The Perfect Chewy Brownie Recipe

so if you love brownies you already know that there are many different types of brownies there is the fudgy brownie like my best ever fudgy brownies there is my crinkle top brownies that have that lovely kind of shine on the top there's also my better zan box brownies which are just homemade from scratch better than box brownies but there's also a chewy brownie now i'm going to show you how you can make a chewy brownie today using this one simple technique and you can use this to make any brownie batter a chewy one [Music] [Applause] first off we're going to mix together all our wet ingredients and then after that comes my secret tip into my nice big bowl i'm going to add in here some melted butter a little bit of vegetable oil or any flavorless oil that you have canola oil sunflower oil whatever brown sugar i like to use dark brown sugar because it gives you more of a caramel flavor white sugar four whole eggs and a generous splash of vanilla extract so my secret weapon to make the chewiest brownie an electric mixer now you can use stand mixer i'm using a hand mixer and here's what we're gonna do put it into your mix on a high speed and let it just beat for around five minutes or so you want this mix to get really thick pale in color and nice and bubbly what we're going for here is a nice thick texture so now if you're wondering can you do this by hand yes you can but without the power of an electric mixer it's going to be hard to get that mix really lovely and thick and that's what makes it chewy so just try and get it as thick as you can so now while i'm beating these i have time to tell you that this recipe is on biggerbolderbaking.com along with all of my other recipes my brownie recipes my cookies my cakes whatever you're looking for gemma what's your favorite type of brownie i think my favorite type of brownie is my crinkle top brownies i love that because it's a little bit of everything it's it's kind of uh fudgy it is a little bit chewy and it has that lovely shiny top that i just love like i know when i see a brownie that looks like that i'm gonna love it but you know what though that i haven't mentioned yet and i should have is brownie brittle brownie brittle is amazing it's a really thin brownie batter you bake it up nice and crisp and you end up with these like brownie crisps i've also got a recipe for that and that is so good so perfect that's been five or six minutes or so this is nice and thick fantastic now i'm going to set my mixer aside bring in my sieve and into my sieve i'm going to add in my cocoa powder now for brownies it's really important to use unsweetened cocoa powder don't use hot chocolate powder don't use sweetened cocoa powder just a good quality unsweetened cocoa powder then we're going to add in some plain flour and of course very important in brownies is salt chocolate and salt are best friends they go everywhere together and they should be in your brownies so then just sift these ingredients together you'll notice that i always sift cocoa powder because it can be lumpy and if you don't sift out those lumps it's very hard to get them out of your batter perfect i'm just gonna go in with the whisk and combine the batter look at that it's like chocolate lava absolutely gorgeous so just before it comes together i'm going to toss in my chocolate chunks so what i do for my chocolate chunks here i don't buy chocolate chips in the store i get a big bar of bittersweet chocolate and i chop it all up so you end up with big bits of chocolate you end up with small bits it just gives you lovely flavor texture and gives your brownies a really nice look it also melts really well and chocolate chips don't always melt really well so that's why i like to use a bar of chocolate so here i have an 8x8 brownie pan this is a square little pan these are great for making brownies 9x9 also will work well i have it lined with parchment paper and i'm just going to go ahead and pour in my batter oh my gosh this bowl is really heavy and such a thick batter but all of the air we got in here all of the bubbles all of the volume that's what's going to give us a cakier chewier brownie so what i did do is i held back a little bit of chocolate chunks i'm just going to sprinkle them over the top just so you also have some melty chocolate on top when they're coming out of the oven [Music] beautiful bake at 350 degrees fahrenheit or 180 degrees celsius for roughly 45 to 50 minutes the secret to baking brownies perfectly is you don't over bake them they still want to be a little bit soft in the middle so you get that nice fudginess so our brownies look and smell amazing see that they're kind of crinkly on top and you can see that kind of like the reason that we whipped up the ingredients so much it creates this kind of like meringue effect and that's what gives us a chewy meringue you can see the results of that on tops of the brownies i'm going to go and cut this while it's still warm because why not brownies are the best when they're warm and i can hear my knife just like the crinkle as it cuts through the top of the brownie and i can feel under the inside that it's like really soft so let's have a little look to see if we ended up with the perfect chewy cakey brownie there we go look at that gorgeous so you can see it's not a typical fudgy gooey brownie it is like cakier because we've whipped up all of those ingredients it still is fudgy in the middle but it has a slightly different result and it's that bit chewier so i'm gonna try one right now [Music] oh my gosh i love this it's kind of like airy and has all these lovely bubbles in it and it feels kind of chewy especially when you get those lovely outside pieces so whether you like a chewy brownie fudgy box brownie i've got a recipe for you so check out all my other videos