you involuntarily lick your lips? And imagine how yummy it will turn out if you combine them and make a curd-cherry brownie.
There will be quite a lot of additional additives in the pie that are not provided for in the classic recipe, so again you will have to retreat and add baking powder. But that doesn't detract from the taste.
Required Ingredients:
- 1 bar of extra dark chocolate;
- 0.13 kg of butter;
- 1 st. Sahara;
- 4 eggs;
- 1 st. flour;
- 10 g baking powder;
- 1 pack vanilla;
- 0.3 kg fresh or frozen cherries;
- 0.3 kg of fat cottage cheese, grated through a sieve or curd mass;
- a pinch of salt.
Cooking order:
- We melt the butter with chocolate, mix and leave to cool.
- Beat 2 eggs and half a glass of sugar with a mixer until white.
- Mix 2 more eggs with cottage cheese, sugar residues.
- We combine the cooled chocolate mass with the egg.
- We cover the form with paper, then we begin to lay out the layers: 1/3 of the chocolate dough, 1/2 of the curd filling, half of the cherry, 1/3 of the dough, 1/2 of the curd filling, the remaining cherry, 1/3 of the dough.
- In a preheated oven, the cake will cook for about 45-50 minutes.
- We take out the cake and let it cool right in the form, after that we take it out and sprinkle it with plenty of powdered sugar.
Brownie in a multicooker
The slow cooker is a technical achievement praised by the mistresses of this world. This device successfully copes with the preparation of the crown American dessert. Brownies cooked in a slow cooker will be just the right moisture and texture.
Required Ingredients:
- 2 extra dark chocolate bars;
- 3 eggs;
- 2/3 st. Sahara;
- 1 pack vanilla;
- 0.15 kg of butter;
- 1 st. flour;
- 20-40 g cocoa;
- 1/3 tsp baking powder;
- a pinch of salt and spices to taste.
Cooking order:
- Traditionally, in a water bath, melt the chocolate with butter, let the resulting mass cool to room temperature.
- We mix eggs with ordinary and vanilla sugar without using a mixer.
- Mix chocolate and egg masses.
- We introduce flour with baking powder, salt, cocoa and spices (cardomon, ginger, cloves, cinnamon), mix until the dough is completely homogeneous.
- We shift everything into a greased multicooker bowl. We cook on "Baking" for about 45 minutes. True, a brownie prepared in this way does not have a traditional sugar crust, but this does not make it tasteless.
Brownie at home with cocoa
To make brownies according to this recipe, you will have to work hard and look for really high-quality cocoa (we remind you that Nesquik does not belong to the category of cocoa).
As you can see, baking powder is not listed among the ingredients, so do not expect the dough to rise. It will be exactly as it should be, not high with a wet core.
Required Ingredients:
- 0.1 kg of butter;
- 0.1 kg of unsweetened cocoa;
- 1 st. sugar (maybe a little less);
- 3 eggs;
- ½ st. flour;
- a handful of nuts;
- a pinch of salt.
Cooking order:
- We heat the oil in a steam bath, mix it with eggs, cocoa and sugar.
- When the butter mixture has cooled to room temperature, add eggs to it separately.
- Separately, mix the sifted flour with nuts, add the liquid mass to them, mix thoroughly. If you do the opposite, adding flour to the cocoa mass, it will be practically impossible to get rid of the lumps formed.
- We cover a suitable size square or rectangular shape with waxed paper and pour the dough on it. In a preheated oven, baking time is from a quarter of an hour to 25 minutes. It depends on your preferences and the desired degree of doneness of the cakes.
- Once the brownies have cooled to room temperature, place them in the refrigerator overnight. Served sprinkled with powder and cut into small portions.
There are a few common mistakes made when making brownies. They seem to be quite insignificant, but the final result is spoiled very noticeably. By ignoring the recommendations below, you risk leaving yourself and your loved ones without the perfect brownie.
