Tessa's Recipe Rundown
Taste: The stuff chocoholics dream about.
Texture: Well, that’s the best part about these brownies! Ooey, gooey, fudgy, with chewy edges. Gimmmmeeee.
Ease: Easy peasy, but you’ll dirty maybe a few more dishes than with a typical brownie recipe.
Appearance: I mean, c’mon. Who could resist??
Pros: Amazing twist on an already perfect brownie recipe. A little braggy, I know, but I gotta be honest!
Cons: Not even remotely diet-friendly. Sorry (not sorry).
Would I make this again? Yes.
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Oh my god, you guys. This recipe is ridiculous. Like straight up insanity. This is what happened when I denied a craving for brownies for a week straight. I suddenly found myself in the kitchen pulling together all the ingredients to make my Ultimate Brownie recipe (which took 6 batches to perfect) when I decided I wanted to switch things up a bit, kick the recipe up a notch if even possible.
I snooped around my stash of baking goodies and found a bag of peanut butter chips. Seemed promising, but I was nearly out of peanut butter so that wouldn’t go far. I had plenty of other chips and mix-ins but I wanted to do something a little more special. I remembered seeing something about adding sweetened condensed milk in between two layers of brownie batter before baking on Pinterest and was suddenly on this Ultimate Gooey Brownies adventure.
The adventure resulted in something so amazing and wonderful I just had to share as soon as I could. If you love chocolate, if you love brownies, if you love ooey and gooey, you’re going to die over these Ultimate Gooey Brownies. Don’t say I didn’t warn you!
If you make these Brownies, be sure to take a picture and tag it #handletheheat on Instagram. I love seeing your photos!
RECIPE UPDATE
Please take a look at the note within the recipe. After many mixed comments (some readers loving the recipe, others saying it was a failure) I went back into the kitchen for some further testing to see if there really was a problem. Unfortunately, I was unable to replicate the bad results however I’ve made some changes to the recipe detailed in the notes that should fix any problems that folks might be having. Thanks for all the feedback friends, my goal is to always share the best recipes possible and I couldn’t do it without you!
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Ultimate Brownies (the original!)
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Ingredients
- 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips, divided
- 1 1/2 sticks (6 ounces) unsalted butter, cut into pieces
- 4 ounces unsweetened chocolate, chopped
- 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
- 3 large eggs plus 1 egg yolk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon fine sea salt
- 3/4 cup sweetened condensed milk
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line an 8×8-inch baking pan with foil and spray with nonstick cooking spray.
- In a large microwave-safe bowl, combine 1 cup chocolate chips, butter, and unsweetened chocolate. Heat in the microwave for 1 minute then stir. Continue heating in 30-second bursts, stirring between each burst, until the mixture is melted and smooth but not scorched. Remove from the microwave and let cool slightly.
- In a large bowl, use an electric mixer to beat the eggs and sugar on medium-high speed until light and thick, about 3 minutes. Beat in the vanilla extract. Stir in the cooled chocolate mixture with a rubber spatula. Add the flour and salt, folding gently until well combined. Pour half of the batter into the prepared baking pan. Bake for 10 minutes.
- Sprinkle with the remaining cup of chocolate chips and pour the sweetened condensed milk over the top. Pour the remaining batter over. Return to oven and bake for about 35 minutes, or until a tester comes out with moist crumbs still attached. Do not overbake. Let cool to room temperature then place in the fridge to chill. The brownies are easiest to cut when chilled and can be served chilled, at room temperature, or warmed in the microwave.
So I ended up with a bunch of condensed coconut milk, don’t really care for tres leches cake, so I ended up finding this dessert. I didn’t end up with a visibly defined layer of the condensed milk, but these babies were delicious! A little of the milk bubbled up and caramelized, giving a nice toasted marshmallow flavor.
Sorry! I now saw where i was suppose to use the chocolate. My bad!
Hi!
Tried the recipe today for me to bring to work tomorrow. They turned out very good. So thank you! Anyways, in the ingredient list it says both 2 cups chocolate chips and then 4 ounces chocolate chips a bit down the list, but in the directions the 4 ounces are not mentioned. Where do you use those 4 ounces? I did not use them and ended up with left over chocolate chips that confused me. However i now have chocolate that i can snack on 😉
I had a slight baking fail with this – my fault I had the oven too low so underbaked it 🙁 But it still tasted A-FREAKIN-MAZING!! The condensed milk kind of mixed into the batter a bit so made it even gooier. I can’t wait to try it out again and get it right
love love love!!!! The best brownie recipe…..thanks for the recipe…..will be making this over and over again.
AMAZING. Sweetened condensed milk is so under used in desserts.
Hi, this looks incredible! I’m hoping to make it tomorrow for my Friday night treat! Just a question, I want to use a block of chocolate instead of chocolate chips…what would the conversion be in grams? Thanks!
I followed the recipe and it worked just fine!! Not sure why everyone is having problems.
Followed directions exactly and it was a chocolate liquid mess. Wish I would have read the reviews first! Ugh!
I made this today and on reading the comment from Allison, I decided to bake the bottom batter for 10 minutes first and then add the chocolate chips, condensed milk and the remaining batter. Baked it for around 45 minutes after and they came out perfect! Although the condensed milk didn’t ooze out like in the picture, it tasted wonderful! Thank you 🙂
Wish I would have read the comments before wasting all these ingredients. The whole mess went straight into the garbage. Do not waste your time with this recipe.
Same happened to me. it looked like something I had scraped off the bottom of a lake.
These totally flopped. The sweetened condensed milk sank to the bottom and did not ooze out beautifully like the pictures. It took nearly an hour to get them baked all the way through. I’m totally disappointed by this recipe.
I was making it for our small group and wanted them just like your pictures show.
No cigar.
Total Pinterest fail.