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Fudge Brownie Cake with Chocolate Ganache

I love it when you can make the most chocolaty fudge brownie cake with the simplest of ingredients. And to top it all, make a simple and most delicious chocolate ganache.

I love it when you can make the most chocolaty fudge brownie cake with the simplest of ingredients. And to top it all make a simple and most delicious chocolate ganache.

Anyone else here dreaming about chocolate desserts now that it’s become moodier and cooler?

I’m not normally the one dreaming about anything chocolate (many desserts come before chocolate!) but this year I can’t help myself 🙂

So the other day I made a chocolate fudge brownie cake and it was utterly drool-worthy. It would be a shame not to share the recipe with you guys. And I actually added a simple chocolate ganache recipe to use on the cake. Because more chocolate is just better (again, I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I guess times are changing!).

Here I used a bunch of fruits from the garden (I shot these a while ago when we still had some blueberries and raspberries in the garden). You can add any fruit you like such as banana, figs, pears and similar or just keep it a simple chocolate cake. Be creative!

I love it when you can make the most chocolaty fudge brownie cake with the simplest of ingredients. And to top it all make a simple and most delicious chocolate ganache.
I love it when you can make the most chocolaty fudge brownie cake with the simplest of ingredients. And to top it all make a simple and most delicious chocolate ganache.
I love it when you can make the most chocolaty fudge brownie cake with the simplest of ingredients. And to top it all make a simple and most delicious chocolate ganache.
I love it when you can make the most chocolaty fudge brownie cake with the simplest of ingredients. And to top it all make a simple and most delicious chocolate ganache.

Like I’ve said here probably a million times, the best recipes are simple ones that don’t require a bunch of ingredients and equipment. This is a recipe just like that. And that’s why I’m such a huge fan of brownies. So simple and everyone always likes them. Win-win!

If you’re not into fudgy brownies and prefer a cakier one, I have another amazing recipe here.

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I love it when you can make the most chocolaty fudge brownie cake with the simplest of ingredients. And to top it all make a simple and most delicious chocolate ganache.
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Fudge Brownie Cake with Chocolate Ganache

Course Dessert
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
Cooling time 2 hours
Total Time 3 hours
Author Anja Burgar

Ingredients

Fudge Brownie Cake

  • 200 g bitter-sweet chocolate finely chopped
  • 1/2 cup butter cubed
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1/4 tsp salt

Chocolate ganache

  • 1/2 cup heavy cream (110 ml)
  • 150 g bitter-sweet chocolate very finely chopped

Instructions

Fudge Brownie Cake

  1. Preheat the oven to 180°C (350°F) and butter the sides and bottom of a 6-inch cake pan.

  2. Place chocolate and butter in a heat-proof bowl and place it over a pan of simmering water. Stir often until chocolate and butter have melted completely.

  3. Remove from the stove and add sugar and salt. Mix well.

  4. Once the mixture is not anymore, add eggs one at a time and use a whisk to mix them in well. The mixture should not be too slimy.

  5. Finally, add flour and mix it in to get a uniform batter.

  6. Pour the batter into the cake pan and bake for 40-45 minutes. You can do a toothpick test, however you will see it be brown and sticky even when the cake is done. Just make sure the toothpick shows the sticky inside and not a runny inside.

  7. Once the cake is baked, remove it from the oven and leave to rest for 10 minutes before removing it from the pan.

  8. Cool it to room temperature or keep in the fridge before decorating with chocolate ganache.

Chocolate ganache

  1. While the cake is cooling, prepare the chocolate ganache.

  2. Pour heavy cream into a pot and heat until steaming but DO NOT LET IT BOIL!

  3. Pour the steaming hot heavy cream over the finely chopped chocolate and let it sit for 5-10 minutes or until the chocolate has completely melted. Stir with a spatula to create a smooth cream.

  4. The cream will be pretty runny and it's okay to use it like this if you prefer.

  5. To create a cream like in the photos, wait until the cream cools down to room temperature to become thicker and spreadable. If it still feels too runny, place it in the fridge until it gets the right consistency.

  6. You can prepare the cream in advance and store it in the fridge, then take it out an hour before using it.

I love it when you can make the most chocolaty fudge brownie cake with the simplest of ingredients. And to top it all make a simple and most delicious chocolate ganache.
I love it when you can make the most chocolaty fudge brownie cake with the simplest of ingredients. And to top it all make a simple and most delicious chocolate ganache.

