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Brownie Recipe – Easy to Prepare Juicy Cake with Chocolate
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Thomas Sixt is a chef, food photographer, cookbook author and blogger.
Here he shares recipes, answers cooking questions and helps with cooking.
Find my brownie recipe here – the chocolate cake always inspires enthusiasm!
Brownies are ideal as a gift for colleagues, friends or the next picnic.
The simple cake can be kept for a good 3-4 days, is easy to transport and tastes phenomenal as a sweet finger food! Here are the instructions… Have fun and good luck!
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1. Brownie Recipe
Brownie
Baked, photographed, written down and translated by chef Thomas Sixt.
Servings 6
Calories 641
Total Time 45 Min.
Preparation Time 30 Min.
Cook Time 0 Min.
Easy instructions for making chocolate cake with icing.
Ingredients
| Chocolateglaze | ||
| 200 | g | dark chocolate (Dark chocolate or dark block chocolate) |
| 30 | g | butter |
| cake batter | ||
| 4 | Stück | eggs |
| 250 | g | icing sugar |
| 50 | ml | milk |
| 200 | g | almond flour |
| 5 | EL | cacao |
Instruction
Baking sheet
Preheat the oven to 175°C hot air.
–> Cover a deep baking tray with baking paper.
-> I also used a baking pan.
-> Alternatively, you can also use a small baking tray or a large round cake tin.
Prepare ingredients
Prepare the ingredients in the kitchen.
-> Important: The butter should be soft or at room temperature.
Prepare chocolate
Cut the 200 g dark chocolate into small pieces.
–> Chopped chocolate melts better and more evenly
Melt chocolate
Place the chocolate in a bowl and warm in the microwave.
—> Alternatively, melt the chocolate in a water bath or directly in the pot.
Provide butter
Place the room temperature butter in a mixing bowl.
Stir butter
Cream the butter with a hand mixer.
Admit egg
First, beat an egg into the butter and mix the egg with the butter.
Add eggs
Then add the remaining eggs to the butter and mix.
Add Ingredients
Add sugar, milk, almonds and cocoa.
Mix dough
Mix the ingredients at high speed with the hand mixer.
Provide chocolate
Prepare the melted chocolate.
The chocolate should be lip-warm before you mix it with the rest of the ingredients.
Add chocolate
Add melted chocolate to batter.
Mix chocolate
Stir the melted chocolate into the batter.
Dough ready
Before the final mixing, clean the edge of the dough bowl with a spatula and stir the dough again.
Pour in the cake batter
Pour the cake mixture onto the baking sheet and smooth out with a spatula.
Clean bowl
Lick the bowl of dough.
bake brownies
Bake brownies for about 40-45 minutes.
–> The baking time depends on the filling height.
–> Take the baked cake out of the oven and pierce it with a wooden skewer.
-> If there are no more crumbs on the wooden skewer, then the cake is baked.
Leave the cake to cool in the kitchen.
Cut chocolate
Cut the dark chocolate into small pieces for the glaze.
Divide chocolate
Prepare about 1/3 of the chocolate in an extra bowl.
Melt chocolate
Slowly melt the chocolate in the saucepan on heat setting 1 of 12.
Stir the chocolate as you go.
Temper chocolate
Add the remaining chocolate to the melted chocolate and stir.
Melt the chocolate.
Add butter
Add a few knobs of butter, about 30g, to the melted chocolate and melt next to the stove.
Heat the chocolate again for a good minute on heat setting 1 of 12, then place it next to the stove to glaze the cake.
Pour chocolate
Pour the melted chocolate icing onto the cooled brownie cake.
Distribute chocolate
Spread the chocolate icing over the brownie cake.
Glazed brownie
Leave the glazed brownie in the kitchen.
The chocolate icing will take about 2 hours to set.
Cut brownie
Cut the cake open, you can cut big or small squares.
-> I had to cut the cake out of the mold first.
Serve brownie
Arrange the slices of cake on a platter and serve with the coffee.
-> The perfect Sunday cake is ready 🙂
Brownie dessert
Alternatively, you can arrange small pieces of cake with pistachio slivers, powdered sugar and mint for dessert.