Simple steps to achieve chocolate perfection:
- Introduce the ingredients into the flour, and not vice versa, as many are accustomed to doing. So you will be able to get rid of lumps that can thoroughly spoil the desired result.
- Eggs should only be at room temperature. Cold eggs will make the texture of the dessert denser than you would like. Take the eggs out of the fridge an hour and a half before baking.
- After placing the brownie in the oven, check it several times before the end of the time indicated in the recipe.
- Do not ignore such an achievement of civilization as a kitchen timer. We hope there is no need to explain why it is needed. Watch the time and keep an eye on the readiness of the brownies.
Chocolate brownie is a traditional American dessert, like apple pie or Napoleon cake. Brownie is an original, incredible and delicious pastry that can be served in the form of a cake, pie, brownie, cookie and even a cupcake. It is important to note that in any variation, chocolate brownie turns out to be incredibly tasty, nutritious, aromatic and rich. Despite the many different recipes, the most delicious is the classic dessert, in which there are pleasant sour notes that the cherry gives. Brownies are covered with a beautiful and crispy crust, as well as a tender, moist and melt-in-your-mouth filling.
Technology and recipe
Chocolate brownie with cherries is an incredibly tasty, hearty and fragrant American dessert. Who doesn't love brownies? Probably only those who have never tried it in their life. If you are among those who did not enjoy the tender and juicy structure of brownies, then a detailed and adequate recipe with a photo will help you correct the situation. There is nothing difficult in the process of making a chocolate dessert, since the technology is extremely simple, and most importantly, you will need a minimum amount of ingredients.
Important! The recipe for brownie with cherries should not contain baking soda, baking powder, otherwise the dessert will not be classic!
To make a chocolate brownie delicious, it is important to follow step by step recipe which contains detailed and clear photographs. A recipe with a photo will help you quickly and easily bake the most delicious chocolate dessert.
- chocolate 95% - at least 200 grams;
- sugar - 120 grams;
- butter - 110 grams;
- eggs - 3 pieces;
- cocoa powder - 30 grams;
- flour - 90 grams;
- pitted cherries - 300-400 grams.
Cooking features:
To prepare an insanely nutritious and easy homemade dessert, you need to prepare all the ingredients. It is important that the products are fresh and of high quality. Try to buy good dark chocolate, frozen cherries can be used if fresh is not available. As for butter, try to use a product with a high fat content. The flour must be sifted so that it is enriched with oxygen.
The most important, crucial step is working with chocolate, since it must be properly, competently melted so as not to spoil the consistency and taste. Take a convenient dish, break 200 grams of high-quality dark chocolate, add butter. If you follow the rules, then it’s worth melting on. However, you do what is convenient for you, so you can in the microwave, on the stove, in the oven.
When the chocolate has reached the desired consistency, remove it and let cool slightly. Then add the required amount of cocoa powder and sugar to it.
Stir thoroughly, no need to wait for the sugar to dissolve, as this is not necessary. Gradually beat in one egg at a time into the bowl, gently stirring the chocolate mass.
It is important to properly prepare the cherries for brownies. If the cherry is frozen, then wait until it takes the desired shape, then drain the juice. At the same time, you can turn on the oven, as it should warm up to 180-190 degrees. Add the finished cherry to the chocolate mass.
Then add the sifted flour, mix thoroughly. It is impossible for lumps or dry particles of flour to remain, as the brownie will not turn out perfect.
As for the baking mold, silicone is best. Lubricate it with a small amount of butter, pour the resulting chocolate dough. Send to the oven. The baking time for the dessert is twenty-five minutes.
Chocolate brownie is ready. Let it cool, cut into portions. The top can be sprinkled with cocoa powder or icing sugar, decorate with mint leaves.
It may seem to some that the cake turned out to be not baked, but do not be alarmed, it should be so, because this is not a cupcake and not an ordinary mother's pie. The bottom should be elastic, and the top should be covered with a dense crust. As for the middle, it turns out to be very juicy, moist, tender and viscous. Bon appetit everyone!