Triple Chocolate Sour Cherry Brownies

Rich, melt-in-your-mouth triple chocolate sour cherry brownies. An easy recipe for decadent homemade chocolate brownie explosion.

Use Your Noodles - Triple Chocolate Sour Cherry Brownies

What’s better than chocolate? Triple chocolate. And even better are these triple chocolate sour cherry brownies with bittersweet, semi-sweet and white chocolate.

Since it is Valentine’s day on Sunday, I think it’s appropriate to do something chocolaty. One of my Instagram followers suggested I did a brownie recipe, so I’m making it! How exciting is this?

Use Your Noodles - Triple Chocolate Sour Cherry Brownies

I’m by no means a brownie expert. This recipe came out by pure luck. It was one of those moments when you say, I’m just going to make something. So I did, I checked out a few recipes, written down some thoughts and ratios and started cooking. After the brownies came out of the oven the first time I was smitten by them. They were the perfect ratio between a cakey and fudgy brownie, in favour of cakey, which is what I like.  Later I added more sour cherries and some white chocolate chips on top, just because I can 🙂 

Use Your Noodles - Triple Chocolate Sour Cherry Brownies

If you’ve ever made brownies, you know they can be fudgy and dense, or they can be more cake-like. These brownies are more on the cakey side. There is some baking soda in them and an extra egg, so they have a cakey texture on top and the bottom, but they are thick on the inside, because the ratio between butter and chocolate to dry ingredients is high. There are bittersweet chocolate chips in there, which gives them extra gooeyness. White chocolate chips and sour cherries on the top are for some sweet and sour, moist kick. Believe me, they re even better than they sound.

Use Your Noodles - Triple Chocolate Sour Cherry Brownies

If you are wondering how to make a perfect brownie, Samina from The Cupcake Conffesion has written a nice post about Top 5 mistakes to avoid when making brownies. They might seem obvious, but from my own experience I say, the obvious mistakes are the ones we make most often.

As for the cooling down goes, I’m the one that’s always impatient. I want to dig in immediately. But, if you are planing on serving your brownies to someone, please don’t do that! There’s almost no possibility you’re going to be able to cut them into beautiful piceces, or even taking them out of the pan, without messing them up. The best is if you cool it down completely. If there’s no one waiting for these little goodies, dig in with a spoon, while they are hot. But watch out that no one is looking 🙂

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Use Your Noodles - Triple Chocolate Sour Cherry Brownies
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TRIPLE CHOCOLATE SOUR CHERRY BROWNIES

Course Dessert
Keyword brownies, chocolate, chocolate cake
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes
Servings 15

Ingredients

  • 200 g semi-sweet chocolate
  • 110 g butter
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 1/2 cup whole grain spelt flour
  • 4 TBSP cocoa powder
  • 1 tsp vanilla seeds
  • 1/4 tsp baking soda
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 60 g bittersweet chocolate chips
  • 60 g white chocolate chips
  • 1 cup sour cherries

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven at 175 °C. Butter the sides and the bottom of a 20×33 cm (8×12 inch) pan and line it with baking paper.
  2. Put the bittersweet chocolate and butter in a large bowl and set it over a saucepan of simmering water. Stir occasionally, until the chocolate and butter are completely melted.
  3. Turn off the heat and add the sugar. Whisk until the sugar is completely combined, then remove from the saucepan and wait for the mixture to cool for about 10 minutes.
  4. Whisk in the eggs, one by one.
  5. Add vanilla bean powder, baking soda, salt, and a third of the flour to the chocolate mixture. Whisk well. Add the rest of the flour and whisk again until the mixture is smooth.
  6. Stir in the bittersweet chocolate chips.
  7. Pour the batter in the prepared pan and sour cherries. Don’t press them in.
  8. Bake for about 25 minutes or until the edges start to pull away from the sides of the pan. Keep in mind that it is better to slightly underbake than overbake brownies.
  9. When you take the brownies out of the oven sprinkle them with white chocolate chips. Here you can press in a little if you like.
  10. Wait for the brownies to cool completely, then lift them up together with the baking paper and cut them into 15 pieces.
  11. Store in a plastic wrap or air-tight container at room temperature for up to 4 days.

For more Valentine’s day dessert ideas check my Coffee Pudding recipe.

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