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Brownie butter cake - thick brownie and rich butter cake combined into one decadent and to-die-for cake! Bake the brownie first and then the butter cake.
I am so happy that my contributor CP Choong is back with more sinfully delicious baking recipes.
In this post, she is sharing an utterly gorgeous, rich, buttery, and decadent Brownie Butter Cake recipe, adapted from Kevin Chai’s “I love Butter Cake Too 2” cookbook.
CP Choong and I went to high school together, but we didn’t know each other when we were in high school.
Our high school is the most famous Chinese girls school in Penang, attended by hundreds of students in each grade.
Fast forward to present time, CP and I finally met, through a mutual good friend, when I was back in Penang earlier this year.
I am just so happy that she is now my contributor and I can share her wonderful baking recipes with you.
She is an excellent baker and also a very talented photographer.
I absolutely love her food photography and her baked goods are truly top-notch.
If you read this blog, you will know that I love butter cake and my family really enjoys butter cake with coffee.
So, you can clearly see why I am partial to this brownie butter cake—it’s butter cake, but better, because there is brownie at the bottom of the butter cake.
Just look at the photos, I am sure you can smell the buttery and rich chocolate aroma from the screen.
Put simply, this brownie butter cake is simply brilliant and irresistible.
This recipe calls for double baking: first, you bake the brownie, and then the butter cake that goes on top.
However, the time invested is well worth it when you sink your teeth into the rich, buttery, warm, chocolate-y brownie butter cake.
Enjoy!
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This recipe is only 355 calories per serving.
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Brownie Butter Cake
Ingredients
Brownie:
- 140 g (5 oz) dark chocolate, broken into pieces
- 50 g (1¾ oz) unsalted butter
- 50 g (1¾ oz) brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 35 g (1¼ oz) all-purpose flour
Butter cake:
- 120 g (4 oz) unsalted butter
- 100 g (3½ oz) sugar
- 2 eggs
- 120 g (4 oz) all-purpose flour
- 2 g (0.07 oz) baking powder
- 50 ml fresh milk
Instructions
- Grease and line a 10cm x 20cm (4×8-inch) loaf pan with aluminum foil. Preheat the oven to 180°C (350°F).
- To make the brownie, melt the chocolate and butter over low heat. Remove from heat and let it cool slightly. Stir in the brown sugar until well blended.
- Add the egg and mix well. Fold in the flour and combine until smooth. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake in the preheated oven for 15 minutes. Remove from the oven.
- To make the butter cake, beat the butter with sugar until creamy. Add in the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Fold in the sifted flour and baking powder, alternating with the fresh milk, and mix until the batter is smooth and well combined.
- Spread the butter cake batter over the brownie layer. Bake in the oven at 160°C (320°F) for 25-30 minutes or until fully cooked. Insert a cake tester into the center to check for doneness.
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Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
What can we use instead of eggs..??
You need eggs.
I plan to try this but will add glacé orange to the brownie batter and orange zest to the butter cake batter.
Hi! The cake looks nice. I am definitely going to try it this weekend but I need to know if a can frost the cake. Thanks!
I think you can.
Hi! The cake looks nice. I am definitely going to try it this weekend but I would like to know if I can frost it. Thanks!
I made this yesterday and it came out perfect. Super easy to make. I added some vanilla and salt to both batters and I only had a 9×5 pan, so mine came out a little shorter & wider, but it was delicious. Like others, I did have to let mine bake quite a bit longer, but I just covered the top with foil to prevent browning & I had no problems. Thanks!
Hi, i made it yesterday, turn out superb yummy. My family love it and my morocco hubby love it and the cake only last 30 min on the table. LOL. 1st time baking brownie and yess it was a succesful one. Although my butter cake did not look as smooth as yours (i add in orange zest) but me and the whole family enjoy it. Thanks ?
I just served this to my family and it tasted SO delicious!!! The only thing was, mine was more dense and not “Starbucks’s moist” like your posted picture and so I was wondering if I either over stirred or under stirred the cake batter (the brownie layer was perfect!
Hi,
Just to check, how long will the cake last? Thanks!
A few days.
I tried this cake.Was yummm.Brownie part was very tasty.The texture of the cake was awesome.
Please advise the chocolate used is chocolate couverture or compound. Will these 2 types of chocolate give different brownie texture?