Small Batch Brownies – the easiest recipe that makes just three perfect brownies in a bread pan. Check out the pace-by-pace take to see only how simple they truly are!
Looking for more than small-scale batch desserts? Try my microwave Chocolate Mug Cake or my recipe for one Chocolate Chip Cookie!
One of My Favorite Recipes!
These uncomplicated brownies are amazingly chocolatey, deliciously rich, perfectly sweetened too they have the best fudgy texture.
I don’t actually tending to acknowledge how much I make this recipe.
It genuinely is i of my favorite recipes on this blog as well as one of the those that I brand almost oft! It’s a weekend get-to (or mid-calendar week pick me up) about here.
It’second just pantry staples meeting to brand i of the best desserts always, too it entirely takes minutes to make!
It’second nice that it doesn’t make a large batch and then we finish them off inward what seems similar the blink of an middle, and so at that place aren’t whatsoever left to tempt me for breakfast the side by side day.
You merely can’t become wrong amongst a brownie recipe as tardily as this! And who tin can resist that explosion of chocolate flavor inward every bite?
And if y'all are looking to make the about decadent brownies – add together the optional chocolate chips!
Ingredients Needed
Only vi Ingredients needed to make small batch brownies!
- Salted butter: ane/iv cup.
- Granulated sugar: ane/ii cup.
- Egg: Just one large.
- Vanilla extract: i/2 tsp.
- All-role flour: one/4 loving cup (I like to role unbleached but bleached is fine besides).
- Unsweetened cocoa pulverisation: three Tbsp.
- Chocolate chips (optional): i/iv loving cup regular size or iii Tbsp minis.
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Can I Use Unsalted Butter?
Yes unsalted butter works slap-up besides (I but went with salted to go on that ingredients listing at a minimum). Just add together ane/8 tsp common salt along alongside the saccharide if using unsalted.
How to Make a Small Batch of Brownies
- Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Spray a eight by 4-inch staff of life pan (don’t use a 9 past 5 or they’ll live besides sparse) amongst non-stick baking spray.
- Place butter inwards a microwave safe bowl and oestrus in microwave until melted, almost xxx+ seconds. Let cool slightly spell you measure out other ingredients.
- Mix inward carbohydrate, and then mix in egg together with vanilla extract.
- Add flour together with cocoa pulverization in addition to mix simply until combined, if using chocolate chips mix inwards once flour too cocoa are nearly blended inward.
- Pour into prepared baking dish too spread into an fifty-fifty layer.
- Bake inwards preheated oven until set, near 19 – 23 minutes.
Looking to make a Larger Batch?
If yous need more than similar 12 servings then brand my measure brownie recipe.
Possible Variations
- Add chocolate chips or peanut butter chips.
- Try it alongside chopped walnuts or pecans.
- Make it extra chocolatey, go alongside the extra total of cocoa listed inwards the recipe.
- Add kokosnoot.
- Finish amongst marshmallows (allow cool about 20 minutes then tiptop alongside marshmallows in addition to toast but quickly under the broiler).
- Serve amongst caramel sauce or powdered saccharide.
- Finish alongside water ice cream and hot fudge sauce for an over the meridian celebration dessert.
More Decadent Chocolate Desserts to Try
- Chocolate Cake alongside Chocolate Buttercream Frosting
- Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
- Cookie Dough (three Ways!)
- Chocolate Mousse
- Flourless Chocolate Cake
Small Batch Brownies
Ingredients
- ane/4 cup (56g) salted butter, cut into iv pieces
- one/ii cup (100g) granulated sugar
- 1 big egg
- i/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/iv cup (36g) all-use flour* (scoop together with grade to measure)
- three Tbsp (18g) unsweetened cocoa powder
- one/four loving cup (42g) chocolate bit or iii Tbsp mini chocolate chips**
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Spray a 8 by iv-inch bread pan*** amongst not-stick cooking spray (or grease amongst about butter).
- Place butter inwards a microwave safe bowl, embrace together with oestrus in microwave until melted, about xxx+ seconds. Let cool slightly spell measure out remaining ingredients.
- Mix inward saccharide, then mix inwards egg too vanilla extract.
- Add flour and cocoa pulverisation as well as mix simply until combined, if adding chocolate chips and then add together them once dry ingredients are nearly blended inward.
- Pour into prepared baking dish as well as spread into an fifty-fifty layer. Bake inward preheated oven until fix, about nineteen - 23 minutes.
- Let cool most fifteen - twenty minutes earlier cut too serving.
Notes
- *For an intensely chocolatey brownie, function one/iv cup cocoa powder as well as 3 Tbsp flour.
- **Semi-sweet or milk chocolate chips tin live used depending on season preference. These are not included inwards nutrition gauge equally they are optional.
- ***Don't use a 9 by five-inch loaf pan or brownies will live as well sparse.
- Be careful non to over-mix batter or brownies might live cakey.
Amount Per Serving
Calories 337
Calories from Fat 162
% Daily Value*