Fudgy Olive Oil Brownies (Dairy Free!)

Sonja Overhiser · acouplecooks.com · 2024 · 16

Against 1,221 brownie recipes

More chocolate than 98% of recipes and more sugar than 98%.

How it compares

Against the typical pan: the median of 1221 brownie recipes, per 100 g of flour.

More chocolate than 98% of recipes: 543% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 150%, about 3.5 times as much.
More sugar than 98% of recipes: 671% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 224%, about 3 times as much.
More egg than 97% of recipes: 320% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 125%, about 2.5 times as much.
More salt than 98% of recipes: 6.4% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.2%, about 5.5 times as much.

Percentile on each ingredient. Shaded ring: the middle half of recipes.

1/4 cup Dutch process cocoa powder≈ 22 g
1/4 cup all purpose flour (or almond flour, for gluten-free)≈ 31 g
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt≈ 2 g
1/4 cup olive oil≈ 55 g
1/3 cup creamy peanut butter (or other nut or sunflower butter)≈ 86 g
1 cup dark chocolate chips* plus one handful, divided (we like Guittard 63%)≈ 170 g
1/2 cup granulated sugar≈ 100 g
1/2 cup brown sugar, packed≈ 110 g
2 eggs≈ 100 g
1 teaspoon vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g

flour 31 gbatter 680 g

≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.

Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 1221 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.

Nearest by baker's percentages: chocolate, cocoa, fat, sugar, egg, leavening, salt.