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Best fudgy cocoa brownies

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Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes
Total Time: 30 minutes

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup unsalted butter, melted
  • 1 tablespoon cooking oil, (olive oil or coconut oil are fine)
  • 1 1/8 cup superfine sugar, (caster sugar or white granulated sugar)*
  • 2 large eggs
  • 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
  • 1/2 cup all purpose (or plain) flour
  • 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt

Instructions

  • Preheat your oven to 175° C | 350° F before moving to the nextstep.
  • Another must-to-do thing is greasing your 8-inch square baking pan using a cooking oil spray, and then line with parchment paper.
  • Use a medium-sized bowl to whisk well the melted butter, sugar ,oil for about a minute. Add vanilla and eggs and beat all together for another minute until you get lighter in color mixture.
  • Sift in the dry ingredients you have; the flour, cocoa powder as well as salt before folding them gently into the mixture you made. When the dry ingredients are well-combined with the wet ingredients stop beating because over-beating will incorporate too much air into your brownies hence changes their texture.
  • Pour the batter into the already greased baking pan. Then immediately smooth the top. You can top it chocolate chips or chocolate chunks if you like that.
  • Bake in preheated oven for 20 to 25 minutes. You can know that the brownies are baked when their center doesn’t jiggle knowing that the brownies will continue to bake out of the oven in the hot pan.
  • When you remove the baking pan from the oven let the brownies cool in the pan for a few minutes before slicing into brownies.

Notes

 
  • If caster sugar is not available, you can use regular white granulated sugar. Use half light brown and half white sugar for fudgier brownies.
Tips And Tricks:
  • Whisk sugar and butter well.
  • Beat eggs very well for 1 minute. This will help you maintain a crackly top on the brownies.
  • After adding the cocoa powder and flour, don’t overbeat the brownies batter. It will add air in the batter that gives you the cake like the texture brownie. Cakey is good but not in this recipe friends.
  • Don’t overbake the brownies; I bake them for 21:30 minutes exactly. You can bake more if you want, but I do not recommend it if you like fudgiest brownies. Do you remember? I promised to give you fudgiest brownies.
  • I baked the brownies on the top baking shelf of the oven. I found that if you cook on the middle shelf, it will bake brownies a little bit faster and dry them out.
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