Starbucks Double Fudge Brownie
This copycat recipe for Starbucks Double Fudge Brownies is EASILY my all-time favorite. I am notoriously fickle about brownies and these are the perfect blend of cakey and fudgey. They are rich, loaded with chocolate, and have just a hint of coffee. You'll love 'em.
UPDATE January 2018. This brownie recipe has remained one of my favorites since I wrote it waaaay back in August 2012. It has remained one of your favorites, too! With the actual recipe I haven't changed a thing, but it was definitely time to update my hilariously bad photos so that maybe you guys can take me a little bit seriously. Thanks for reading here and loving me even when the pictures didn't reflect the quality of the recipe! If you'd like to see one of said terrible photos, just scroll on down past the recipe card. I saved you one.
What had happened was...
I have this friend Michelle at I'm Not Hungry, I'm Addicted who lives out all her sugar cravings vicariously through this blog. If I'm being realistic here, there are probably other blogs, but!! They don't take requests. So Michelle was in desperate need of a brownie, but not just any brownie. She wanted a Starbucks Double Fudge Brownie duplicate.
I am ashamed to admit that I had never ever had a Starbucks brownie. [Update: I have now ABSOLUTELY had a Starbucks Double Fudge Brownie. They ARE amazing. But these are better.]
They have seduced me with Reduced Fat Blueberry Coffee Cake and Pumpkin Cream Cheese loaves to my heart's content, but typically when I make it to Starbucks I just consume an absurd amount of liquid calories. Hellooo Mocha Cookie Crumble Frappuccino and Gingerbread Latte. But I take this kind of research seriously. Chad and I made our way to happy coffee mecca and I was totally prepared to order a very small (tall?) light mocha coconut thing with a side of 400 calorie brownie. You know, for educational purposes.
Except my Starbucks does not serve brownies.
Because they are mean focusing on sandwiches and banana bread for the drive-thru interstate traffic. Gah.
Just for that I ordered the biggest, full-fattiest, frozen coffee concoction I could think of. With whipped cream. Which may or may not have been a really great idea right before a beach trip.
I proceeded to read a bunch of substandard copycat recipes, look at a billion Starbucks Double Fudge Brownie photos, and read the ingredients provided on their website. Then I winged it.
FORTUNATELY, my momma's birthday that fell near the beginning of our beach trip provided me with a lovely excuse to bake brownies and not eat the whole pan.
But I could have eaten the whole pan.
Because these brownies are insanely awesome.
Which is an important quality, especially when the brownie needs to be worthy of my insanely awesome mom.
My mom still makes Easter baskets for all five of us kids. She still throws a family party for every one of our birthdays. She stuffs our stockings on Christmas and still hangs the ornaments we made in pre-school on the Christmas tree. She is thoughtful and adorable and so much fun. My mom stayed up late at night to help with school projects, played with us every summer in the pool, always made our Halloween costumes, and still worked more hours outside the home than anyone I have ever met in my entire life.
If I could be even a fraction of the mom that she is, I would consider that a complete success.
You can see why I needed these brownies to be phenomenal and amazing, right? Right.
Since I was unable to locate an ACTUAL Starbucks Double Fudge Brownie, this recipe is my guesstimation of what all the descriptions said it should be -- the perfect hybrid of fudgey and cake-like, moist, rich, dense, loaded with dark chocolate and just a hint of espresso flavor.
Amazing. Momma's-birthday-worthy. Brownies.
Totally worthy of Starbucks, too.
Starbucks Double Fudge Brownie
This copycat recipe for Starbucks Double Fudge Brownies is the perfect blend between cakey and fudgey. These brownies are dense and rich and have just a hint of coffee. You'll love 'em.
Ingredients
- 1 ⅓ cup all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 12 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 8 ounces unsweetened chocolate, coarsely chopped
- 4 eggs
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 2 teaspoons instant espresso powder OR instant coffee granules
- 2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chunks
Instructions
- Pre-heat the oven to 350. Butter a 9 X 13 baking dish, line it with parchment paper, and butter the parchment paper.
- In a medium bowl whisk together the flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
- In a small saucepan, melt the butter over medium heat.
- Add in the chopped chocolate, remove the pan from the heat, and stir frequently, until melted. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, beat the eggs and sugar until frothy. Add the vanilla and espresso powder.
- Pour in the chocolate a little at a time. This will help to temper the eggs.
- When the chocolate is completely incorporated, dump in the flour mixture. Mix completely.
- Stir in the chocolate chunks.
- Spread the batter evenly in the prepared pan. Bake for 25-30 minutes; a toothpick inserted into the center will come out clean.
- Let the brownies cool before cutting.
Notes
I cooled these completely in the pan and then lifted the parchment paper out to cut the brownies into 15 pieces. I wrapped them individually and then put them in a freezer bag and froze them a week before we left for the beach. The day we made sundaes I just set the freezer bag out on the counter and by the afternoon they were perfect.
