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–RECIPES–
GOOD
▪170g or 1.5 sticks unsalted butter
▪225g/8oz 70% chocolate
▪175g or 3/4c granulated sugar
▪5g or 1tsp kosher salt
▪3 eggs, whisked
▪200g or 1 1/4c flour

Melt butter on low in large sauce pot. Add chocolate and stir to melt. Add sugar & stir well. Off heat, add eggs and stir well. Add salt and flour. Stir until well combined. Load into a greased 8”x8”/20x20cm pan. Bake at 350F/175C for 24-26mi rotating halfway through.


BETTER
▪115g/1 stick butter
▪225g/8oz 70% cacao chocolate
▪3 eggs
▪50g or 1/4c buttermilk
▪60g or 1/4c olive oil
▪8g or 1/2Tbsp vanilla
▪100g or 1c brown sugar
▪75g or 1/3c granulated sugar
▪75g or 3/4c cocoa powder
▪100g or 3/4c flour
▪5g or 1tsp kosher salt

Melt butter on low in a large sauce pot. Stir in chocolate and remove from heat.

In a separate bowl, whisk together egg, buttermilk, oil, vanilla. Add sugars, whisk well. Add choco butter to sugar-egg mixture and stir.

In a separate bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa powder, and salt. Fold into wet mixture until well combined. Load into greased 8×8 or 20×20 and bake at 350F/175C for 24-26 min, rotating halfway through.


BEST
▪1 stick butter/115g
▪225g/8oz chocolate + extra for topping (or cacao nibs)
▪100g or 1c brown sugar
▪75g or 1/3c white sugar
▪75g or 3/4c cocoa powder
▪100g or 3/4c flour
▪3 eggs (cold)
▪5g/1Tbsp espresso/instant coffee
▪5g or 1tsp kosher salt
▪60g or 1/4c olive oil
▪8g or 1/2Tbsp vanilla
▪50g or 1/4c buttermilk

Brown the butter in a small saucepan preheated on high. When hot, add butter and stir constantly, scraping up solids at the bottom. When color is dark and golden, remove from heat. Off heat, stir in espresso and chocolate to melt.

In mixer, whisk eggs and sugars on medium high until thick and fluffy – takes several minutes. When done, the color should have lightened significantly. With mixer on low, add in oil, vanilla, buttermilk. Once incorporated, stream in chocolate-butter

In a separate bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa, salt. With mixer on low, add flour/cocoa mixture to wet ingredients. Use a spatula to scrape sides and to finish incorporating flour. Transfer mixture to prepared 8×8. Sprinkle with chopped chocolate chunks (or cacao). Cover and refrigerate for 2-24 hours to hydrate.

Sprinkle with flaky salt. Bake at 350F/175C for 24-26 min, rotating halfway through. Rest on counter to room temp, then refrigerate until cool.


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CHAPTERS:
0:00 Intro
0:15 Good, 6 ingredient brownies
3:22 MIxing and baking better brownies
5:57 counteracting the brownies with AG1 (ad)
7:00 Better brownies are done
7:50 Best fudgy brownies
12:23 Let’s eat this thing

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27 Comments

  1. If you cool the best brownies and then cook them for the same time at the same temp aren't you just fundamentally not baking it as much? Especially the middle?

  2. I've always been fascinated by the idea that adding espresso 'enhances' chocolate flavors. I've never found it to do that, it only adds coffee flavor which I think is just bad.

  3. I am here for the 5.23 mark.

    Bri you should make a video that collects all those moments that you slip into your videos tasting stuff like that. Your comedy bits are part of the reason im a die hard fan.

  4. I love your channel and try to make everything! However: I tried making the "best" brownies and ran into an issue. In the recipe it looked like the brownies went straight from the fridge into the oven. I made the batter, hydrated for two hours in the fridge, straight to a preheated oven, and after 25 minutes the brownies were mostly uncooked. I baked them a second time for another 30 minutes and that fixed that but now they were cakey. How do we go from hydrated to oven? Should I leave it out until it's at room temp first? Do we really need to hydrate in a fridge?

  5. Okay since brownies are not one of the popular desserts here and my friend made them for me and my brother once and i fell in love i'm craving these like crazy. So wish me luck!

  6. Hey, Brian!

    How are you?
    I ´am a great fan of yor channel! Learned to do pizza with you : D

    About the brownie. It´s possible to work with chocolate powder in place of the bar in this receipe?

    Thank ´s!

  7. I plan on making the best one tomorrow (minus some of the cooling, unfortunately) for a special occasion, but I’ll also add some Mexican hot chocolate flavors and also using bread flour to make them chewier

  8. I made the Best version and followed the ingredients and instructions. The thing is when I pulled it out of the fridge it was really hard. It tasted more like a chocolate truffle than brownies. Th only difference is I used one of those small brownie bites tin vs 8×8 pan. I baked it for 12 min due to the pan size. I wonder if this wasn’t meant for the bite size pan…

  9. the flacky salt was way too much salt for my european tounge but rest is insane 🙂

  10. I gotta say Friend I tried the second variation and they came out with a weird gritty crumbly texture. Any ideas for a fix?

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