Cocoa Powder Brownies
sugarspunrun.com · 2026 · 16 servings
Against 1,221 brownie recipes
More cocoa than 88% of recipes and more sugar than 91%.
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 91% of recipes: 400% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 224%.
Ingredients (9)
- 1 ¼ cups granulated sugar≈ 250 g
- 2 large eggs≈ 100 g
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
- ½ cup unsalted butter (cut into 8 pieces)≈ 114 g
- ½ cup natural cocoa powder≈ 43 g
- ¼ teaspoon espresso powder (optional)≈ 0.6 g
- ½ cups all-purpose flour≈ 63 g
- ¼ rounded teaspoon table salt ((or fine sea salt))≈ 1.5 g
- ½ cup mini chocolate chips (optional )≈ 85 g
flour 63 gbatter 660 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.
- Chocolate136% · 46th percentile · median 150%
- Cocoa69% · 89th percentile · median 18%
- Fat182% · 74th percentile · median 136%
- Sugar400% · 92nd percentile · median 224%
- Egg160% · 71st percentile · median 125%
- Leavening0% · 30th percentile · median 0%
- Salt2.4% · 75th percentile · median 1.2%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 23 minutes
- median 30 minutes
Keep exploring
Recipes most like this one
Nearest by baker's percentages: chocolate, cocoa, fat, sugar, egg, leavening, salt.
Do something with it
Or browse all 1221 brownie recipes.