–> Your dessert for the perfect dinner is ready 🙂
Video
You can keep the chocolate brownie refrigerated for up to 5 days.
Courses
Cousine
2. Overview of Calories and Nutritional Values
3. Ingredients Overview for Brownies
The quick chocolate cake is practical, you only need a few ingredients.
At the same time, I have prepared a gluten-free cake without wheat flour for you.
This chocolate cake is more digestible, tastes great and makes everyone happy.
The ingredients for your supermarket rally can be found below:
4. Hint for Preparing Brownie without Flour
This no-flour cake is gluten-free. Instead of flour I put ground almonds in the dough.
To be honest, I personally don’t tolerate wheat flour very well.
That’s why I like recipes that create balance and are an alternative.
I wrote a separate article on the subject of gluten-free nutrition .
5. This is How the Brownie Chocolate Icing is Perfect
“How does chocolate tempering work easily and safely?”
This is one of the most common questions emailed to me.
Everyone wants a nice shiny chocolate frosting on the cake and it should still be firm.
How does this work? The following is important for this:
You have to melt the chocolate at a low temperature.
I always cut the chocolate into small pieces and don’t use a water bath.
I put some of the cut chocolate in a bowl.
I slowly melt the chocolate in the pot at heat setting 1 of 12. Please stir the pot.
With this method, you can still touch the bottom of the pot without burning your fingers.
The chocolate is slowly melting, when the chocolate is melted I add the rest of the chocolate from the bowl and stir the chocolate until those chocolate pieces are melted as well.
Then I add some butter. I cut the butter into thin slices.
When the butter has been stirred in, I put the pot back on the stove for a very short time, about a minute is a good amount of time. After that, the chocolate icing is ready to glaze the cake.
What have we done? First, the chocolate was melted in a temperature range of over 30°C.
Adding solid chocolate brings the temperature back below 30°C. In addition, we add some butter for the shine.
The subsequent reheating of the chocolate to just over 30°C completes the tempering of the chocolate.
You don’t need to put cakes with tempered chocolate icing in the fridge. The glaze will set, it just takes a little longer.
Chocolate icing tip from chef Thomas Sixt
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Brownie Recipe – Easy to Prepare Juicy Cake with Chocolate
Comments, Cooking Questions and Answers
Below you can write to me directly.
Please don’t forget the star rating on the recipe, 5 stars means you liked it!
That sounds fine! I wish you continued success. Kind regards Thomas
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Your blog and your recipes are a real asset. Thanks for the feast for the eyes and taste buds!
ReplyMay I help you! Kind regards Thomas
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Hi Chef Thomas, Thank you for these baking instructions! The chocolate cake was perfect for me. The video gives a first overview, ingredient pictures make sure, the step-by-step photos help with the preparation to bake safely 🧁. By the way, I've been looking for more recipe ideas for a long time, your instructions are really the clearest and most detailed. Thumbs up and ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Next I'll make the strawberry shortcake. Greetings from Berlin from Kitty
ReplyHello Kitty Ebner, you wrote me a nice message. That's very nice and I look forward to your feedback and praise. For all those reading along: The —> strawberry cake recipe <— can be found elsewhere. Kind regards and continued success! Thomas
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Servus Thomas, finally leave a message for you today. I have often baked and cooked from your blog. Always a nice experience, from discovering to shopping to the kitchen. I like your videos a lot too. The chocolate cake is great and we really like it. Greetings from Bavaria Fritz
ReplyHello Fritz, thank you for your nice and nice feedback. That makes me happy. Greetings and happy baking! Thomas
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Chocolatey and so fluffy! I'm madly in love! There are really great recipes here! I saw that there are an incredible number of great ideas here in the blog, I'm thrilled… The brownies definitely made our Sunday sweeter… especially the shiny glaze rounds it all off really well!
