The Best Brownies
Amanda Rettke--iambaker.net · iambaker.net · 2018 · 9 people
Against 1,221 brownie recipes
Less fat than 96% of recipes and less sugar than 87%.
How it compares
Against the typical pan: the median of 1221 brownie recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less fat than 96% of recipes: 26% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 136%, under a third as much.
- Less sugar than 87% of recipes: 120% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 224%, about half as much.
- No cocoa at all, where 62% of recipes use some (most of those 20 to 59% of the flour weight).
- 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.
Ingredients (10)
- ¾ cup (150 g) granulated sugar150 g
- 3 tablespoons (32.6 g) unsalted butter33 g
- 3 tablespoons coffee≈ 44 g
- 1 ½ cups (265 g) chocolate morsels or chunks, (semi-sweet)265 g
- 2 large eggs, (room temperature)≈ 100 g
- 1 teaspoon vanilla≈ 4.2 g
- 1 cup (125 g) all-purpose flour125 g
- ½ teaspoon baking soda≈ 3 g
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt≈ 4 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- ¼ cup chocolate chunks, (for sprinkling on top)≈ 40 g
flour 125 gbatter 728 g
≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.
Baker's percentages
Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 1221 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.
- Chocolate212% · 71st percentile · median 150%
- Cocoa0% · 19th percentile · median 18%
- Fat26% · 4th percentile · median 136%
- Sugar120% · 12th percentile · median 224%
- Egg80% · 20th percentile · median 125%
- Leavening2.4% · 75th percentile · median 0%
- Salt3.2% · 85th percentile · median 1.2%
Oven
- Temperature
- 325°F / 165°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 20 to 25 minutes
- median 30 minutes
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