Chocolate has been shown to affect your mood positively. After eating chocolate, serotonin is released, and it helps stabilize the mood. So if you need the ultimate comfort food in the form of a cake, the best choice must be a chocolate brownie. This is my sourdough brownies recipe for fudgy brownies with discard.
There are commonly two types of brownies: cakey and fudgy, and people seem to have a specific preference. My favorite is the fudgy brownie, which you will see here today.
If enough people ask for a sourdough cakey brownie, I may develop a recipe.
If you are just here for the recipe, you can press the button underneath to be automagically transported to the recipe:
Like most beloved food items, brownies go back a long time, and their history is riddled with made-up stories and legends.
One such story goes: A socialite called Bertha Palmer, whose husband owned a prominent Chicago hotel called Palmer House Hotel, asked one of the hotel’s pastry chefs for a confection for the ladies attending the Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition.
It was supposed to be smaller than a cake and able to be included in a lunchbox. The result was the Palmer House Brownie with walnuts and an apricot glaze. It is served to this day at the hotel.
This first known printed version of a brownie recipe was published in 1899 in Machias Cookbook. They were called “Brownie’s Food”.
Brownies are loved to this day and are made at home as a huge favorite worldwide.
The batter composition in this sourdough brownies recipe
This batter uses melted chocolate and cocoa powder, which helps give it that deep, dark chocolate flavor that’s important for a great brownie.
My thanks go to Adam Ragusea for figuring out that the secret to getting that glossy papery skin on top of a brownie lies in using icing sugar because it dissolves faster into the batter, so that’s why I use icing sugar.
The rest of the ingredients are lots of delicious butter, eggs, vanilla, and a bit of all-purpose flour for a bit of structure.
Weight
Ingredient
Baker's Percentage
225g
butter, salted
346.2%
250g
dark chocolate
384.6%
10g
vanilla extract
15.4%
45g
cocoa powder
69.2%
100g
egg, whole
153.8%
300g
powdered sugar
461.5%
65g
all-purpose flour
100%
5g
salt
7.7%
200g
starter (100% hydration)
307.7%
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The conclusion of this fudgy sourdough brownies recipe
So, this brownie recipe is a very moist and fudgy cake with a lot of rich chocolate flavor and complex fermented notes. How does it deliver?
Well, I went through quite a few iterations of this brownie before ending up on this final recipe.
It has the perfect balance of deep, dark chocolate flavor, the right amount of salt, an incredibly fudgy texture, and just enough fermented taste to bring the whole cake to another level.
If you love brownies, give this recipe a go. I am sure you will not be disappointed.
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This is my recipe for fudgy sourdough brownies. If you like the recipe, please consider sharing it with like-minded bread lovers on social media.
If you make it and post it on Instagram, please tag me as @foodgeek.dk so I can see it. That would make me very happy.
