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I have a confession to make. I have never got a brownie recipe right. Till now. So if you don’t trust me with this one I understand. But before you go away, just take a look at these fudgy, cakey, chocolatey homemade eggless brownies and tell me you can walk away from this deliciousness. I thought so. Since I have never been able to get brownies right, it’s all the more reason for you to know that the one that I actually post here will be fool proof!

The other day, Karan who is my boisterous, close friend asked me some technical questions about brownies. Something about making the cakey ones fudgy or vice versa. It’s real embarrassing for a food blogger to admit that they don’t know how to bake the simplest baked item in this world. I almost hid my face, but thankfully we were whatsapping. What can I do if those brownies are one disaster after another, and I had no hope with this batch too.

Icing on the cake, I was trying to master an eggless version. Ugh. I’m not too proud of myself guys, but it’s that time of the year. My Indian friends here would understand. So while all things animal produce are not to be touched, I decided I couldn’t make that stop me. And here we are. Some research, some testing and I think I’m happy. Because these were extra chocolatey, cakey and slightly fudgy too. That’s the combination I can’t stop stuffing my face with. Umm midway through that sentence I had to get up and break off a bite. Or two.

 

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Baaaaidaaawaaaaaaay I have more exciting news to share, apart from these amazing brownies. My new look — of course! What do you guys think? It was a moment of insanity and a case of massive hair fall that led to this desperate attempt at looking cool, but I think I’ve pulled that off nicely enough, don’t you? Denver absolutely adores it and can’t get enough of running his hand through my non-existent hair, plus zeeerrrooo maintenance. Considering how my haircare routine stops at shampooing, I’m thrilled with this! My stylist has reached best friend status in my life now, and you can’t borrow him because he’s a cutie and was totally game about listening to me crib about my hair for half an hour! I think I should make a batch of brownies for him. How did I not think of that earlier?

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Homemade Eggless Chocolate Brownies

★★★★★ 4.9 from 14 reviews
  • Author: Richa
  • Prep Time: minutes
  • Cook Time: 60 minutes
  • Total Time: -25981001.883333 minute
  • Yield: 8 -serving 1x
  • Category: dessert
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Description

Easy homemade eggless chocolate brownie recipe that even a novice can make. Perfect dessert for the vegetarian brownie lover.

Ingredients

  • 1 cup All Purpose Flour (or Maida)
  • 1 cup Sugar
  • 1/4 teaspoon Salt
  • 2 teaspoons Baking Powder
  • 1/3 cup Cocoa Powder
  • 1/2 cup Butter (melted)
  • 3/4 cup Yogurt
  • 1 tablespoons Milk
  • 2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract
  • 1/2 cup Chocolate Chips (optional)
  • 1/4 cup Walnuts (optional)

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 180C/350F
  2. Line an 8X8 inch baking dish with parchment paper or aluminium foil, and brush all sides with butter.
  3. Sift flour, salt, baking powder and cocoa powder in a bowl and add sugar to it. Whisk well and set aside.
  4. In another bowl, add the melted but cooled butter, yogurt, milk and vanilla extract. Whisk until combined well.
  5. Add the flour mixture to the liquid mixture and mix till just combined. Do not overmix. The mixture will be on the thicker side. Fold in the chocolate chips and walnuts.
  6. Pour into the prepared baking pan and bake for 40 minutes. Start checking if the brownies are cooked by inserting a fork or toothpick in the center at the 35 minute mark.
  7. Once baked, cool the brownies in the pan completely before inverting them onto a metal rack. Cut into slices and serve.

Notes

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  2. These were pretty darn good! I did have to make a couple of substitutions based on what I had on hand. I used vanilla Greek yogurt and vanilla creamer instead of milk. Since both these were vanilla, I nixed the vanilla extract. Next time I will probably increase the amount of cocoa powder; it just needed more chocolatey-ness (is that a word?). But otherwise, I was impressed this actually worked and tasted so good!

    ★★★★★

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  3. Hi Richa! Should I put regular sugar, powdered sugar or brown sugar? And can I try olive oil, regular oil or should I put butter only?

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    • Hey Ketaki, I used regular, granulated sugar in this recipe. I’ve never tried it with oil so I’m not sure how it’d change things but you can try it – you might have to cook the brownies slightly longer. I hope this helps

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  4. Hi Richa!
    Have you ever been able to get a shiny flaky top on these brownies? If I’m not mistaken, eggs play a huge part for that. So I was just wondering if you knew a work-around to that for the eggless version?

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  5. A late night brownie craving and and a lack of eggs in my fridge brought me here, i just so happened to have a few cups of red hill farms vanilla goatmilk yogurt in my fridge (regular yogurt dosent agree with me) and they just so happend to be 3/4 cup in serving size! So i made this recipe. My house smells so good right now😊 i mixed ghirardelli 60% chips into the brownie itself and topped it with Heath bar bits.

