Black Forest Brownie Cake
Sanjana Feasts · sanjanafeasts.co.uk · 2023 · 10
Against 1,221 brownie recipes
Less sugar than 99% of recipes and less fat than 95%.
How it compares
Against the typical pan: the median of 1221 brownie recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less sugar than 99% of recipes: 63% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 224%, under a third as much.
- Less fat than 95% of recipes: 38% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 136%, under a third as much.
- No egg at all, where 93% of recipes use some (most of those 100 to 167% of the flour weight).
- More leavening than 91% of recipes: 5% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0%.
Ingredients (17)
- 240 g self-raising cake flour240 g
- 50 g unsweetened cocoa powder50 g
- 150 g soft light brown sugar150 g
- 2 tsp cornflour≈ 5 g
- 1/4 tsp salt≈ 1.5 g
- 100 g dark chocolate, broken into small pieces100 g
- 200 ml boiling hot water≈ 200 g
- 250 ml buttermilk≈ 258 g
- 100 ml oil≈ 92 g
- 2 tsp vanilla extract≈ 8 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 300 g Morello cherry preserve, or any sour cherry preserve/jam, stirred to loosen300 g
- 500 ml double cream, cold≈ 503 g
- 1 tbsp icing sugar≈ 8 g
- 220 g tin pitted cherries, reserve 125ml of the juice if not using Kirsch220 g
- 125 ml Kirsch or cherry juice≈ 125 g
- Chocolate shardsn/a
- Icing sugarn/a
flour 240 gbatter 1106 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. Leavening includes the baking powder in the self-rising flour, counted as 5% of its weight.
- Chocolate42% · 18th percentile · median 150%
- Cocoa21% · 54th percentile · median 18%
- Fat38% · 5th percentile · median 136%
- Sugar63% · 1st percentile · median 224%
- Egg0% · 3rd percentile · median 125%
- Leavening5% · 93rd percentile · median 0%
- Salt0.6% · 43rd percentile · median 1.2%
Oven
- Temperature
- 325°F / 165°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 35 to 40 minutes
- median 30 minutes
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