The Key to Great Brownies Every Time

Dennis Weaver

The cocoa is everything. Grocery store cocoa: 8–10% cocoa butter. Ramstadt Breda Rich Dark Cocoa: 22–24%. That's why our brownies taste two to three times richer. Great brownies start before you open the mix.

It's the cocoa. You cannot have great brownies without great chocolate. It's the quality and quantity of cocoa butter that makes a difference.

We use fine European cocoa for our brownies. Most grocery store cocoa is 8 to 10% cocoa butter. Our brownies are made with Ramstadt Breda Rich Dark Cocoa, which is 22 to 24% cocoa butter — nearly three times the cocoa butter.

It makes all the difference.

How did we know? We ran five trials in our test kitchen to find out. Read the founder story