The Best Cocoa Powder Brownie Recipe

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The Best Cocoa Powder Brownie Recipe

How to make the best fudgy cocoa powder brownies - This simple and easy recipe uses Hershey's unsweetened cocoa powder with eggs, flour, sugar, butter, and oil to make the best moist homemade chewy chocolate fudge brownies from scratch. One bowl recipe.

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Prep Time 10

Cook Time 20

Course Dessert

Servings people

Calories 170 kcal

Equipment

Ingredients

½ cup butter melted and very hot
1 tablespoons canola oil
1-⅛ cup sugar
2 large eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla bean paste
½ cup all-purpose flour
½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
¼ teaspoon salt

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350º. Spray the pan you'll be using with cooking spray, and set aside.
In a medium bowl, combine hot melted butter, canola oil, and sugar. Whisk for at least a minute so that everything is well combined and the sugar is as dissolved as possible. Add the eggs and vanilla and beat until the batter turns a lighter color, at least another minute.
Sift in the flour, cocoa powder, and salt. Fold the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients until they are just incorporated. Be careful not to overbeat after you add the dry ingredients or your brownies will get too much air inside and be more cake-like than fudgy.
Use a large scoop to measure out the batter into the wells of your brownie pan or muffin pan.
Bake for about 20 minutes, or until the top is just set. A tester inserted in the brownies should come out dirty but not wet.
If you have made your brownies in an 8x8 pan, allow them to cool completely to room temperature before slicing into 16 squares.

Notes

I prefer to use a brownie pan for brownies, but a muffin pan or even an 8x8 pan will work. As you can see in the photos, my photographer uses an 8x8 pan, and her brownies came out great.

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