Salted Almond Brownies Recipe

These almond brownies are unimaginable! They’re simple to make with cocoa powder to create an additional fudgy center. Then we bake them topped with a lot of toasty almonds and a little bit of sea salt.

You seemingly have all the pieces it’s good to bake these unimaginable almond brownies! They’re based mostly on our common brownie recipe, with over a thousand joyful opinions, and use easy substances like cocoa powder, butter, and sugar.

We based mostly these on my favourite chocolate bar, which has darkish chocolate, bits of almonds, and sea salt. Like my favourite chocolate bar, these brownies lean to the darkish chocolate and bittersweet aspect, which works properly with the ocean salt and chopped almonds.

Key Components

• Almonds and Sea Salt: I like brownies with nuts a lot! Walnuts are common, however on this recipe I’m going for entire almonds and chop them roughly since I like the additional texture. In case you’d choose extra finely chopped or sliced almonds, go for it. You may combine them into the brownie batter as a substitute of including them to the highest, as I do within the pictures. I like flaky sea salt (like Maldon sea salt flakes) however use what you’re keen on. When you’ve got additional almonds, make some do-it-yourself almond butter (which might be superb swirled into these brownies) or save them to make our apple almond espresso cake.
• Cocoa powder: Use any unsweetened cocoa powder on this recipe. I’ve used pure, Dutch-processed, and even uncooked cacao on this recipe. For a chocolate taste much like Oreo cookies, strive Dutch cocoa.
• Butter: We use 100% butter within the recipe. In case you use salted butter, pass over the salt known as for in our recipe under.
• Granulated sugar: This balances the bitterness of unsweetened cocoa powder. Brown sugar works in our recipe, however you would possibly lose the crinkly prime. It might additionally make the brownies softer and extra fudgy within the center.
• Eggs add richness and supply construction to the brownies.
• All-purpose flour: These simple brownies want a small quantity of flour for construction. We would like additional fudgy brownies, so maintaining the flour to a minimal helps. For gluten-free, many readers have used a gluten-free flour mix like Bob’s Purple Mill on this recipe.

The way to Make Almond Brownies

These brownies with almonds are based mostly on our fudgy brownies, which has a video, so for additional assist with making the brownie batter, I extremely advocate hopping over to our brownies recipe to look at the video.

You’ll make the batter in a saucepan, which means you don’t want a bunch of blending bowls and fewer dishes! First, soften your butter, then instantly stir in sugar, cocoa powder, vanilla extract, and a little bit of salt. This heats the combination, which we take into account the most effective methods for superb brownies. The sugar heats up, and the cocoa has an opportunity to bloom, which implies it is going to style even higher once you take your first chunk! I usually use this trick of heating cocoa powder in chocolate recipes (for instance, I do it when making these chocolate cupcakes).

After a minute or two of letting the combination cool, I add my eggs one by one after which the flour. From there, you’ll unfold the brownie batter in a baking pan and prime with a lot of chopped almonds and a sprinkle of flaky sea salt.

Bake the brownies in a 325°F oven till the perimeters are set and the center seems to be barely underdone. You should utilize a toothpick to inform when they’re prepared to come back out of the oven and search for a small quantity of batter left on the toothpick. And bear in mind, brownies proceed to agency up as they cool, so although they could look underdone, they are going to be good when cooled to room temperature.