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  8. I tried this recipe today and it was amazing. I didn’t have yogurt but I melted some chocolate candies I found around my house added that with the butter before everything else so they could cool together and also eyeballed around 3/4 cups more milk and they came out of the oven a little after 40 minutes and were delicious

    ★★★★★

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  9. Best brownie recipe I ever tried. I followed the instructions as they are and voila!!! Though I used a microvave( convection mode) and I only had a round glass bowl but the taste and consistency was flawless, better than the brownie of local baker. So I can say that its a failproof recipe that came out just perfect in the first go. Thank you for this one.

    ★★★★★

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  10. Hi i was just wondering what yougurt you would use as im jot a baking type of person i bake every now and i would really love for my mother inlaw to have a brownie but she is pure vegeterian and doesnt eat anything at all with egg in it. And you wouldnt happen to have any other sweet eggless recipes would you?

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  11. Hi Richa,
    Thanks for the recipe. The brownies came out very well. Could you tell me how do you store them? Do they have to be refrigerated?

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  12. I’m a very impressed with your recipe! The first time I made it I didn’t have yogurt so I used sour cream, the second time I made it I only had vanilla yogurt. Both times the brownies came out fantastic! Thank you for sharing this great recipe! 🙂

    ★★★★★

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  14. Thank you Indeed .This is the only egg less brownie recipe that came out perfect.As you say its yummy too!Thanks again for sharing your effort with all of us!

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  15. Hey Richa, thanks, i tried your eggless brownie recipe and it turned out great. But I wanted to ask you, if I use whole wheat flour instead of all-purpose, will that be ok? Or i need to make some changes to this recipe? Thanks again.

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    • Thanks Kavita. I’ve never tried these with whole wheat flour, so I can’t say. If you want to try it, I would recommend subbing half the amount first.

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  17. awesome recipe…..My kids love this brownies with vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce
    thank u so much for this tasty recipe

    ★★★★★

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  19. Oh My God.. best brownie ever… I just can’t stop eating them…. Thank you so much for this wonderful recipe…

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  20. Baked this for my son’s charity bake sale. Had doubled the qty of ingredients, came out really well. But the color wasn’t dark enough – had used cocoa powder as suggested. Also they seemed a little dry. How could I get it darker and softer?

    Regards
    Mohan

    ★★★★★

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  21. Hi. I recently made this recipe and it wasn’t chocolately enough for my liking but it’s a great recipe. I was wondering if you could recommend how much melted chocolate I should put in it. I’d appreciate if you could reply ASAP.

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  22. Hey Richa, can i skip the yogurt? Because my daughter not like it And Can I change yogurt by adding milk?

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    • Hey Anissa, I’ve never tried it with milk, but your daughter won’t even be able to taste the yogurt here. If you try it with milk, do let me know how these turn out. It would help other readers too.

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  25. Thank u so much for such an amazing recepie.. loved it.. the only concern that I had was that after cooking n tasting was that I didn’t come out to be spongy. Moreover,the core contained sort of moisture. What could be done to get better results.?

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  27. Hi Richa ,
    First and foremost thanks for the recipe .
    Secondly , I never never get the brownie recipe right and trust me this is the first time i did and all thanks to your recipe.
    So thanks once again .
    Love
    Debolina

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  28. hello Richa,
    love your recipes.
    i tried baking your 40 min brownie. But, on cutting it into pieces, it got scattered. what could be the reason behind the brownie breaking/cracking in between.
    Thankyou,
    Radhika

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    • Hey Radhika, with brownies, I recommend waiting till they cool down complete or even refrigerating them for a bit before cutting into them. I can’t think of any other reason they might crumble.

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  30. I was so proud of myself when I this but I know all credit should be given to this recipe… This recipe is perfection. No fuss, easy and uses the most basic ingredients.

    ★★★★★

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  31. Hi
    Can I use regular dahi? I would really like to try this, but not sure if it has to be hung curd

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  33. Hi!

    This was a great recipe if you are looking for flavorless cake with a yogurt aftertaste. Our’s also did not last till the next day, just like Arpita’s, but it might be for a different reason. Perhaps a bundt cake pan was the wrong move… 🙁

    ★★★★★

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  34. Hi Richa, I tried this recipe of yours and it came out so delicious that those brownies didn’t last for the next day. I have been looking for the eggless brownies recipe for ages and I finally found the best one out there. I just swapped butter with a mix of butter and oil. But I am so thankful. Thank you so much.

