The sizzling brownie ....

Hello Friends. Hope all of you are doing good. I am back with a beautiful restaurant dessert recipe… The sizzling brownie. 

I have some memories attached to this one. I first had it in one of my team outings in Mumbai. Since then it has been an all time favorite of me and my friends… 

It was my darling nephew’s birthday yesterday. So, I thought of doing this wonderful dessert at home.. 

So what is a sizzling brownie exactly? It’s a mildly sweet dark chocolate brownie plated on a hot iron plate and some vanilla ice-cream topped over it. Fun begins when you pour the hot chocolate sauce over the wonderful duo lying on a hot plate… It sizzles :-) Nothing is more beautiful than experiencing it.. 

Of course, you get an additional brownie point, by doing such a special dessert at home.. 

My husband just loved everything about it.  And if you ask me about it, I would say “It’s such a wonderful feeling seeing someone enjoy your food..”

Check out the recipe here.

Ingredients: 

For making brownie: 

(Note: This will make around 11-12 medium sized brownie servings)

3/4 cup all purpose flour(Maida in Hindi)

Around 150 grams/6 ounce of chopped dark chocolate (bitter sweet/semi sweet) (I used Hershey’s bitter sweet dark chocolate) 

1/2 cup unsalted butter at room temperature (chopped into small pieces)

1 cup granulated white sugar(powdered)

2 tbsp cocoa powder

1 tsp pure vanilla extract

3 eggs

a pinch of salt

1/4 cup chopped walnuts/pecans(or any nuts based on your choice)

For chocolate sauce:

Around 40 gms semi sweet/sweet chocolate (based on your preference)

1 tbsp butter( chopped into small pieces)

1 tbsp light corn syrup (Skip it if you do not have it.)

1 tbsp whippingcream/milk (optional)

Procedure:

Let’s start preparing the brownies:

Preheat the oven to 350 deg F.  Brush some butter on a baking tray and line it with a parchment paper. (Use a square/rectangular baking tray if possible. That’ makes it easy to serve even square servings to everyone. If not available, it’s fine to use any shaped baking tray).

Baking sheet ready

In a sauce pan boil some water. We will melt our chocolate in a separate pan, over this boiling water sauce pan. 

Transfer the chopped chocolate and butter in a pan. Place it over the boiling water sauce pan. 

Melting chocolate and butter over a boiling water sauce pan

In a while, the chocolate will start melting. Keep stirring. Let it be an evenly melted chocalate. It will hardly take 2 minutes to attain this state.

Melting has begun

Melted chocolate and butter

Remove it from heat. Transfer the chocolate mixture to a large bowl. 

Transferred to a bowl

Add cocoa powder, sugar and whisk it well. (Note add more sugar if you wish. I prefer less sweet brownie)

Added cocoa powder and sugar

Add vanilla extract and whisk it well.

Vanilla extract

Add eggs one by one and whisk well after you add each.

Eggs being added one by one and whisked.

Now add salt and flour.Whisk everything so that things are incorporated well.

Salt

Flour

Stir in some chopped walnuts if you wish. Now pour the batter in the prepared baking tray. Sprinkle some chopped walnuts on surface. 

Bake it for around 25 minutes. Please note, you don't need the skewer inserted in it to come out totally clean. It will have a bit of batter clinged to it. Do not over bake.

Brownie ready to be baked

Remove it from oven. Let it cool down. 

Brownie baked

Brownie is ready.. It will feel little crusty on the surface.. It will be moist and soft inside. It will be easy to remove the brownie from the baking tray. Now cut a rectangular piece for our sizzling brownie plating. 

Brownie serving ready to be plated 

Let’s prepare the chocolate sauce. 

(Note: I made the sauce a little less in quantity for just one sizzling brownie serving. You can more if you want to serve multiple pieces at a time.)

Like we did earlier.. Melt the three ingredients chocolate, butter and corn syrup over a saucepan of a boiling water.

Chopped chocolate and butter for the chocolate sauce

The chocolate and butter will start melting in a minute. Keep stirring until everything is evenly incorporated. Add whipping cream or milk if you wish. The chocolate sauce should be of pouring consistency. 

Hot chocolate sauce

Take it off from flame.

Let’s start plating now. 

Heat the iron plate to a very high temperature. (Note: if you do not have a iron/sizzler late you can heat any serving pan to a very high temperature. I did the same. Just take care that while plating the pan does not cool down or you might not see the same sizzle effect.)

Plate the brownie piece over the plate. Place two scoops of vanilla ice-cream over it.

Brownie topped with vanilla ice-cream..

And pour the chocolate sauce over it. The sauce sauce when touches the hot iron plate, it sizzles… 

Chocolate brownie topped with vanilla ice-cream and sizzling chocolate sauce on a hot plate..

Enjoy the perfect combination of middle sweet brownie with cold ice-cream and hot chocolate sauce. Believe me it’s heavenly…:-)

Enjoy the restaurant dessert at home.. Have lot’s of fun cooking. Don't forget to post your feedback in the comments section.

See you soon with another interesting recipe.

Cheers,

Shweta