Passover Brownies

leitesculinaria.com · 2012 · 8 to 12 servings

Against 1,221 brownie recipes

Less fat than 94% of recipes and less sugar than 89%.

How it compares

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

Less fat than 94% of recipes: 40% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 136%, under a third as much.
Less sugar than 89% of recipes: 113% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 224%, about half as much.
Less egg than 87% of recipes: 56% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 125%, about half as much.
No cocoa at all, where 62% of recipes use some (most of those 20 to 59% of the flour weight).

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

3/4 cup matzo cake meal or matzo meal ((See FAQs above))≈ 178 g
1 cup granulated sugar≈ 200 g
1 teaspoon vanilla extract ( or seeds from 1/4 vanilla bean)≈ 4.2 g
5 ounces bittersweet chocolate142 g
5 tablespoons (2 1/2 oz) unsalted butter (plus more for the pan )≈ 71 g
2 large eggs≈ 100 g
1/4 cup brandy or chocolate liqueur≈ 43 g
1/4 to 1/2 cup roughly chopped walnuts≈ 45 g
1/4 to 1/2 cup semisweet or bittersweet chocolate chips or chopped chocolate ((optional))≈ 60 g

flour 178 gbatter 842 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.