    ★★★★★

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    • Wohoooo! I’m glad you loved these so much Arpita. I’m actually updating the recipe a bit to make it slightly better and will be sharing it on Friday with a video but this feedback means so much 🙂

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  35. Hi Richa,
    Can you post the grams equivalent for the recipe? Makes it perfectly same for everyone as not everyone uses the standard measuring cups.

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  37. Followed your the measurements in your recipe to a T and it came out perfect! It’s unbelievable!

    Tweaks I made due to unavailability. I used almond milk instead of milk and added 2 Tbsp more. Then topped with toffee bits.

    Thank you!

    ★★★★★

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    • Thanks for letting me know that almond milk worked for this recipe – it’ll be especially useful for any vegans who are looking for the recipe. Glad you liked it 🙂

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      • Yeah u can try cocoa powder , I tried many times and result was soo good.. follow..
        1 cup refine flour
        1 cup sugar
        1/2 cup cocoa powder
        2tbsp baking powder
        500ml milk
        1 pack of parle’G biscuit.
        Firstly pour and mix biscuit with milk, apart from theses mix all raw material (cocoa, flour, sugar) together..
        Try it. Tnx

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      • Thank you.. I baked a batch of Brownies in a 9×11 inch brownie pan they came out so perfect n yummy thanks a ton for the recipe it’s a life saver after series of faliuers in making eggless Brownies… Everytime I baked eggless Brownies they wud be either v gooey or v hard n edges wud be v crisp n centre wud be v thin.. I was tired of making eggless ones thn Ur recipe came to rescue m so glad I ran into Ur blog…

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  47. I wasted a whole hour and half of time because your recipe does NOT specify celcius vs fahrenheit like others have mentioned. This was a big bummer as dessert was late and most people I made it for left already.

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  48. Thanks for such a wonderful recipe. Got so many compliments and my hubby’s favourite recipe so far..

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  49. Hi, thank you for the receipe. I just tried it and my brownies have come out bitter. This is not the chocolate bitterness,seems like medicine bitter. Can you kindly help me with where did I go wrong.
    Thank you very much.

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    • Hey Shalini! Thats really strange and there shouldn’t be a bitter taste. Are you sure your ingredients were fresh? Sometimes old cocoa powder or baking powder can turn rancid, leading to a bad taste. Lots of readers have made this recipe before, and have always left good reviews for this recipe.

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  50. Quick Question – just want to make sure its 180 degrees as the baking temperature. Mine have been in the oven for over an hour and its still not done. Am i doing something wrong?

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    • Hey Janaki, yes the oven temperature should be set to 180 degree Celcius. Different ovens can behave differently and take longer because their temperature might not be exactly 180 degrees, which is why this might be taking longer.

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  51. I have a doubt. When u write sugar you mean the Indian granulated sugar or the American cane sugar ?? I have tried a lot of my Indian recipes with American sugar just doesn’t work so if you could clarify it would be awesome. Thanks a lot in advance

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  52. Omg! I never received so many compliments for any cake made. But your brownie , I can’t thank you enough .I was showered with compliments. Thankyou so so much for the recipe????????????

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  53. Hii Richa, wanted to ask you that if I’m conscious about my diet and want to keep the calories low which brownie recipe should I go for, gluten free or egg less?

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    • Sarah, I don’t have the nutritional information for both so it’d be wrong for me to tell you which is better. The only that I can say is that the Gluten Free Brownies are not made with processed All Purpose Flour, which in my opinion is a healthier option on it’s own. I hope that helps.

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  54. Hey Natasha. Walnuts and chocolate chips are added once the batter is ready. Sorry about missing them out. I have updated the recipe.

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  55. When do you add the walnuts? Do you put them in the mix before baking? It looks more sprinkled on top in the picture

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  56. Hey Manasi, I’m soo glad you loved the brownies. I know exactly how it feels to break a cooking curse – such a relief!

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  57. Hey Richa.. I’m so ecstatic to tell you that your recipe was so great that my records of unsuccessful eggless baking were all wiped off…thank you sooooo mch 🙂 😀 can’t tell u how excited I m ..it was my 1st successful eggless baking in my new oven. Lots of love yar.. Keep posting 🙂

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  60. Thank you for trying these out Uma, really happy you liked them. Adding more powdered bitter chocolate is a great idea, but did it affect the consistency?

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  64. I made with this recipe.. Only difference I did is added powdered bitter chocolate instead of Chico chips..came out bloody dark..:)

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  67. These are the darkest and the most chocolaty brownies I have every seen…lovely recipe…and I have to admit it is always a dilemma…cakey or fudgy brownies!!! I am in for any recipe that has no eggs…will be trying these for sure!!!

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  68. I think your hair looks great btw, I cut mine mid-Summer, less to maintain! I have been trying different brownie recipes, thanks for sharing this one, I am pinning it to try later, I love the idea of doing an eggless version!

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