Gluten-free Brownies - Fudgy version


Extra chocolaty and sweet sin of a cake. A classical recipe for brownies in their more moist and less fudgy version

Ingredients:

400 g bitter-sweet chocolate
250 g unsalted butter
200 g granulated sugar
7 eggs
75 g of cocoa powder (Dutch processed)
1 teaspoon salt
250 g of gluten free flour mix

Step by Step instructions:

1) Preheat the oven for 180 °C.

2) In a steam bath melt 400 g of bitter sweet-chocolate, add 250 g of unsalted butter and mix until combined.

3) Mix in 200 g of granulated sugar until combined. Set aside and let cool for about 5 minutes.

4) One by one mix in 7 eggs.

5) Add 1 teaspoon of salt, 75 g of unsweetened cocoa powder and stir thoroughly.

6) Finally add 250 g of gluten free flour and stir until combined.

7) Pour the dough best into a brownie pan (greased and sprinkled or lined with baking parchment) or a higher baking pan.

8) Bake for about 20 minutes. Regularly check if done by sticking a toothpick or skewer into the brownies. There should be almost no crumbs left on it.

Tips & Tricks:

After two attempts we found out that it is very important not to over bake the brownies! So that they keep their fudginess. So the point is them being done on the surface but almost undone in the middle.
When it comes to the amount of sugar its up to you how sweet you like your sweets. We ourselves prefer less sweetness but still this recipe is not good for a diet. If you like them sweeter you can use 300 – 350 g of granulated sugar. This should not have any impact on the structure of the final Brownies. You could also use some other sweetener like Stevia or honey but that we did not test and we are not sure what it would do to the final structure. In the end the bittersweet chocolate is sweetened already so you should not need any more sugar to be added but again this could and probably would influence the final structure and it would probably be necessary to amend the amounts of the other ingredients as well.
What we will maybe try in the future is brownies without chocolate but using only cocoa powder. This way we can avoid the currently overused “fat from hell” or also known as palm oil. This will of course then have a significant effect of the price of this recipe which still, at least in Czech republic, belongs to a rather more expensive one. 

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