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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.
I did not like this cake at all. The brownie came out crumbly and too bitter. The butter cake was also not sweet enough. It looks pretty but flavor and texture wise just didn’t do for me. I think it would be better off making it from a boxed brownie mix and adding more sugar to the butter cake mix. I feel like I wasted ingredients on this cake! ?
Michelle – I am sorry that this recipe didn’t work out for you. A lot of people tried and liked it.
With so many good reviews, I’ll give this another try. The brownie portion was a tad crumbly for me as well though it held together pretty well. Although the butter cake needed more sugar, wasn’t too bad :) Will add more sugar and vanilla extract to the butter cake portion next time!
Don’t you just love recipes that look complicated but are very simple???? Definitely will make this soon, it is a drool factor 10!! (drool factor is how I judge some recipes, on a scale of 1-10 with 1 being no way and 10 being I needed a napkin)!! Your photos are great, too!!
Thanks Judy.
Brownies AND butter cake?! Oh my yum!
I tried it today and i didn’t liked it. The brownie part is overcooked, the butter cake is too…buttery. More than one tablespoon of butter oil came out and was floating around. :( any tips?
Reduce your butter.
Was wondering if some of the issues stated above are because the cake batter was sitting and the butter melted and separated while waiting to be poured over the brownie….
I tried the recipe but i failed the butter cake, it looks like it contains an extra dose of butter even though I respected the ingredients.
I am not sure what happened but many tried with success.
Hi Bee,
May I know how long can we keep the cake at room temperature? May I know if this cake freeze well if I am to prepare it in advance?
Thank you!
Regards,
Hui Ying
Hi, I followed the recipe but when I took the brownie part out and put the butter cake part on it, the butter cake just sunk into the brownie and in the end it was liquidy and had to bake it longer.
I baked this 3 times and it came out nice and yummy and yes it took about 20 mins longer to cook it. My grandkids prefer the chocolate portion more and so this time I am going to double the chocolate. Hope it will turn out as yummy. Thank you for the recipe.
I tried the recipe with less luck.. my brownie and butter cake did not stick together.. I read the comments and found few others had the same problem too.. could you please tell me what mistake I might have made.. Nevertheless , both the cakes ( as mine didn’t stick together ) tasted yummy…
Photo looked amazing. Butter cake recipe didn’t call for salt. It definitely needed salt and more sugar. I baked it for 15 extra minutes until toothpick came out clean. I would bake again and add 1/4 tsp salt and 1/4 cup more sugar.
Please feel free to add salt and more sugar to suit your taste.