Ingredients
Method
Prepare Your Baking Dish
- Preheat your oven to 350 F and lightly grease your 8x8 baking dish or line it with parchment paper.
- Using parchment paper is optional and makes it especially easy to lift the brownies out of the pan once they’ve cooled.
Mix the Wet Ingredients
- Melt the butter and allow it to cool slightly.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine the melted butter and sugar. Whisk until light and fluffy. Add the eggs and vanilla and mix until everything is well combined.
- Stir in the sourdough discard.
Add the Dry Ingredients
- Add the cocoa powder, flour, baking powder, and salt to the wet ingredients.
- Stir just until everything is combined. Try not to overmix the batter once the flour has been added.
- If you’re using chocolate chips (highly recommend), gently fold them into the batter.
Bake
- Spread the brownie batter evenly into your prepared baking dish.
- Bake at 350 F for 25-30 minutes until the edges are set and the center is just baked through. A toothpick inserted into the center should come out with a few moist crumbs rather than completely clean.
- This is one of the tricks to keeping homemade brownies fudgy!
Cool and Slice
- Allow the brownies to cool before slicing.