Fudgy Shiny Crust Brownies. Brownie batter is a very low moisture batter, unlike cake batter that has a higher water content. How to get a shiny crust on brownies? Whisk the sugar into the eggs first.
Perhaps, the way you beat the eggs with sugar or the chocolate you use, can intensify the structure but I'm not going to get too fancy with chemistry or ingredients.
This hack unfortunately does not work for Vegan brownies, but here is a vegan brownie recipe that does turn out with a shiny brownie crust.
I personally prefer chocolate only for gluten free brownies, but for normal brownies I love a recipe that uses both cocoa powder and chocolate in the batter itself as I find the chocolate flavour to be more.
You can have Fudgy Shiny Crust Brownies using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Fudgy Shiny Crust Brownies
- Prepare 130 gram of DCC.
- Prepare 2 butir of Telur.
- You need 120 gram of gula halus.
- You need 110 gram of terigu protein sedang.
- You need 30 gram of cokelat bubuk.
- Prepare 50 gram of minyak goreng.
- Prepare 50 gram of mentega / margarin.
- You need of Topping sesuai selera (aku pakai choco chips).
Thus the successful brownie's signature shiny/delicate/flaky top crust. Some bakers say the key to making brownies with shiny crust is dissolving the sugar in melted butter before adding; others call for several minutes of beating, to make sure sugar and egg are fully combined. So I devise a series of tests. These brownies are not too cakey, not too fudgy.
Fudgy Shiny Crust Brownies step by step
- Siapkan loyang ukuran 10 x 30 cm. Olesi dengan margarin lalu alasi dengan kertas roti..
- Lelehkan dalam 1 wadah DCC, mentega/margarin, dan minyak goreng..
- Kocok telur dengan gula halus (5 menit dengan mixer kecepatan rendah, 15 menit dengan whisk) hingga gula tercampur rata..
- Masukan terigu dan cokelat bubuk yang sudah diayak. Aduk sebentar, hanya sampai tercampur rata. Lalu masukan DCC yang sudah dilelehkan. Aduk rata (mixer kurang dari 1 menit)..
- Kemudian masukan ke dalam loyang, taburi dengan toping dan panggang dengan suhu 160°c kurang lebih 35 menit (sesuaikan dengan oven).
- Selamat menikmati....
If you bake them just right, they will have both qualities and feature a desirable, shiny and crackly crust. Brownies are one of those desserts where we think you can never have enough variations. You need truffle-like ones, dense ones, cakey ones - we love them all. The brownies are fudgy, moist, chewy and have a shiny crackly surface. And the best part is, it's an easy one-bowl recipe!
