Easy Cocoa Powder Brownies (Dark & Fudgy)

5 from 4 votes

The most decadently dark and fudgy cocoa powder brownies you can make!

Prep Time20

Cook Time17

Total Time37

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Servings: 7 inches square tray

Calories: 2220.1kcal

Preheat oven to 160 °Celsius. Grease and line a 7 inches square pan.
Melt butter over very low heat. Once melted, turn off the heat and add brown sugar and whisk for about 30 – 45 seconds. Transfer the mixture to a large bowl and let it cool slightly.
Add the eggs and whisk them into the butter and sugar mixture. Whisk until the eggs are all well incorporated, for about 1 minute. Add salt and stir.
Next, sift flour and cocoa powder into the mixture and fold them in until they are well incorporated.
Add vanilla extract and mix well.
Pour the brownie batter into the prepared tin and level the top.
Bake for about 20 minutes at your normal cake baking temperature. Remove brownie from oven and let it cool in tin for about 10 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
Cut into 16 pieces or large pieces as desired and serve.

- Always make sure you keep to the time and tin size of these chocolate fudge brownies as mentioned in the recipe. If you change the tin size for something larger or smaller, the time has to be adjusted accordingly. For larger tin sizes, since the batter is spread thinner, you would need to reduce your baking time. And for smaller tin sizes, since the batter is spread thicker, it would require a longer time. These changes need to be adjusted manually. And this is often the most frequent reason why people end up with over-baked or under-baked brownies.

- If these brownies are over-baked, they will end up with a cakey texture. And if yours turn out like that, you need to reduce the baking time the next time you make these treats.

- The other note about brownie tins is that brownies baked in metal tins cook faster compared to glass dishes. So, if a recipe calls for a metal tin and you make yours in a glass dish, be mindful that the baking time would need to be adjusted accordingly as well.

- Oven temperature is another factor that could affect the texture of these cocoa powder brownies. The tricky thing about oven temperatures is that different ovens require different degree of heat for the same results. For example, I always set my oven to 160 to 170 degrees Celsius for cakes, even if the recipe requires the oven temperature to be 180 degrees Celsius.

- The oven temperature for brownies is often the same as that used for cakes. And so when baking my brownies, that is the temperature I use. You should ideally set your oven temperature to the heat you use when baking cakes.