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Try our rich, fudgy white chocolate blondies recipe for an afternoon treat. White chocolate is the key to a gooey texture, alongside two types of soft sugar

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Impress friends and family over the festive season with our stunning black forest meringue tower. This gorgeous Christmas dessert is filled with dark chocolate ganache, boozy cherries and mascarpone cream. Pure indulgence!

Baileys Brownies on hexagonal platters with baubles on the side
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An irresistible brownie laced with Baileys and covered in an extra special layer of dark chocolate fudge

Try our classic chocolate brownies recipe, then check out our vegan brownies, chocolate orange brownies and Oreo brownies.

How to make chocolate brownies... step-by-step video

If you ever wondered how to make best chocolate brownies and what ingredients you going to need to achieve this perfect chewy and gooey result we all love, olive is here to help.

What type of tin do I need to make brownies?

This homemade brownie recipe uses a square tin, but you can use an oblong or even round cake tin provided it is roughly the same size – just keep an eye on the brownies, you may need slightly less or more time than the recipe states.

What is the secret to perfectly fudgy brownies?

We've found that the following help to achieve brownies with a texture which is just about set, but still rich and fudgy in the centre:

  • Use high quality melted chocolate (we think dark works best for flavour but you can use other types) and cocoa powder. Many recipes use just cocoa powder, resulting in a drier texture and less depth of flavour.
  • Using butter rather than oil gives more of a rich, nutty flavour.
  • Adding chocolate chunks to the batter takes these brownies up a notch, creating pockets of gorgeously melty chocolate, as well as the extra chocolate merging into the batter as it bakes.

We have provided some great ideas to make variations on the classic chocolate brownie, too, so you can get creative with your baking.

Best ever chocolate brownies recipe

  • 100g butter
    chopped
  • 200g dark chocolate
    chopped
  • 4 eggs
  • 250g golden caster sugar
  • 100g plain flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 30g cocoa

BROWNIE VARIATIONS

  • 100g white or milk chocolate chunks
    chopped
  • 100g hazelnuts
    toasted, roughly chopped
  • 100g pecans
    toasted, roughly chopped
  • baby marshmallows
    2 handfuls

Nutrition: per serving

  • fat14.7g
  • carbs40.5g
  • fibre0.9g
  • protein4.25g
  • salt0.3g
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Method

  • step 1

    Heat the oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4.

  • step 2

    Line a 22cm square brownie tin with baking parchment. Melt the butter and chocolate together in a microwave or in a bowl set over a pan of simmering water. Cool to room temperature.

    Glass bowl of melted chocolate

  • step 3

    Whisk the eggs and sugar together until the mixture is light and fluffy.

    Whisk whipping mix in a glass bowl

  • step 4

    Fold the chocolate mixture into the egg mixture and sift on the flour, baking powder and cocoa.

    Sieved chocolate powder into bowl of chocolate mix

  • step 5

    Fold this in to give a fudgy batter.

  • step 6

    (To ramp it up, add 100g chopped white or milk chocolate chunks OR 100g toasted, roughly chopped hazelnuts or pecans OR 2 handfuls of baby marshmallows.)

    Chocolate chips being added to chocolate brownie mix

  • step 7

    Bake for 25-30 minutes or until the top is cracked but the middle just set. Cool completely, then lift out of the tin and cut.

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More brownies ideas below:

Vegan brownies

Bake a batch of our decadent vegan chocolate brownies for an indulgent treat. Our unique recipe is super chocolaty so vegan and non-vegan friends and family will all love it!

Vegan Brownies Recipe

Air fryer brownies

Chocolate brownies are made even speedier by baking them in an air fryer. If you want extra flavour, add nuts or dried fruit to the batter.

A pile of chocolate brownies on a chopping board

Oreo brownies

Classic brownies are taken up a few notches with the addition of Oreos, indulgent dark choc chips and cocoa powder.

A baking tray lined with paper and filled with brownies topped with oreos

Crème egg brownies

Chocolate cake + Cadbury's Creme Eggs = HEAVEN. Whip up our chocolate traybake for a special Easter treat, or make it any time of the year (we certainly do)!

Creme Egg Brownie Cake Recipe

Chocolate orange brownies

What could be better than scoffing a Terry's Chocolate Orange? Adding it to a brownie batter, of course! Try our deliciously decadent recipe today.

Chocolate Orange Brownies Recipe

Sweet potato brownies

Sweet potatoes add natural sweetness so you need to use less sugar than a regular brownie recipe. It also makes the texture incredibly fudgy.

Sweet potato brownies

Gluten-free brownies

Our gluten-free recipe is just as rich and fudgy as classic brownies, so no one will miss out.

A wooden board topped with squares of chocolate brownie

Authors

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Janine RatcliffeFood director
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gemma.sarah2396770

question

Can you freeze these and how long for?

RachelS

These brownies were delicious! So gooey! It's easy to over cook brownies, you have to take them out before you think they're ready, before the middle goes solid otherwise they lose their gooey texture. I used dark chocolate orange as that's all there was and it worked so well. Everyone loved them!

janescholes12a

If I use an rectangle tin 7 x 9" do I need extra ingredients? Thanks

olive-magazine

Hi, thanks for your question. Your tin is slightly smaller than the one we use so you won't need extra ingredients. You might need to increase cooking time by about 5 mins or so due to using a smaller tin. We hope this helps. Best wishes, the olive team.

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Disappointed with how these turned out. They are more like a chocolate sponge and don't really taste of much. Managed to make them soft in the middle but won't be making again

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Excellent and easy brownie recipe

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