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
15Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 455Total Fat: 25gSaturated Fat: 15gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 9gCholesterol: 74mgSodium: 130mgCarbohydrates: 55gFiber: 4gSugar: 40gProtein: 6g
THIS my version of how a brownie should be.
adapted from here, here, and here, but my FAVORITE source for this recipe is Joy the Baker's Dark Chocolate Brownies found HERE.
Here we have one of the original images from my Starbucks Double Fudge Brownies post. I have not a clue in the world why I thought that not cropping out my toes was acceptable. Obviously feet and brownies don't really go together.
I mean... every food blogger I know has set up on the floor for overhead shots of things. We are a weird breed. But food bloggers with experience typically know better than to include toes in photos, with or without a pedicure. In 2012 I didn't have any experience. It's ok. You can laugh at me.
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Maybe I will eat them WHILE getting a pedicure. Heather, you are a genius 🙂
I dunno, Deanna... that idea is pretty freakin genius! I think it was yours!
I think I need to make these. Seriously. And also get a pedicure.
I've never had a Starbucks brownie either, but I'm with you on the reduced fat berry coffee cake. Yum!
I need to duplicate the blueberry coffee cake!
What are your toes doing in that picture? ? I know you weren't at the beach yet because they are still in the pan, uncut;). Looks yummy! Can I borrow your mom to nurture the kid in me?
My toes are guest starring in this photo. The light that comes in through my back door is always really pretty so sometimes I set up my shots on the floor... I could used the photos without my sparkle toes, but they weren't nearly as much fun.
My mom is seriously the best. Everyone should be so lucky!
Ooooooooohhh, oooooohhh, oooooooooooohh, you're killing me!!
No! Not death by chocolate!!!!
http://www.starbucks.com/store-locator
For your next road trip...this will locate the brownies for you lol
Noted.
🙂
YAY STARBUCKS BROWNIE!!! You are going to make a lot of peoples days with this one lol I am just one of thousands who drool over these brownies!!! haha Oh and first of all there are NO other blogs in which I can live out my cravings on (or want to for that matter!)!!! Trust me this is the only blog I read for that!!! And this post is the perfect example as to why!!! haha A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!!! It looks so much like the Starbucks brownie it's unbelievable and I think you're so fantastic for putting in all that effort and research into recreating my most favorite brownie in the world!!! I love all your pictures, I love that you take us through the process of making them, it makes me feel like I made them myself and experienced them myself and that is what I love most about your blogs!!! It's not just a recipe and a picture it's the whole experience!!! Reading this post satisfied my craving for brownies and now I'm good!! I know that must sound insane to a lot of people but for whatever reason it works for me!!! lol And I don't put in requests to other bloggers...for the record! haha Speaking of requests...I bought donuts the other day (Boston Cream to be exact) and ever since I've been thinking about them...you know, just saying 🙂 lol BTW You're the best!!!!!!! Thanks Heather!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks so much, Michelle! Glad my chocolate addiction can be of assistance. I'm still totally fascinated by your ability to satisfy cravings by looking at photos. I'll work out boston creme donuts soon. Oh and mac 'n' cheese. Upcoming posts: baked wings, loaded potato skins, and this black bean pizza that Chad talked about for a week. 🙂 Oh!! And double chocolate grasshopper ice cream sandwiches!! I almost forgot those.
Those all sound amazing and delicious!! That pizza sounds killer, can't wait for that one!!! I don't know why pictures and stories about my favorite desserts keep me at bay but hey I ain't questioning it lol I'm just super crazy motivated! Gotta get my healthy on haha Thanks again for taking my requests!!!
Oh Heather, those brownies look perfection! And I should know, I'm a brownie expert...when it comes to eating them 😉
From one brownie expert to another... make these brownies!!! Seriously worth it.
You satisfied that craving quick smart, this looks like an intense brownie 😀
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Thanks!
These were the happiest, yummiest, most amazing brownies ever!!!!! They really do taste like something sold at Starbucks. Yay Heather!
So glad you liked them! I need an excuse to make some more 🙂
I see pretty toes!! Your mom sounds amazing. I often wonder where our mothers get their energy and drive to STILL do so much for us. And you have 4 siblings, I can only imagine how much what she does that means to all of you! Oh those brownies look decadent. Unbelievably dark and rich. That picture of the melted chocolate being whisked into the batter? I want to swim in it!!
The melty chocolate picture was my favorite one! The brownies turned out super super. I'm a sucker for a good brownie. And yes! My toes made it into this photo... I didn't wanna edit my sparkle pink O.P.I. out.
My mom is really the best... and as my own kids get older I appreciate her more and more everyday. I still have no idea how she does all she does...
It helps having really awesome wonderful kids! Thanks for these sweet words. The brownies were out of this world amazing! Like you! Amazing!
Thanks, Momma! So glad the brownies were birthday-worthy 🙂
Thank you thank you thank you for this!!!
Oh you are MOST welcome!