Best ever chocolate brownies recipe

Orlando Murrin · bbcgoodfood.com · 2025 · Cuts into 16 squares or 32 triangles

Against 1,221 brownie recipes

More chocolate than 89% of recipes and more fat than 85%.

How it compares

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

More chocolate than 89% of recipes: 335% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 150%, about twice as much.
More fat than 85% of recipes: 218% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 136%.
More sugar than 83% of recipes: 324% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 224%.
No salt at all, where 67% of recipes use some (most of those 1.2 to 3.2% of the flour weight).

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

flour 85 gbatter 1020 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.