February 2, 2025
Small Batch Triple Chocolate Brownies
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A simple and easy recipe for fudgy small batch triple chocolate brownies that serves 4-6 people
A deliciously chocolatey and easy chocolate fudge brownie recipe with triple chocolate chips, perfect for serving 4-6 people. Thick, fudgy and HEAVENLY.
Small batch bakes
So after posting my new small batch NYC chocolate chip cookies recipe last week, I knew I had to come out with another beauty really quickly. To be honest though, I have a few small batch recipes already on my blog from a while back.
To me, ant recipe that serves 1-6 counts as small batch. Some bakes are hard to make only 1-2 sometimes, without completely changing the recipe and then getting a different end result in flavour or texture.
My microwave brownies for two and my microwave cookies only serve two, so they count – but they are definitely different to my regular cookies and brownies (like these!). My cheesecake for two is a quick and easy no-bake dessert idea, along with my luxurious Lindt chocolate fondants.
As I have mentioned before, the reason behind my Small Batch Bakes series is because sometimes you just want to make a smaller amount of a baked good, you might not want leftover, you might not have freezer space for spare, and sometimes you just fancy making a lil’ something.
Brownie recipes
My brownie recipes are always super popular, and I have many. There are so many flavour variations that you can achieve in a bake such a a brownie, but I will say… sometimes the classic is the best; triple chocolate.
I have spent years and years making my perfect brownie, and I always adore baking the triple chocolate brownies from this blog – and I have made a few variations on it so far such as my biscoff brownies, and my M&M brownies for example. The thing about recipes like this, is that they are hard to multiply down sometimes, depending on how many pieces you want to make.
Typically, like most of my traybake style recipes, I make 16 pieces. Part of my Small Batch Bakes series, is that it needs to make a maximum of 6, if you are having a smaller portion. So even if you halved the typical brownie, it would still be too much for this.
Brownie batter
So because this recipe is designed to serve less, it follows more of a recipe pattern to my air fryer brownies where the method is ever so slightly different, where you don’t whip the eggs and sugar to a mousse. This is purely based on how few ingredients there are in comparison, but trust me – these brownies are INCREDIBLE.
- Chocolate – it’s always important to use the dark chocolate (70%+ cocoa content) in the base brownie mix, but you can use any flavour chocolate you want for the chocolate chips you fold through at the end
- Butter – you can use block butter or a baking spread for brownies – whichever you prefer
- Eggs – to reduce the recipe down, you use one medium egg and one egg yolk
- Sugar – I like using light brown soft sugar, but you can use caster sugar, golden caster sugar or anything similar
- Dry ingredients – I use a mixture of plain flour and cocoa powder, but if you want, you can just use plain flour
The tin
My typical brownie recipes bake into a 9″ square tin, and this makes 16 pieces. IF you were going to bake half of that, you would use a 7″ tin, but this is still too big for the ‘small batch’ sized portions. Therefore, I wanted to find a tin that I use in so many recipes; the 2lb loaf tin. It’s underrated, and perfect for more than just a loaf cake in my opinion.
I use this 2lb loaf tin in all of my loaf tin style recipes, and it’s so easy to line. It creates an ever so slightly thinner brownie, but that’s why they are then in larger pieces in comparison to the squares. How much this size tin serves, leaves a little bit of imagination, as I would definitely say four brownies, but some may say six – this is up to you.
Tips & Tricks
- This brownie recipe is based on a combination of my triple chocolate brownies, and my air fryer brownies
- I use this 2lb loaf tin
- I used a 70% cocoa content chocolate for the base of the brownie, and this really should be stuck to for best results
- You can use any chocolate chips folded through, I use all of them!
- These will last 7 days once made, personally I keep them in the fridge but room temp works
- If you DID want to freeze them, 3+ months
Small Batch Triple Chocolate Brownies!
Ingredients
- 75 g dark chocolate
- 75 g unsalted butter/baking spread
- 1 egg
- 1 egg yolk
- 100 g light brown soft sugar
- 40 g plain flour
- 20 g cocoa powder
- 75-125 g chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180ºc/160ºc fan and line a 2lb loaf tin
- Add the dark chocolate and butter to a medium bowl and melt until smooth - let this cool for a few minutes
- Add the egg, egg yolk, and sugar to the bowl and mix until combined
- Add the plain flour, cocoa powder and chocolate chips and stir through
- Pour the brownie batter into the lined tin
- Bake 16-20 minutes until there is a small wobble in the middle
- Leave them to cool fully and then set in the fridge for 2-3+ hours
Notes
- This brownie recipe is based on a combination of my triple chocolate brownies, and my air fryer brownies
- I use this 2lb loaf tin
- I used a 70% cocoa content chocolate for the base of the brownie, and this really should be stuck to for best results
- You can use any chocolate chips folded through, I use all of them!
- These will last 7 days once made, personally I keep them in the fridge but room temp works
- If you DID want to freeze them, 3+ months
ENJOY!
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I’m using this as a base for a chocolate brownie peanut butter cheesecake. Would this work as a 8″ round tin? Thanks x
Thank you for these, so useful! Will you be doing any small batch blondie recipes???!!xx
Hi Jane! Please can you advise how we can adjust a recipe for a 9×9 inch tin to a 9×13 inch tin? E.g. your original triple chocolate brownies recipe and the millionaires shortbread recipe? I would love to remake them but in a bigger batch 😍
Could butter be replaced with coconut oil? And if so what would the quantity be?
Thanks,
Dawn 😊
Have just made these and was overjoyed by the results! Chocolatey, fudgey, and so quick and easy to make. Thank you so much for the recipe Jane.
I love this small bake series – baking is one of the things that helps me when I’m anxious, but I usually can’t justify it as it’s just me and my husband. These recipes are perfect for me – I can’t wait for more!
As it’s a relatively small amount of flour, could I use GF flour instead?
For sure!
Have you got any eggless brownies recipe please
Check out Jane’s vegan brownies recipe