Brown Butter Brownies

Sarah Fennel · bromabakery.com · 2023 · 9 brownies

Against 1,221 brownie recipes

More cocoa than 88% of recipes and more sugar than 92%.

How it compares

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

More cocoa than 88% of recipes: 69% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 18%, about 4 times as much.
More sugar than 92% of recipes: 410% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 224%.
More salt than 82% of recipes: 3.2% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.2%, about 2.5 times as much.

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

3/4 cup unsalted butter≈ 170 g
3/4 cup Dutch-process cocoa powder≈ 65 g
1 teaspoon vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
1 3/4 cup packed light brown sugar≈ 385 g
3 large eggs≈ 150 g
3/4 cup all-purpose flour≈ 94 g
1/2 teaspoon salt≈ 3 g
1/2 cup semisweet or bittersweet chocolate chips (or chopped chocolate) (optional)≈ 85 g

flour 94 gbatter 956 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.