These Brown Butter Brownies will satisfy even the biggest chocolate lover’s cravings. Brown butter adds a rich, slightly nutty flavor. It makes these fudgy, gooey brownies ultra indulgent!
These fudgy Browned Butter Brownies are so good! This is an easy brownie recipe made with brown butter. They are also incredibly chocolatey and are made with cocoa powder and chocolate chips!
Browning the butter is an extra step but it is so worth it. It makes these brownies over the top delicious!
For more brownie recipes, try my Condensed Milk Brownies, Cookie Dough Brownies and these Tahini Brownies.
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Why We Love This Recipe
- SUPER chocolatey: Cocoa, melted chocolate and chocolate chips. Enough said. Oh and sprinkling flaky sea salt on top intensifies the chocolate flavor!!
- Easy to make: This recipe is completely homemade yet super simple. There’s the added step of browning the butter but it only takes five minutes.
- Delicious: They have a crispy crust comes from whipping the eggs and sugar together, and added richness from the chocolate and brown butter.
- Perfectly Chewy: They are also slightly chewy from the melted butter and brown sugar.
Ingredients
Below are some useful notes about some of the ingredients.
- Unsalted Butter: We are using melted unsalted butter. The brownies owe their chewiness in part to the melted butter.
- Semi-sweet chocolate: I prefer these brownies with semi-sweet chocolate but bittersweet can also be used. They just won’t be quite as sweet.
- Vanilla extract: Lots of vanilla for lots of flavor!
- Eggs: You’ll notice there’s no baking powder or baking soda used in this recipe. The eggs are whipped and are the only leavener. The whipped eggs also help create a nice crispy top.
- Sugar: We are using granulated sugar and brown sugar. Brown sugar imparts its molasses flavor and adds chewiness. Use light or dark brown sugar.
- Cocoa Powder: I used Dutch process, but you can use regular unsweetened cocoa powder.
- Salt: The salt balances out the sweetness of the brownies. Flaky sea salt can also be added to the top them off.
- Chocolate chips: I use dark chocolate but semi-sweet chocolate chips also work.
Please see recipe card below for full list of ingredients and their measurements.
Substitutions
- Salted butter-Salted butter can be used in place of unsalted butter. If you use salted butter, I would recommend reducing the salt to about 1/4 teaspoon.
- Melted butter-Instead of brown butter, you can simply use melted butter.
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Brown Butter Brownies
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter
- 7 ounces bittersweet or semisweet chocolate chopped
- 2 3/4 teaspoons vanilla
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 cup flour
- 1/4 cup Dutch process or unsweetened cocoa powder sifted
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup semi sweet or dark chocolate chips
Instructions
- Line a 9 x 9 inch pan with parchment paper leaving enough to hang from the sides. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
- Place the chopped chocolate in a medium sized mixing bowl.
- Melt the butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Use a light colored pan if possible as this will help you better notice the butter change color. Stir it constantly. It will start to foam. Continue stirring as you watch for it to turn to a light, amber color then a medium brown and develop a nutty smell which should happen in about five minutes. Pour the brown butter over the chopped chocolate and stir until chocolate has melted completely. Allow to cool slightly.
- In a medium bowl, whisk to combine the flour, cocoa, and salt. Set aside.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, beat together the sugars, eggs and vanilla on high speed until mixture has thickened and lightened in color, about 3-4 minutes .
- With the mixer on low, slowly stream in the slightly cooled chocolate and brown butter mixture.
- Stir in the dry ingredients til just combined. Fold in the chocolate chips.
- Pour the brownie batter into the pan and use a spatula or offset spatula to evenly spread out the brownies and smooth out the top. Bake for 40- 50 minutes until a toothpick when inserted in the center comes out clean and with only a few crumbs. Keep in mind the brownies will continue to cook slightly when out of the oven, so do not over bake them. Place pan on a wire rack and allow brownies to cool completely in the pan before slicing.
Nutrition
Please note that nutritional values are created by an online calculator and should only be used as an estimate.
Christine
Made these brownies and they turned out perfectly moist and decadent. I only had 70% dark chocolate bars so I melted those and mixed them with the brown butter and they came out delicious. I recommend trying this recipe, they’ll definitely be a hit at your next dinner party!
Natalie
Hi Christine!
Thanks for making these brown butter brownies and for taking the time to comment. They definitely are very moist and decadent and I’m so happy you enjoyed them! Have a great week 🙂 -Natalie
Charlotte Holinier
These brownies look scrumptious Natalie! The brown butter must add so much flavour!
Natalie
🙂 Thanks Charlotte!! They are SO good and the brown butter makes them super flavorful and rich! Hope you get to try them!
Michael
9×9 pan? In you picture it’s looks like the Brownies are ina 9×13 pan because the pan on the picture is definitely rectangular. What’s the correct pan size?
Natalie
Hi Michael, Thanks for your question. I can see how that would be confusing since I used a 9 by 13 pan in the photos. The correct pan size is 9×9. Please let me know if you have any other questions. Have a great day. -Natalie
Myssa
Hey…
Your recipes so amazing thank u so much
I wanna to make this brownies but I can’t understand the amounts between cups and ounces
Can u please be write in grams
Thanks u alot
Natalie
Hello! Thank you so much for your nice compliment! 🙂 Thank you as well for asking about writing in grams. I’m sorry I don’t have them in grams yet, but it is definitely something I plan on doing as soon as possible! If there is a particular recipe you’d like to make in the meantime, please let me know and I’d be happy to give you the conversions for it! Have a great day! -Natalie