My grandparents owned a bakery in downtown Stockholm for many years. We grew up with our Mormor (what we call my mother’s mother in Swedish) visiting us in the States and baking all her delicious Swedish recipes. This recipe is one of our traditional family Swedish recipes and one of my all-time favorite brownie recipes.

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Like many outstanding quality baked goods, there are very few ingredients, but the ingredients used should always be top quality. You will also notice that this recipe has no baking soda or baking powder. Many traditional Swedish recipes never used baking powder or baking soda.

Table of Contents

• Very Easy Brownie Recipe
• Swedish Brown Recipe Notes
  • Baking The Brownies
• My Swedish Grandmother’s Swedish Brownies

Very Easy Brownie Recipe

This is one of the easiest brownie recipes and is much better than the box brownie recipes. You do not need to buy the box brownies; this recipe is as easy to make as the box variety.

And it is so much fresher as it uses ONLY fresh and natural ingredients. This recipe has been used for many years, even before baking with baking soda or baking powder became popular.

One difference you may notice is that the brownies will not rise as much if they have baking powder in it. But they are still very moist and delicious.

Swedish Brown Recipe Notes

Good ingredients is the key to any good baked goods. Here are some notes on these ingredients.

• Cocoa powder – As cocoa powder is one of the main ingredients, you should always use high-quality cocoa powder. Hershey Powder is always a good brand, you can find out more by clicking here. Another good option is Ghirardelli Cocoa. You can find out more by clicking here.
• Butter – Use good quality butter. Do not try to use margarine or a butter substitute in this recipe. Whenever we can, we will use good quality European butter like the Kerry Gold Irish Butter, you can find out more by clicking here. If you can find French butter, President, we like that brand of butter. Here is more information on the President brand of butter and where you can buy it.
• Eggs – Use a good quality egg. Do not use any egg substitutes.
• Vanilla – Use a good quality vanilla. In the recipe, we have used Trader Joes Bourbon Vanilla, and Costco also has some great Vanilla. We recommend that you use real vanilla and not imitation vanilla.
• Salt – We use natural sea salt, so if possible, try to use good quality sea salt like this Celtic Fine Sea Salt is good, you can find out more here.
• Flour – Use good quality flour, like your basic Pillsbury Best All Purpose Flour is good. You can find out more here.

Baking The Brownies

It is important not to overbake brownies. Many people make a mistake: they overbake their brownies and then wonder why they are dry. If you want your brownies to be a bit gooey, then underbake them a bit.

The Swedes will bake these in small muffin pans and sprinkle powdered sugar on top of them. If you use small muffin pans for these, then cut the baking time.

My Swedish Grandmother’s Swedish Brownies

My Swedish Grandmother’s Swedish Brownie Recipe – Makes A 9″ x 13″ pan

Recipe by Anita L Hummel

Course: Swedish, BrownieCuisine: SwedishDifficulty: Easy

Servings

1

servings

Prep time

15

minutes

Cooking time

30

minutes

Total time

45

minutes

Ingredients

• 4 eggs

• 2 cups sugar

• 3 tsp vanilla

• 1 cup butter (melted and cooled)

• 1/2 tsp salt

• 8 tablespoons cocoa powder

• 1 cup flour

Directions

• Preheat oven to 325F (162 C),
• Mix together eggs, sugar, and vanilla in a bowl
• Then add in melted butter and mix
• Add salt, cocoa, and flour
• Bake at 325 F for about 30 minutes or until done.

Recipe Video

My Swedish Grandmother's Swedish Brownie Recipe

Notes

• This recipe does very well with vanilla ice cream. We love to serve it with our homemade vanilla ice cream recipe.
• Also, consider serving them with powdered sugar sprinkled on top and with raspberries or strawberries when they are in season; you can add a bit of cream on the side or on top of the brownie.

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