Chocolate Brownie Cakes

These are some of the best brownies I know, whether you eat gluten or not, they're a winner. 

Makes 12-14 5cm towers

3 medium eggs

325g (golden) caster sugar

280g unsalted butter

150g dark cooking chocolate (71-72%)

100g cocoa powder (dutch/alkalised)

100g glutinous rice flour (sweet rice flour)

5g/1tsp fine sea salt


Preheat oven to 170C (160C fan)

  1. Place the eggs and sugar into the bowl of an electric mixer and whisk for about 8 minutes - until tripled in volume and stable.

  2. Whilst the eggs and sugar are beating, melt the chocolate and butter (separately) - take them off the heat when not quite fully melted so that they can finish melting and cool a little before getting mixed in.

  3. Weigh the cocoa, flour and salt into a bowl, mix and set aside.

  4. Once the egg mix is ready, add the butter and dry ingredients alternately (2-3 additions in total), whisking to combine between additions. Start on butter and finish on dry, ideally.

  5. Fold in the melted chocolate. If you timed it right and it's not a particularly cold day, the mixture in the bowl should be more or less the same temperature as the chocolate - that's something that will help promote that lovely brownie skin.

  6. Fill piping bag with mixture - if it's really runny (e.g. a particularly warm day), you can fridge it for 10 minutes to firm up a little. But don't let it solidify! 

  7. Pipe into well-greased mini cake moulds, leaving about 1cm of space at the top.

  8. Bake for 18-20 minutes (until risen and starting to crack on top), then leave to cool and set in the tins for 10 minutes, then remove (they'll still be hot!!) to a wire rack to cool completely.

  9. Delicious warm, room temp or cold. Alone, or with ice cream/cream. They keep really well - in an airtight box for 5-7 days, and they freeze a dream!