Brownies with Cherry and Chocolate

Brownies with cherry and chocolate are very tasty pastries with a rich chocolate flavor, a pleasant cherry tartness, a crispy crust, and a moist center. The name of the pie in translation from English means "brown" due to its color. Cherry brownies are usually baked in a rectangular form and cut into squares, served as a pastry. However, it can be shaped into a round pie, which will not affect the taste.

Preparation time: 60 minutes.

Ingredients

• flour – 100 g;
• sugar – 100 g;
• eggs – 2 pcs;
• butter – 100 g;
• frozen cherries – 200 g;
• bitter chocolate – 150 g;
• cocoa – 20 g.

Cooking

1. To prepare brownies with cherry and chocolate, you will need the ingredients from the list. It is important to use high-quality components. The cocoa powder should not be instant or sweet, but rather require boiling, the chocolate should not be milk chocolate, but must be bitter natural chocolate.

2. Cherries can be either fresh or thawed, the main thing is to remove the pits from the berries. You can do this with a knife if you do not have other tools.

3. In a microwave-safe container or on the stove, break or chop the chocolate with a knife, add the butter.

4. Melt the ingredients until you get a uniform chocolate mass. Some housewives prefer to do this in the microwave; personally, I find it more convenient to melt the chocolate on the stove, it is not necessary to do this in a water bath, you can simply do it on the stove, just add a couple of tablespoons of milk or water to the bowl so that the chocolate does not stick to the bottom of the container and does not start to burn. Constantly stirring with a spoon, we get a uniform chocolate paste. Remove the container from the heat.

5. Add sugar and cocoa and stir until fully dissolved.

6. While the chocolate mixture cools, crack the eggs into a bowl and beat them until homogeneous.

7. Add the cherries to the bowl with the chocolate.

8. Pour in the egg mixture.

9. Sift in the flour. I recommend not adding all the measured amount of flour at once, but to add it in parts, mixing each well to gauge the consistency of the dough. Since the quality and density of the flour can vary, this, in turn, affects the thickness of the dough. The classic brownie recipe does not contain baking powder, because this is not a simple biscuit, but a moist chocolate pie; we do not need to achieve any special lightness in the pastry.

10. It is preferable to bake the pie on parchment in a square or rectangular shape, not too large, so that it does not turn out too low, at a temperature of 180 degrees for about 40 minutes. You can check the readiness of the pie with a toothpick. It should come out dry. But this is not an ordinary pie; in its finished state, brownies with cherry and chocolate should be dry on the outside but moist and tender on the inside. Therefore, it is important not to overbake it in the oven.

11. After taking the pie out of the oven, let it cool slightly and cut it into squares. You can top the pastry with liquid chocolate, syrup, or sprinkle powdered sugar, and decorate with fresh cherries.