My Chocolate Chip One Bowl Brownies 🍫🤎 recipe produces ultra rich and chocolaty brownies that are wonderfully fudgy, EASY, and no mixer required! Throw away that box of brownie mix and make these homemade brownies that everyone LOVES instead! Great for Valentines, birthdays, game day parties, casual entertaining, or anytime you need amazing brownies!
Easy Chocolate Chip One Bowl Brownies Recipe
- I love that these brownies are made in one bowl, you don’t need a mixer, they’re made with common fridge and pantry staples, they’re always a family favorite!
- This recipe is an adaptation of my Starbucks Double Chocolate Copycat Brownies recipe. Rather than making the batter exclusively with cocoa powder, I melted some chocolate chips in butter and mixed that along with the cocoa powder to create an super smooth, fudgy texture.
- I needed to bump up the flour content by 1/4 cup in order to compensate for this wetter batter. And then decided to add a bit of baking powder because my husband does not like super dense brownies. Tip: If you love a flat, ultra dense brownie, you can omit the baking powder.
Ingredients in One Bowl Brownies with Chocolate Chips
Butter: I use either unsalted butter or salted butter, depending on my mood. Some salt with chocolate is always a good idea because it helps bring out the best chocolate flavor.
Semi-sweet chocolate chips: You’re going to melt 1/2 cup of them with the butter and the rest are for sprinkling on top before baking. You may use milk chocolate chips if you want the brownies to read sweeter.
Granulated sugar: You need it to sweeten the brownies since nothing else is very sweet in this recipe – neither the semi-sweet chocolate chips and definitely not the cocoa powder which is downright bitter.
Unsweetened natural cocoa powder: Make sure to select this (basic Hershey’s or Trader Joe’s own version) and not hot chocolate powder or anything sweetened. You may use Dutch process cocoa powder, but it’s not necessary – and is almost always more expensive so I don’t see much point.
Eggs + Vanilla Extract: Add structure, volume, and flavor.
Dry Ingredients: All-purpose flour, salt, and baking powder which can be omitted for a fudgier brownie, although these are already very fudgy.
Note: Scroll down to the recipe card section of the post for the ingredients with amounts included and for more complete directions.
How To Make Chocolate Chip One Bowl Brownies
- Preheat oven, line a 8×8-inch pan with parchment, and to a large microwave-safe bowl, add the butter and heat to melt it. Add 1/2 cup chocolate chips and stir them into the butter to melt the chips.
- Whisk in the sugar, cocoa powder, eggs, and vanilla.
- Add the dry ingredients, stir to incorporate, and turn out into the prepared pan. Evenly top with the remaining 1 cup chocolate chips.
- Bake for about 25 minutes. Cool, slice, and serve!
Note: Scroll down to the recipe card section of the post for step-by-step photos and process shots of the cooking process.
Chocolate Chip One Bowl Brownies
Equipment
Ingredients
- ½ cup unsalted butter, (salted butter may be used if you prefer a more salty-sweet dessert)
- 1 ½ cups semi-sweet chocolate chips, divided 3 ways (in the melted butter, in the batter, sprinkled on top)
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- ½ cup unsweetened natural cocoa powder, (dutch-processed cocoa is not required but may be substituted; sifting is not required but if it's particularly lumpy you may wish to sift it)
- 2 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- ¾ cup all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon salt, or to taste (flaky sea salt sprinkled on top of the pan before baking is another option)
- ½ teaspoon baking powder, (omit if you want an ultra fudgy, flat, dense brownie)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F and line an 8×8-inch square baking pan with parchment paper or nonstick aluminum foil for easier cleanup and spray with cooking spray; set aside.
- To a large, microwave-safe bowl add the butter and heat on high power to melt, about 1 minute.
- Add 1/2 cup chocolate chips to the melted butter and stir to melt. If the chocolate chips cannot be stirred smooth, pop the bowl back into the microwave and microwave for 10 seconds, stop to stir, and repeat until the chocolate chips have melted.
- Wait momentarily (you don't want to scramble the eggs) before adding the sugar, cocoa powder, eggs, vanilla, and whisk to combine.
- Add the flour, salt, baking powder, and stir until just combined; don't overmix.
- Add 1/2 cup chocolate chips and stir to incorporate.
- Turn batter out into prepared pan (it will be quite thick) and smooth the top lightly with a spatula.
- Evenly sprinkle remaining 1/2 cup chocolate chips on top, lightly tapping them down so they adhere.
- Bake for about 25 minutes or until the edges are set and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean or with a few moist crumbs, but no batter.
- Allow brownies to cool in pan on a wire rack for about 1-2 hours before slicing and serving. I sliced them into 9 pieces but they're rich and decadent and you could stretch this to 12+ pieces.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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a new favorite !!! next time I will use 11×7 dish – it was thicker than I prefer and took longer to cook than listed but taste was GREAT – I used Butter with salt love the salt flavor it adds – also added chopped pecans because we love nuts in everything. Thanks so much for this recipe will be on repeat
Thanks for the 5 star review JoJo and so glad you loved the flavor with the salted butter and that you’re going to make again! Let me know how it goes in an 11×7 pan too.
These are so easy n simple and delicious. I just added walnuts and coconuts to the batter then sprinkled powdered sugar on top after they are baked – so yummy.
Thanks for the 5 star review Coleen and I love the sound of the coconut especially to the batter and then the powdered sugar on top after baking….YUM!!
Can I use cacoa powder for this unsweetened cocoa powder?
Yes, you want to use unsweetened cocoa powder. Sometimes it’s called unsweetened natural cocoa powder.
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I made these with gluten-free flour and they turned out just great! Will definitely be making them again!
Thanks for the five star review Patricia and I love hearing that these turned out great with gluten-free flour and that you’ll definitely make them again!
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Every single photo has a Pinterest button in the top corner. You can just move your finger or your cursor on that and save to whatever board you want. Every post also has Pinterest specific collages underneath or near the recipe card that you can pin as well.