When I was looking for some brownie variations, I came across this cocoa brownies at Cafe Delights. Usually we melt butter and chocolate and use in brownies, but this recipe is different. It uses cocoa powder. It also has a little bit of oil in the recipe which gives the fudge texture to the brownies. I converted the recipe to eggless and halved the recipe and baked a small batch. And all the slices were shared with the guys in our office. I didn’t even show it to Sruti.
As mentioned in my last post, getting a perfect slice from a brownie is easy. Just refrigerate it until firm and then slice it with a serrated knife to get perfect squares. And then let it come back to room temperature before serving. You don’t want to serve firm brownies to your kids or friends. You can even warm it up in MW oven and serve it with a sauce or a scoop of icecream. As I was experimenting with the recipe, I kept it simple. Next time I will be adding some fillings and toppings. I am even planning for a video. I was so happy with the result. The brownies were nice, slightly dense and slightly fudgy.
Recipe Adapted From CafeDelights
Cup Used 200 ml
Ingredients:
Butter, Melted – 1/2 cup / 100 gm
Refined Oil – 1 tbs
Sugar – 1 cup / 200 gm
Milk – 1/2 cup / 100 ml
Vanilla Extract – 1 tsp
All Purpose Flour / Maida – 1 cup / 130 gm
Cocoa Powder – 1/2 cup / 50 gm
Baking Powder – 1/3 tsp
Salt – 1/4 tsp
Procedure:
Preheat oven to 180°C.
Grease and line an 8″ by 8″ square tin with paper coming upto the rim. It will be easier to lift the brownie out of the tin.
In a bowl mix together sugar, melted butter and oil and whisk until well combined.
Add milk and vanilla and whisk until sugar starts melting.
Add in the flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt and whisk until the batter is nice and thick.
Transfer to the tin and smooth the top.
Bake in the preheated oven for 20 – 25 minutes.
Allow it to cool completely.
Cover with cling and refrigerate for 2 hours.
Remove the brownie from the tin, slice it up with a serrated knife to get perfect squares.
Allow it to come back to room temperature before serving.
Or MW until warm and serve it with a scoop of icecream.
Eggless Cocoa Brownies Recipe
Ingredients
- 100 gm Butter – 1/2 cup Melted –
- Refined Oil – 1 tbs
- 200 gn Sugar – 1 cup
- 100 ml Milk-1/2 cup
- Vanilla Extract – 1 tsp
- 130 gm All Purpose Flour / Maida – 1 cup
- Baking Powder – 1/3 tsp
- Salt – 1/4 tsp
- 50 gm Cocoa Powder – 1/2 cup
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180°C.
- Grease and line an 8″ by 8″ square tin with paper coming upto the rim. It will be easier to lift the brownie out of the tin.
- In a bowl mix together sugar, melted butter and oil and whisk until well combined.
- Add milk and vanilla and whisk until sugar starts melting.
- Add in the flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt and whisk until the batter is nice and thick.
- Transfer to the tin and smooth the top.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 20 – 25 minutes.
- Allow it to cool completely.
- Cover with cling and refrigerate for 2 hours.
- Remove the brownie from the tin, slice it up with a serrated knife to get perfect squares.
- Allow it to come back to room temperature before serving.
- Or MW until warm and serve it with a scoop of icecream.
You have not mentioned how much cocoa is needed.
Rectified. Thank you so much.
Love the color and texture of your brownies. They look so tempting.
The color and the texture look very appealing.
delicious looking brownies. Perfect.
Looks very inviting gayathri!..hope Shruti didn’t read this post..:)..else you will end up baking it again..
Hahaha Valli, she saw the photos on FB and was asking me about it. She was so upset when she came to know about it and yeah, she is asking me to bake another batch..
This turned outt soo soo perfect That i am hogging onto it since 2 days
wow gayathri, looks perfect!
Ma’am do u have a brownie recipe with eggs??
No Oleen..
Thanx a lot for the recipe its yummmmm
My brownies did not turn out well, it was sticking to the butter paper and they were crumbling. I kept it in the oven for 45 min. Please advice on how to improve.
Check whether the measurements of ingredients are perfect. Any problem with that, your result will not be good.
Hello maam,
Can I use only oil instead of butter?
Yes, you can. But it will be very tender.
Made the brownies as per the recipe with butter . Came out delicious. Thank u so much .
Hello..u didn’t mention cocoa powder in ingredients list..
I have mentioned 1/2 cup. Please check.
Maam, is it half cup melted butter or take cup butter and then melt it.
You can do it anyhow.
Hi, mam can I make this with wheat flour or oats ?
You can substitute maida with 110 gm of wheat flour and make this recipe. Or you can use 1/3rd oats flour and 2/3rd wheat flour and try.
Which rack to keep and which rods to keep on in otg
Always middle rack
Would it cause an issue if quantity of sugar was reduced?
A slight decrease won’t cause a drastic change. But don’t reduce much.
Ma’am I tried this recipe today and it turned out all perfect but it was overly sweet. Ma’am I think the proportions of sugar and flour seem incorrect . Plse guide. The texture was amazing.
It is common to use more sugar in brownies to get that crisp crust. If you reduce sugar, it might taste just like a chocolate cake. But you can definitely reduce a bit of sugar if you prefer.
Hi Gayathri…thanks for the eggless recipe..can sugar too be substituted say like with jaggerry powder or white sugar only is required?
Yes, you can substitute white sugar with jaggery or brown sugar. Same quantity.
Can we use powdered suger
Yes, you can.
Mam I tried out this recipe.It was a big hit. I would like to try a bigger batch say two or three times more for a get together.What could the baking time be
Thank you so much for trying it out. When you increase quantity, you also increase the pan size accordingly. So the time might go up by 5 or 10 minutes. Not more than that.
Mam can we do the skewer test to check
Yes, if you are keeping the batter plain, skewer test works. If you add chocolate or choco chips in the batter, it won’t help.
Hi, thank you for sharing the recipe .is Hershey’s Coco powder goes well for this recipe.please .
Yes, it goes well.
Mam how to measure half of 1/3 tsp ..I want to mk half rec
Take a little bit less in 1/2 tsp.