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Chocolate Brownie Cake
Soft and cakelike on the inside, yet with a delightfully chewy crust on top, this chocolate brownie cake is excellent for those who like a cakey brownie recipe. It’s great served a little warm with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream.
Not only is this the very first recipe I’ve published on my blog, but this is also the first brownie recipe I ever baked from scratch. It came from Betty Crocker’s Cooking Basics: Learning to Cook with Confidence
, which is also where I learned to make hard cooked eggs and oven baked chicken breasts many years ago!
If you’d like to make this chocolate brownie cake a bit fancy, let the it cool completely, then flip it upside down so that the smooth side is facing up. Lay a doily or some other kind of pattern over the brownie cake, then put some powdered sugar into a mesh strainer and tap it gently over the design. Carefully lift away the doily. Voila! A lovely decoration for your brownie cake!
If cakey isn’t your style (or your mood), try these velvety, fudgy Ultimate Deep Dish Brownies!
Chocolate Brownie Cake
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup butter 1 1/2 sticks, melted
- 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 3 eggs
Instructions
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Preheat the oven to 350. Prepare a pan by lining it with parchment or foil.
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Mix sugar, flour, butter, cocoa, vanilla, salt, and eggs in a medium bowl with spoon or whisk. Pour into pan and smooth out the top.
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Bake 30 to 40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
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Cool cake 10 minutes, then remove from pan and place on a wire cooling rack. Or you can leave the cake in the pan.
Ashley (QLCC)
My two favorite desserts in one!
Katie
Exactly! It doesn’t get any better than cake plus brownie.
heather @french press
it really is hard to beat a brownie in any form 🙂 looks delicious
Katie
Thank you! I do love brownies. 🙂
Kacey @ The Cookie Writer
Homemade brownies are the way to go! I just posted my recipe and honestly, they are so easy there is no reason to buy the box mix!
Katie
That’s just what I think, too. I spent years using boxed mixes, and then when I made them from scratch, I thought, “Why didn’t I do this earlier?”
Levan @ MyWifeMakes.com
Nothing beats a good old fashioned Chocolate Brownie Cake! Amazing stuff — I could do with this dessert after a hefty dinner! YUM!
Katie
A little bit of sweet to round off the savory!
Kim Beaulieu
This is all the best things in the world coming together for one amazing dish. Love it.
John
What size pan? 8×8?
Katie Moseman
I baked this in a 9-inch round pan. It would work in an 8 by 8 square pan, also.