Fudgy Guinness Stout Brownies with Dark Chocolate Ganache Recipe

Faith Gorsky · anediblemosaic.com · 2024 · 16 servings

Against 1,221 brownie recipes

More cocoa than 96% of recipes and no chocolate, unlike 83%.

How it compares

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

More cocoa than 96% of recipes: 112% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 18%, about 6 times as much.
No chocolate at all, where 83% of recipes use some (most of those 111 to 250% of the flour weight).
More sugar than 95% of recipes: 488% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 224%, about twice as much.
More fat than 87% of recipes: 227% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 136%.

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

3/4 cup Guinness stout≈ 178 g
10 tablespoons unsalted butter (melted)≈ 142 g
3/4 cup honey≈ 255 g
4 tablespoons sugar≈ 50 g
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
2 large eggs≈ 100 g
70 grams unsweetened natural cocoa powder (not Dutch-processed (70 grams of cocoa powder is about 3/4 cup + 2 tablespoons))70 g
1/4 teaspoon salt (slightly heaping 1/4 teaspoon)≈ 1.5 g
1/2 cup all-purpose flour≈ 63 g

Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.

flour 63 gbatter 863 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.