Q: "What's the difference between brownies and chocolate cake? Texture, taste, method of preparation, what? I haven't tasted brownies before and too lazy to try to make one."
A: The critical difference is that brownies are unleavened -- they contain no baking powder or soda. The lack of leavening, and minimal amount of flour, results in a dense, chewy bar.
Note, some recipes do call for leavening and result in something that's really just a chocolate cake. I don't know why people bother to make such things, I don't know of anyone who prefers "cakey" brownies to "chewy" brownies.
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Comments: 5
Great answer. Thanks.
Hmmmm.... maybe I will try to make some brownies just for that chewy difference. For one thing, I have your recipe to guide me. ; )
Especially peppermint ice cream.
CW,
Brownies are like chocolate cake squared, and the recipe I posted is chocolate cake squared and multiplied by three.{g}
Donna,
Yeah, the additional flour and the additional liquid (which hydrates the flour) would produce a more cakey result.