Homemade Chocolate Brownies From Scratch (Fudgy & Delicious)
Have you ever wanted to make from scratch brownies? These fudgy, gooey brownies are so easy to make, you’ll never make brownies from a box again!
Now, before you tell me that the box brownies are so much faster and tastes amazing, you’re right. I don’t deny that. I love a good brownie mix.
But THIS homemade brownie recipe makes the most gooey, chocolate brownies that I’m fairly confident will become your favorite! They might just look like plain brownies in the pics, but they are SO GOOD!
Brownies from scratch are NOT that much more time-consuming to make either. You also only end up with a saucepan and one mixing bowl for dishes.
You know how everyone has that one chore they just loathe? Laundry? Vacuuming? It’s dishes for me, which is sort of bad considering my job, but I power through. ;)
TIPS FOR HOMEMADE BROWNIES
- When buying your cocoa powder, be sure to buy unsweetened cocoa powder. Sounds confusing, but trust the process, these brownies are sweet (but not too sweet)! You can often find dark cocoa powder as well, which I’m sure would be delicious too.
- I make this homemade brownies recipes in a 9 by 13 pan (lined with parchment paper). This makes it a lot easier to cut out your brownie squares. If you’ve ever bought the little pop-up parchment paper sheets from the grocery store, you know how life-changing they are! Look for them!
- Be sure to fully cool your brownies before cutting them into squares!
MAKE YOUR HOMEMADE BROWNIES EVEN MORE AMAZING
- Let’s talk about chocolate chips. I always like to enhance chocolate desserts with extra chocolate chips. Life is short. For these brownies, I use mini chocolate chips, but you can certainly use any kind you prefer!
- Add in candy bars between layers of the brownie batter for an even more decadent dessert.
- Frost the top of your brownies with a chocolate frosting or glaze once they’ve cooled.
Try to resist eating all the brownie batter (it’s amazing, I know), or else you won’t get to enjoy these “better than box mix” homemade brownies. They’re so gooey and full of chocolate flavor!
I cut these homemade brownies into about 24 squares which I think was perfect. You could certainly make more servings by cutting smaller squares or go big with bakery-style larger brownies.
I highly encourage you make this brownie recipe from scratch now, you can control your ingredients more, and you’ll find they’re just as delicious as box mix brownies.
For more delicious chocolate recipes, check out:
- Butterscotch Brownies
- Cream Cheese Cookies
- Chocolate Chip Walnut Cookies
- Angus Barn Chocolate Chess Pie
- German Chocolate Cake
- Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie
How to Make Brownies from Scratch:
Homemade Brownies
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter - (2 sticks)
- 2 1/4 cup sugar
- 4 large eggs
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 cups mini semi-sweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- In a saucepan over low heat, melt butter. Add sugar and stir until just combined.
- Remove from heat and pour into heat-proof mixing bowl. Stir in eggs, one at a time. Add vanilla and stir until combined.
- Stir in cocoa powder, salt, baking powder and flour until combined. Stir in chocolate chips.
- Spread brownie batter into prepared, parchment-lined 9×13 pan. Bake for 30-40 minutes or until a toothpick in the center comes out clean. Don’t over-bake.
Oh my gosh, these are AMAZING! Thanks for sharing the easy and delicious recipe! We served them warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream!
Thank you, Julie!
It quickly disappeared in my house! Such an amazing brownie recipe! Thank you!
Thanks Toni!!
These look delicious and like they wouldn’t last long in my house!
These are incredible! Homemade brownies are the best. GREAT recipe!
Made them without the chips! 🤞🤞
Thanks for the tip about buying unsweetened cocoa powder! I always have an issue with my brownies being a tad too sweet and that fix made them just right. Thanks for the great recipe!
Brownies are hands down my favorite dessert and these look incredible!!!
