Homemade Brownies For a Crowd
These are Homemade Brownies for a Crowd made in a jelly roll pan (12 x17), a dessert that feeds an army. Melt in your mouth, chocolate fudgy brownies with a rich chocolate frosting on top!
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HOMEMADE BROWNIES
BROWNIE BATTER
Start by beating eight large eggs until pale yellow.
Then you will add four sticks of butter. I know. It seems like a lot but this makes a TON of brownies.
Whisk together the cocoa powder and flour.
Add it to the dry ingredients.
You want to spread the frosting on the brownies that aren’t hot but barely warm so the frosting kind of melts into it.
This makes 42 two-inch brownies. They are very rich so you’ll only probably be able to eat one.
COCOA
Finding the right kind of cocoa to use can be confusing. There’s sweetened and unsweetened, baking cocoa…you name it. When you’re looking for cocoa to buy, just look on the ingredients list and the only ingredient listed should be cocoa.
CAN I HALF THIS RECIPE?
Yes. If you don’t need a ton of brownies you can half this recipe and bake in a 9×13 baking dish.
OTHER HOMEMADE BROWNIE RECIPES
- Cookies and Cream Brownies
- Turtle Buckeye Brownies
- Zucchini Brownies
- Buckeye Brownies
- Lemon Brownies
- Mississippi Mud Brownies
- Lunch Lady Brownies
- Red Velvet Brownies
- Salted Caramel Coconut Brownies
- Chocolate Mint Brownies
Homemade Brownies For a Crowd
Ingredients
Brownies:
- 8 eggs
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 2 cups unsalted butter, melted
- 1 1/2 cups cocoa, (see note)
- 4 cups sugar
- 4 teaspoons vanilla
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
Frosting:
- 4 cups powdered sugar
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1/2 cup cocoa
- 1/4 to 1/2 cup milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a jelly roll pan (12 x 17 inch).
- Beat eggs with a mixer in a large bowl until a pale yellow. Then add sugar, salt, vanilla and beat for 1 minute.
- Add melted butter and blend. In another bowl, mix flour and cocoa with a whisk until well blended.
- Add flour mixture to egg mixture and mix until well combined.
- Spread into prepared pan and bake for 20-25 minutes or until brownies are set in the middle. Cool for 15 minutes and spread with frosting.
- For the Frosting: Blend powdered sugar, butter, and cocoa along with enough milk to make the frosting a spreadable consistency. Somewhere between 1/4 to 1/2 cup of milk. You want a thick frosting that's barely spreadable. Spread over the brownies after they had cooled for 15 minutes. Keep spreading as the frosting melts making it even on the brownies. Allow brownies to continue to cool.
Absolutely delicious! Made them for a large family picnic and got rave reviews. Be sure to use a HUGE mixing bowl—I thought mine was big enough, but it couldn’t hold the volume of ingredients, so I had to transfer everything to a larger bowl and continue. Made a bit of a mess, but the accolades made the clean up worth it. Definitely will make again, and if baking them for a smaller gathering, I’ll half it.
Oh man! Glad it worked out.
These things are yummy even if you open up the microwave the next day and see the four sticks of melted butter in there that you forgot to put into the batter!
Oh boy
Do you think it would still taste good if I omitted the frosting? Like to sprinkle on chocolate chips when the brownies are warm and they kind of melty
Sure but the frosting is so good
How many does the recipe make
It makes 42 brownies
How deep is your pan? Is it just like a quarter sheet pan?
Instead of frosting them, could you just sprinkle with powdered sugar, trying to make these even more simple because I need to make for 100 people
I am wondering the same thing, I need to make this asap for over 100 people, so I am making 5 batches but I do not have time to make the frosting or the supplies.
Sure! The frosting just takes them over the top!
Mine came out great but after some time and especially after being in the fridge, they got very dense and shiny, similar to the little debbie brownies. They were chewy and fudgy and I definitely do not want a cakey brownie but the picture of yours looks perfect with just a very slight cakey texture. Mine were so dense and thick. I don’t know what I did wrong but I thought I had to refrigerate them b/c of the buttercream frosting. So maybe that ruined them. It’s my first time making brownies from scratch. I have been using ghiradelli box mix for years and that’s what I was hoping they would be like so I did something wrong.
