Ultimate Gooey Brownies

Kim Lange · thebakingchocolatess.com · 2021 · 12 Servings

Against 1,221 brownie recipes

More fat than 84% of recipes and more salt than 82%.

How it compares

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

More fat than 84% of recipes: 211% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 136%.
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.
More sugar than 78% of recipes: 320% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 224%.
Cocoa in the middle half of recipes: 46% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 18%.

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

3/4 cup all-purpose flour≈ 94 g
1/2 teaspoon salt≈ 3 g
1/2 cup unsweetened Dutch-processed cocoa powder (like Hershey's Special Dark)≈ 43 g
3/4 cup unsalted butter (12 tablespoons)≈ 170 g
2 Tablespoons canola oil (or vegetable oil)≈ 27 g
1 1/2 cups sugar (divided (1/2 cup, 1 cup))≈ 300 g
1 teaspoon vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
2 large eggs, plus 1 egg yolk≈ 100 g
2/3 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips≈ 113 g
Add-ins: 1/2 cup to 1 cup of m&m's (nuts or roughly chopped cookies)≈ 119 g

flour 94 gbatter 973 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.