Double Chocolate Stout Brownies
You may have noticed a few trends on my blog, but one of them definitely is using booze in my desserts. And not just any drinks, but the ones that can print a certain earthiness on my desserts, ones that don’t yell „look at me, I’m here”, just those that support the other flavors or enhance them. So it was the case with my Chocolate Bacon Cake or Red Wine Chocolate Cake and the list can easily go on. The funny thing is I don’t even really like drinks like wine, beer or stout if I were to just drink them. Mind you, I just had to google the difference between beer and stout. But in desserts is a whole different story!
If there’s one thing the stout does for these brownies, that’s enhancing the flavor of the chocolate to the point where the deep, intense taste of chocolate swipes off you feet. It does have a double dose of chocolate though! And a good dose of dark, intense stout – any brand will do, but make sure it’s rich and strong.
These double chocolate stout brownies don’t taste like beer though. They’ve got a certain bitterness and an earthiness coming from it, but the focal point surely is the chocolate….and the fudgy, silky inside. Biting into these brownies is heaven on earth for each of your taste buds – it tastes like all the chocolate is flooding your senses and making you reach for a second serving.
The recipe starts off as a classical brownie – chocolate and butter, melted together, then eggs and sugar whipped to double volume, followed by folding in the flour and cocoa powder. Nothing new here – until you pour in the dark stout and end up with a quite liquid mix, but one that will bake to perfection in the oven!
Double Chocolate Stout Brownies
Ingredients
- 200 g dark chocolate (70%)
- 200 g butter (cubed)
- 4 eggs
- 200 g white sugar
- 50 g dark brown sugar
- 5 g vanilla extract
- 120 g dark stout
- 100 g all-purpose white flour
- 30 g cocoa powder
- 2 g salt
Instructions
- Sift the flour, cocoa and salt together in a bowl.
- Melt the chocolate and butter in a bowl over a hot water bath.
- Combine the eggs, sugars and vanilla in a bowl and whip for 5-7 minutes until triple in volume.
- Stir in the melted chocolate and mix quickly just until incorporated.
- Pour in the stout and mix quickly then add the flour mix and fold it in.
- Pour the batter into a 25x25cm square pan lined with baking paper.
- Bake in the preheated oven at 350°F for 25-30 minutes or until the center looks almost set. Don't bake more than 30 minutes as it will dry out too much.
- Allow to cool completely in the pan then slice and serve.
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