They are definitely fudgy. I think you did make them right.
first of all i need to know how much it make , its there somewhere please make it bigger thank you I am sure that it is going to taset good
Makes 42 two inch brownies!
Hi!! If I cut the recipe in half as suggested and bake in a 9×13, how long would I bake them? Thanks so much, I can’t wait to make these, they look fabulous!!!
I would say about 20 minutes still. I would check at fifteen minutes with a toothpick to see if the center comes out clean.
By change, have you ever tried freezing them?
BRownies freeze great!
Made these for a hospitality room, they were a HUGE hit! Your frosting looks like it’s soft, my hardened after it all cooled. Is that normal? Even though, I will be making these again.
It should harden a bit. My picture might have been soft because it’s Florida.
LOL! If I had run 15 miles – and I have, so I can say this with confidence – I’d have eaten every single one of those too. They do look delish. I love my brownies frosted. Pinning this for when I’m hosting a crowd or get my long run mojo back.
Haha hope you make them!
Faaaabulous!
I ate these all through my childhood.
I like to add walnuts and chocolate chips or some other chips, this time I added a bag of Crumbled Skor Bar.
OOh I like the idea of Skor bar.
I’ve made these a few dozen times over the past couple years. They have become a family favorite & have earned me quite the popularity at pot lucks (I always credit you!). Mahalo for sharing!
Yay! I love hearing that!
Oh ho ho–now those look beautiful. ;D
I always get confused when making brownies as to what type of cocoa to use. The kind to make hot chocolate or the unsweetened cocoa?
Unsweetened cocoa for sure!
I always get confused when making brownies as to what type of cocoa to use. The kind to make hot chocolate or the unsweetened cocoa?
Unsweetened
Do you not need any baking powder or soda?
Nope. It does sounds weird now that you say that but it doesn’t call for any.
I’ve made these a couple of times now. They’re great! Except the last time I made them. For a fireside. And forgot to actually put the 2 cups of butter IN the batter. I couldn’t figure out what was wrong with them–they tasted okay, just different–until I went to make the glaze and opened the microwave…there was the butter! Ha ha. I glazed them anyway and the next morning, the glaze wouldn’t stick to the brownies. Argh! Couldn’t take that to the fireside, so I traded family for some mixes for the fireside and we ended up enjoying the “ruined” batch SO much that evening. They were like fudge and so good with ice cream! 😀
These are the best brownies ever. I’d been on the hunt for the best brownie recipe and I found it in these. I don’t have a large enough pan so I half the recipe, add chocolate chips and pass on the frosting and they don’t last 24 hours in my house!’Â
Awesome to hear!
Those look absolutely incredible! Have you ever tried white chocolate brownies? They’re the best!
These look fantastic! Looking to make in a few months for my son’s grad party. When you say you can freeze them, is it unfrosted? I’m guessing it is. Thanks!
The 8 eggs is really blowing me away. I keep thinking about it. Despite this I am wanting to try these so bad. I would seriously need to give away 3/4 of the brownies though.
OOOH YUMM! These look AMAZING! Gooey and dense. Just the way i like my brownies…..
I’m doing the St. George one too! I’m just hoping to survive not make a killer time.
The brownies look yummy! What marathon are you training for? I’m training for my first one in St. George! It’s always fun to find another fellow runner.
These brownies look simply yummmmm!!!!! Beautiful pics too!
8 eggs?!?! How cow!
I suppose I will have to try these now 😉
I think you deserve a brownie or 2 after 15 miles! Wow!
They do look good. I’m glad I can halve or even make a fourth of this recipe! haha
Oh my, they do look dangerous!
They wouldn’t have stood a chance at my house either.
Those look delicious!!! Brownies make the world a better place! lol
can’t blame ya. these look fab (:
‘Atta girl…I would have done the same:)
SO glad you liked them. Your picture is fabulous.