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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.
Do you think this can be done with a brownie mix and cake mix and still turn out the same way?
Maybe but…it’s best you follow this recipe.
I made this tonight with little success.I followed the recipe to the T..but the brownie completely fell apart when I took it out of the pan, tha cake baked perfectly but tasted very to much like flour..my husband had a pies at told me to throw the rest away! I never have bad luck banking so what went wrong!!?
I don’t know what happened many people tried this Brownie Butter Cake recipe with success and no issues with it.
Unsweetened chocolate IS bitter and nowhere in the recipe does it even mention “unsweetened chocolate”…some people! Anyway, I never leave reviews but this deserves one. Made this exactly as directed and it was just divine..seriously! Goes great with coffee or a cold glass of milk. Used dark chocolate chips for the brownie part, and I will probably add some vanilla extract to the butter cake mixture next time…cause there will many more. Thanks for such a great recipe!
Thanks for your great comment about this brownie butter cake recipe. :)
Well aren’t you just a rude little kiss ass
You should specify what kind of dark chocolate, I used unsweetened cacao and the brownie part is very bitter. I think is recipe intended sweetened chocolate.
Dear Rasa,
I do not have a loaf pan. Can you please suggest an alternative to it.. May be a springform round pan??
Please suggest..
Awaiting your inputs!!
Thanks in advance!
Sheena,
India
Hi there! Just thinking, the brownie won’t get burnt? I mean its like a double bake for the brownie right?
No, just follow the recipe.
I tried this recipe just now i added vanilla extract to my butter cake .and i didn’t have any chocolate at home i used Nutella instead my brownie is amazing the recipe came pretty well but i n have to improve my butter cake
Tried the recipe today…and it looks and tastes yummy..!!!!!!!!
Can this be baked in a square or round tin? If yes, what size? Thanks!!
My options at the grocery store for Chocolate are; Bittersweet, Semi-sweet or Unsweetened. Which do you think would be the best choice?
Semi-sweet will be great. :)