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Passover Individual Brownie Bites

By Linda Capeloto Sendowski 2 Comments

I posted this recipe a few years ago.  Recently I baked hundreds of them for the Sephardic Tembple Tefereth Israel Sisterhoods’ Chocolate Luncheon that I helped plan.  Chocolate Luncheon 013This last week my recipe was published in th Orange County Register by Judy Kancigor.  Judy attended the Luncheon and did her own little taste test.

Yesterday I baked two batches for my Seders and froze them.  I am baking and cooking ahead since we are going on an exciting trip for a few days just before the holiday.  Bad timing , however never being one to give up a chance for adventure my husband and I are going on a Costa Rica trip.  It requires all of my planning skills to do this since I host both Seders here at our home.  So far I have made, these brownies, one brisket, one veal pocket, one texas smoked brisket, the soup, sorbet (mixed berry  with rhubarb) and mushroom dumplings.  Oh! don’t forget the Kuftes de prassa.pesach brownies kufte de prassa 013 These little cakes are easy to make, delightfully chocolate, dense, and fudgy.  I baked them in muffin tins with individual paper liners.  Serve them with a little whipped cream, some berries, and a bit of raspberry puree.   The recipe can be used year round by changing the matzo cake meal  to all purpose flour.  For year round use you can dust them with powdered sugar to serve. Powdered sugar is available for Passover, sometimes you have to hunt or ask for it.

Serves 18 to 24

9 ounces bittersweet chocolate  (62% to72%), roughly chopped (I use Schmerling’s kosher for Passover chocolate bars)

1 cup plus 2 tablespoons, unsalted butter, (2 sticks plus 1/ 4 stick) room temperature, cut in 1- inch pieces (use dairy-free margarine for parve brownies)

1 and 1/4  cups sugar (I use C & H brand)

3 tablespoons matzo cake meal

4 extra large eggs

This recipe makes 18 regular size brownies or 48 mini size using  standard muffin tins for twelve or mini muffin tins for 24 count.  Place paper cupcake liners in muffin tins.  Place a large glass bowl over a sauce pan with simmering water about 1-inch deep.  Make sure bottom of bowl is not touching water.  Place chopped chocolate and butter or parve margarine in bowl.  Stir until chocolate and butter are melted, remove bowl from sauce pan.  Stir butter and chocolate until smooth.

Combine sugar and cake meal together in a small bowl. Stir sugar and cake meal into melted chocolate until well incorporated.  Whisk in eggs one at a time until each egg is 100% incorporated.  The batter will become shiny and viscous pulling away from side of bowl as you whisk. If at first it looks grainy and weird don’t worry, keep whisking it will change. Once all eggs are whisked in, and chocolate batter is shiny, smooth, and pulling away from sides of the bowl, let chocolate batter rest for 30 minutes on counter.

Heat  oven to 325 °F .  Pour chocolate batter into prepared pans, filling about two thirds of the way up.  Do not overfill.  For filling mini muffin pans, I found it easier to use a tablespoon measure.  I also poured my batter into a large 4 cup glass measuring pitcher to pour batter in to muffin tins.  Bake brownies until tops are puffed, a little shiny, and cracking, 20 to 25 minutes for regular size and about 15 minutes for minis.  A tester inserted in the center should be almost dry or have barely moist crumbs on it.  Remove tins from oven and let cool and then, remove brownies from pans. You can dust them with Passover confectioners’ sugar, or serve with raspberry puree. Individual Brownies keep well refrigerated for two days and frozen for up to 2 weeks.Passover Desserts 005

 

(c) Linda Capeloto Sendowski

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Filed Under: Baking, Cookbook, Dessert Recipes, Holidays, Passover Tagged With: chocolate, dessert, fudgy, kosher, moist, Passover, Pesach, recipe

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  1. Sherry Altura says

    April 6, 2014 at 10:56 AM

    Linda………
    Made the brownies last night and many were snatched before I got them to
    the freezer…….delicious.

    A few questions…….
    How to keep the nougat fresh throughout Pesach
    How to store the meringues
    How many does the meringue/lemon ring feed.

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  2. Linda Capeloto Sendowski says

    April 7, 2014 at 10:24 PM

    Hi Sherry, Your questions are great. The nougat stays in an airtight container in a cool place with waxed paper in between layers. It could get sticky in the wrong conditions. Better still individually wrap them in plastic wrap like candy bars. The meringues will stay for a week or more in an airtight container at room temperature. Make them on a dry day. I put them in deep foil pans so they won’t crush and then I use heavy duty foil to wrap the pan tight. The lemon curd and berries you add after dinner while you set up dessert. Humidity is the enemy. The meringue pavlova with lemon curd feeds a crowd. I would say as part of a dessert buffet it works for up to 12 to 14. As a stand alone dessert I would say 6 to 8 pie shaped slices. I love that you are really going to make them. They turn out great and are not so caloric as some desserts. I always make several batches of those brownies! Chag Sameach Linda

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