How To Make Chocolate Frosted Brownies
Indulge in the rich goodness of these chocolate frosted brownies. They’re baked with a moist and chewy base and topped with a fluffy chocolate frosting.
Serves:
Ingredients
- ½cupunsalted butter,diced into 1-tbsp pieces
- 2ozunsweetened chocolate,chopped
- 4ozsemi sweet chocolate,chopped
- ¾cupgranulated sugar
- ½cuplight brown sugar,packed
- ½tspsea salt,fine
- 2large eggs
- 1large egg yolk
- 2tspvanilla extract
- ½cupall purpose flour
For Frosting:
- 1½cupspowdered sugar
- 3½tbspunsweetened cocoa powder,sifted
- ¼cupsalted butter,softened
- 3tbsphalf and half
- ½tspvanilla extract
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Butter an 8×8-inch baking dish, line with two sheets of parchment paper while leaving a 2-inch overhang on all sides. Butter parchment paper.
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Add butter, unsweetened chocolate, and semi-sweet chocolate to a large microwave-safe mixing bowl.
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Heat in microwave in 20-second intervals, stirring well between intervals until melted and smooth. Let cool slightly.
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Mix in granulated sugar, brown sugar, and salt.
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Mix in eggs one at a time, then blend in egg yolk and vanilla. Mix in flour.
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Pour batter into the prepared baking dish and spread into an even layer. Bake in preheated oven for 28 to 33 minutes until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out with crumbs.
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Remove from oven and cool completely on a wire rack. (Cover the pan with plastic wrap about halfway through the cooling so they don’t dry at all).
Frosting:
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In a medium mixing bowl, using an electric hand mixer blend together powdered sugar, cocoa powder, butter, half and half, and vanilla.
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Add in a little more half and half, 1 teaspoon at a time, to thin if needed. Mix until frosting is slightly fluffy.
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Spread over cooled brownies then lift brownies out using parchment overhang.
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Cut into squares and store in an airtight container.
Nutrition
- Calories: 353.52kcal
- Fat: 18.68g
- Saturated Fat: 11.29g
- Trans Fat: 0.47g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 5.36g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.86g
- Carbohydrates: 46.05g
- Fiber: 2.07g
- Sugar: 38.56g
- Protein: 3.43g
- Cholesterol: 78.36mg
- Sodium: 128.69mg
- Calcium: 29.86mg
- Potassium: 134.51mg
- Iron: 1.83mg
- Vitamin A: 119.41µg
- Vitamin C: 0.03mg
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