How to make Chocolate Mascarpone Brownies:
You’ll be melting butter after which pouring over chopped semisweet chocolate in a bowl. The hot butter will melt the chocolate. Then you’ll whisk that collectively till sensible and smooth. Next you’ll blend in sugar and cocoa powder, then mascarpone cheese, eggs, vanilla, flour and salt. You’ll desire to make certain the batter is properly combined… and that there isn’t any residual butter swimming round within the batter earlier than pouring it right into a pan to bake.
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Ingredients
BROWNIES:
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter
3 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped
1 cup granulated white sugar
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 cup mascarpone cheese, at room temperature
3 enormous eggs, at room temperature
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/2 cup all aim flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
GANACHE FROSTING:
6 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped
6 tablespoons whipping cream
3 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into pieces
Instructions
PREPARE THE BROWNIES:
Preheat oven to 325°F. Butter an 8-inch sq. pyrex pan.
Place the chopped chocolate in a blending bowl; set aside. In a small glass bowl, melt the butter in a microwave, simply till melted- don't permit it cook dinner and bubble (if no microwave, melt quick at the range instead). Pour the butter over the chocolate and permit stand for 30 seconds. Stir till the chocolate is fully melted and the butter is properly incorporated. Sift within the sugar and cocoa powder.
With a wood spoon, beat within the mascarpone, eggs and vanilla, blending till smooth. Gently fold within the flour and salt.
Pour the batter into the ready pan and unfold evenly. Bake 45 to 50 minutes, or till a toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean. Place the pan on a cooling rack and permit the truffles cool 10 to 15 minutes whereas you make the ganache.
PREPARE THE GANACHE FROSTING:
Place the chopped chocolate in a blending bowl. In a small saucepan, convey the cream and butter to simply underneath boiling point, over medium heat. Pour this hot combination over the chocolate and permit stand for 30 seconds, then stir till smooth. Pour the ganache over the truffles whereas nonetheless warm, and unfold to disguise evenly.
Let the ganache firm-up earlier than cutting. It's greatest to refrigerate them till fairly firm. Once the ganache is agency and the truffles were cut, they don't have to be stored within the refrigerator.
Recipe Notes
*Look for tubs of mascarpone cheese (like the cream cheese tubs) within the gourmet cheese part of your grocery store- or in gourmet markets. Trader Joes carried mascarpone cheese at a sensible charge (as properly as sensible high caliber chocolate bars.)