Once you've made a batch of Homemade Brownies, you'll never use a box mix again! The perfect blend of fudgy and cakey and jam-packed with chocolate, your family and friends will love receiving this one bowl brownie recipe (minus 3 ingredients!) in a gift jar for the holidays - or just because!
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword homemade brownies
Prep Time 5 minutesminutes
Cook Time 20 minutesminutes
Total Time 25 minutesminutes
Servings 9
Calories 332kcal
Author Erica
Ingredients
½cupvegetable oil
½cup brown sugarpacked
¼ cupgranulated sugar
3eggslightly beaten
2teaspoonsvanilla extract
½cupall-purpose flour
½cupcocoa powder
¼teaspoon kosher salt
½cupsemi-sweet chocolate chipsoptional
½cupwalnutschopped; optional
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly grease an 8x8 or 9x9-inch cake pan and line it with parchment paper. Set aside.
Combine vegetable oil and sugars in a large bowl and mix. Add eggs and vanilla extract, beating well.
In a separate bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa powder, salt, chocolate chips, and walnuts. Add to wet mixture and fold together until well-combined but not overmixed.
Pour batter into the prepared pan. Bake 20-25 minutes, or until moist, clumpy crumbs appear when you insert a toothpick into the center.
To Make Brownies From The Jar...
Combine vegetable oil, eggs, and vanilla extract in a large bowl and mix well. Add the contents of the jar and mix well, ensuring there are no flour pockets, but not overmixing.
Pour batter into the prepared pan. Bake 20-25 minutes, or until moist, clumpy crumbs appear when you insert a toothpick into the center.
To Create The Brownie Mix Jar...
Place a large funnel in a 16 ounce Mason jar. Pour the ingredients through the funnel in the following order, tapping the jar against the table to even layers out as you go: sugar, brown sugar, half flour + salt, cocoa powder, remaining flour + baking powder, chocolate chips, walnuts.
Close jar lid tightly, wrap with a festive ribbon and attach instructions: "Mix well with 3 eggs, 1/2 cup oil, and 2 teaspoons vanilla extract. Bake in a greased 8x8 or 9x9 baking pan at 350 degrees F for 20-25 minutes, until a toothpick inserted comes out with moist crumbs on it."