ReplyHello Valle, thank you, I am very happy if you like the chocolate cake. I wish you happy baking! Kind regards Thomas
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Awesome, just awesome! I've made the brownie recipe twice now – once for my family and once for my son's birthday party. 🙂 The second time I tried the good chocolate from Lindt… that was the winner so far. 🙂 Are there any other recommendations as to which chocolates are particularly suitable for this? PS: The glaze was the highlight for all of us. 🙂 rounded off the brownies and made them a special treat for the palate 😉 Tips on what we can have for a sweet afternoon next time?
ReplyHello Sally, thank you very much for your nice feedback from the bakery. Of course I'm happy about that. Ritter Sport seems to contain a lot of cocoa butter, worth a try! Otherwise, Valrhona chocolate is still a good idea. Greetings and keep baking! Thomas
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It doesn't need many words: just awesome!
ReplyHello Frank, thank you for your feedback. Feel free to contact us with cooking questions and kitchen gossip! Kind regards Thomas
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At this point it would have been better to omit the calorie count at the top *hehe* – just kiddingß. Really damn delicious, nice and juicy but still airy… and sooooooo chocolatey. 🙂 I was so happy about the sweet recipe, I just had to try it right away.
ReplyHello Liliane, nice to read from you, I'm glad of course. Because of the calories, I made a dessert brownie, it's smaller 🙂 The good thing about the cake is that it lasts, well covered with foil, the cake lasts for 3 days and tastes even better. Feel free to get in touch again! Kind regards Thomas
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My heart beats for brownies!! 🙂 And I have to be honest: Most of the time I liked the finished baking mix well enough. But I thought I would finally like to try something special at home and I surprised my friends… it's really crazy how different such "elaborate" (not in a negative sense) and almost ready brownies can taste. From now on I'll always cook my desserts and little sins of the day according to Thomas Sixt's recipe 😉
ReplyHello Ramona, thank you for your warm feedback 🙂 Also try the yeast plait, it’s especially delicious! Kind regards Thomas
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Hello Thomas, I made these brownies based on your recipe perfectly for the first time. Excellent! Maybe add more pictures to your recipe? Anyway, thank you and best regards, Margharete
ReplyHello Maggy, thank you for your positive message, I'm glad of course 🙂 Best wishes and continued success and happiness in your baking! Greetings Thomas PS Try the marble cake next
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Hello Thomas, I finally discovered a fine flourless chocolate cake from you and thank you for it. Already baked twice! Stars 🤩 Greetings Susan
ReplyHello Susan, thank you for your chocolate bakery message. I'm very happy about that! If you get a chance, try my marble cake and the New York cheesecake – both baking wonders are very fine! Kind regards Thomas
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Hi Thomas, thanks for your cake recipe, I really liked the chocolate cake. Warm greetings
ReplyHello Pauline, I'm very happy, I'll definitely try the New York Cheesecake next. It's delicious I promise! Continued success Greetings Thomas
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Hello Thomas, a nice and simple baking recipe and a successful guide. Thanks very much! My daughter has an intolerance and therefore I cannot bake normal recipes with wheat flour. Your version with almonds is very helpful. Greetings from Romy
ReplyHello Romy, thank you for your message and the positive lines. I have summarized an article on the subject of gluten-free nutrition , which I think could be helpful for you. Continued success Greetings Thomas
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Without a doubt, this cake recipe is awesome. I leave Thomas a nice greeting and a thank you. Tasted delicious!
ReplyHello Amelie, that's wonderful, thank you very much! Greetings Thomas Sixt
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Turned out wonderful without any flour! Thank you for this wonderful recipe and the ideas for the glaze.
ReplyHello Hanna, that's exactly why I like this cake so much. Thank you for writing! LG Thomas Sixt
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Hello Thomas, great recipe and without flour just right for me. Thanks!
ReplyHello Cora, I'm happy, all the best! Thomas
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Hello, Just tried the recipe, cake is in the oven and now I'm taking care of the frosting. Many thanks for the instructions and pictures. Greetings Maya
ReplyHello Maja, thanks for your nice message, it will definitely work out great! Greetings Thomas
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I LOVE LOVE LOVE this brownie recipe. I just made it for my colleagues in the office last week… you treat them to something nice for their birthday