I added chopped walnuts and used milk chocolate chips and these were the BEST homemade brownies!!!!! Looked just like the pics you posted, too! I needed to cook for 20 min, though, as I have a very shallow and long baking pan (14x 9?). Thank you so much for making me try scratch brownies, they are the best I’ve ever had and my husband and kids agree!
Hi Jessie! SO GLAD to hear this! The chopped walnuts and milk chocolate chips sounds like a delicious addition! Glad you enjoyed :)
These came out really well! :) I’ve only made brownies from scratch once before and this was a much simpler recipe to follow. I used a mix of flour that is gluten-free, and they still were awesome!
For a twist, I added a bit of Kahlua and Grand Marnier to the mix. Let’s just say a glass of milk goes perfectly. I’ll be making these many more times with different touches to kick them up a notch. Life is to short to not enjoy a really good brownie. Steven
You should try adding reeses peanut butter chips, or melting thise down with condensed milk and spreading it on top! It’s what I usually do bc we are peanut butter fans. Just wanted to give you an idea for next time! 😉
AMAZING! So thick and chewy!
Followed the recipe to a T & after over an hour of baking, still batter-y in the middle but the edges were rock hard. We were looking forward to enjoying brownies but were sadly quite disappointed.
I’m so sorry to hear that, Kaitlyn. I’ve tested these countless times and had many people make them without a similar issue. Have you had your oven calibrated? What type of brownie pan did you bake them in? Metal? Glass?
I was excited to build these and followed the recipe to a T. I believe this recipe would be slightly tastier with less Cacao powder. Also, I would love to replicate that chewy texture that we get from premade boxes…any modifications that might aid that? Only thing that crossed my mind was maybe I should have sifted the cacao powder? Or maybe my sugar free cacao is too old. Thoughts?
I followed this recipe and the batter was super thiccc, they were great while still warm but once they cooled they got a bit hard.
These were easy to make ànd delicious! At 30 min. they weren’t quite done, but at 35 min they were perfect!
Omg these are the best brownies I have ever had. My Uncle requests them all the time. They are chewy, decadent and hard to eat just one. They also freeze really well. Just take out night before. I also couldn’t resist adding extra chips.
My daughter made these and I assisted a little and only stirred until everything was incorporated (4xs) and used parchment with metal pan and baked for 35 minutes and they canecame out great, even with a crackling top that you see on brownie boxes. We only had 1/2 c of baking cocoa and rest was melted chocolate chips added in.. Thanks for sharing!
These brownies are amazing. I first tried this recipe for youth group.They loved them.
I just made a batch and put Carmel bits in. I oven as I post this. Yummy delicious thank you.
9×13 pan?
Wow! Equal amounts of cocoa and flour?
Is cocoa powder supposed to be 1 1/3 cups or 1/3 cup? I’ve never used that much in a recipe. Very good but too chocolaty!
Trying this recipe For the first time, me being a retired 67 year old male at home all day. I’m just trying to pull my wait, I have Shrimp Scampi for dinner.
They smell wonderful! Easy recipe and delicious.
I took these to a Memorial Day cookout. People ate the before and hey were even served and came back for more! A keeper recipe!
I made these brownies awhile ago after a lengthy internet search for the best gooey recipe for brownies. I have not turned back since. Not even to box brownies. These are SO delicious and are so easy to make. My daughter asked for them yesterday, so I’m getting ready to make them again today. I like to add reeses peanut butter chips into my batch every once in awhile. We LOVE brownies with peanut butter smeared on them and a scoop (or 2) of ice cream. I highly recommend trying it sometime. Also melting down the reeses chips and mixing with sweetened condensed milk to make a spreadable icing on top is a plus! Thanks for sharing this recipe.
I made the brownies like it says accept i didn’t have sugar so I used splenda. These came out tasting HORRIBLE! Like pure cocoa powder and were basically cake like. I wouldn’t recommend adding splenda as a substitute. I’ll go to the store tomorrow and get sugar and repost lmao