Will You Marry Me Brownies

theviewfromgreatisland.com · 2019

Against 1,221 brownie recipes

More cocoa than 83% 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 cocoa than 83% of recipes: 57% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 18%, about 3 times as much.
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.

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

4 large eggs (room temperature)≈ 200 g
1 and 1/4 cups cocoa powder (I used a combination of regular and Dutched (Hershey's Special Dark))≈ 108 g
1 tsp salt≈ 6 g
1 tsp baking powder≈ 4.6 g
1 tsp espresso powder≈ 2.4 g
1 Tbsp vanilla extract≈ 13 g
2 sticks (1 cup unsalted butter)≈ 226 g
2 and 1/4 cups granulated sugar≈ 450 g
1 and 1/2 cups all purpose flour≈ 188 g
2 cups a 12 ounce bag semi sweet chocolate chips≈ 340 g

flour 188 gbatter 1537 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.