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Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Pâtisserie & Baking Foundations

By Le Cordon Bleu

Published 2012

  • About

The brownie is a chewy and chocolaty hybrid, combining all of the richness of a cake and the portability of a cookie. There are several competing theories about the origins of the brownie, with many attributing the creation to a fortuitous accident involving a botched cake recipe. The real story is likely that the brownie evolved from other similar chocolate confections of the early 1900s. What is known is that the brownie was created in America around the turn of the 20th century. The firs