These delicious Brownie balls are exactly what it says, bites of no-bake brownie batter balls dipped in chocolate. So if you love to eat the brownie batter this treat is for you.
Updated: 19 November 2020
Now, I'll be honest, making the brownie dough in one pan is super simple. But rolling and coating with chocolate is tedious if you are doing it for the first time. I've done it many times so I've got the hang of it (and you will too.) I'll share a few tips to get it hooked perfectly.
Furthermore, if you feel coating with chocolate is difficult for you and time-consuming then you can coat it with real chocolate sprinkles, roasted nuts, or coconut too.
Types of Brownie balls:
There are three ways to make brownie balls. I felt it is justified to tell all possible options before sharing the recipe. Actually, most people make these balls to gift or to treat guests on festive occasions. So you are looking for the best brownie balls. But the best is different for everyone. So below are the other options too.
Brownie ball with baked brownie: Bake a fudgy chocolate brownie, add cream to moist it, also add some good quality chocolate chips. Form a dough and dip in chocolate for a classy look. As simple as that. This is a better option if you have some leftover brownie and you can use it to make the dry brownie yummy with cream, condensed milk, and cream cheese.
Brownie wrapped around chocolate: Another method is to bake a brownie. Flatten the whole brownie without slicing with a rolling pin. Then wrap pieces of flattened brownie around the chocolate truffle. Dip brownie balls in melted chocolate and you are set. A bit tedious but totally worth it. Check here.
No-bake Brownie batter balls: The third one that I'm sharing is no-bake and pretty different as you'll be using brownie batter to make brownie balls followed by dipping in chocolate.
Taste of brownie balls
The taste! It tastes more like cookie dough. So well it is yum, I've found resting these balls for 12 hour works best as it gives some time to the ingredient to give homogenized flavors.
Tip to make Brownie balls:
- These brownie balls are quite forgiving and allow plenty of room for variation. Like you can add some chocolate chips, cream cheese, or creamy peanut butter to it.
- If the dough turns dry while rolling just add some cream or milk to moisten it and continue rolling.
- If your dough is too moist to roll, just cook the dough for a few minutes to dry out excess moisture. Although this situation is unlikely.
- Sweetness is controlled in this recipe as it depends on the chocolate you are using. So feel free to at more sugar as per taste if needed.
- Use good quality chocolate for the best taste experience.
- Dutch-process cocoa powder or Hershey's dark cocoa is recommended for this recipe. As normal cocoa powder tends to give a very raw taste.
- To keep the recipe simple, I used milk but heavy cream works best.
How to make Brownie balls dipped in Chocolate
- Heat treat the flour as consuming raw flour can cause stomach aches and infection. You can heat treat flour simply by dry roasting in a pan for 10 minutes to kill germs and remove the raw smell. Heat flour on medium heat and stir constantly or shake to roast evenly. Alternately, you can bake flour spread in a layer on a baking sheet for 5 minutes at 350 F to heat treat it.
- Remove flour to a bowl and set aside.
- Melt butter, chocolate, and milk together in a pan on medium-low heat.
- Add the sugars and let it melt too. Remove from heat.
- Now, add cocoa powder and heat-treated flour.
- Mix well to form a dough. If the dough is dry and crumbly add 1 tablespoon of milk. We want a moist dough as the dough will dry out as it cools.
- Roll out teaspoon-sized small brownie balls from the dough. If the dough dries out and gets crumbly while rolling add little milk to make it pliable.
- Set a baking sheet lined with baking paper. Heat chocolate on a double boiler or microwave melted completely. Now, drop each ball in the melted chocolate. Then lift with a fork. Try to roll the ball at the edge of the fork and wipe excess chocolate by sliding the fork at the edge of the chocolate bowl. Then gently slide the chocolate bowl off the fork to the baking sheet.
- Garnish immediately with sprinkles, crushed nuts, chocolate shavings, or instant coffee powder while the chocolate is still melted.
- Let the balls firm up in the fridge for 10 minutes. Then transfer to an airtight box. I've found the ball tastes better after 12 hours which allows all ingredients to blend together.
- Remove from fridge just 10 minutes before serving.
Hungry for more treat? Check these!
- Chocolate Salami
- Brigadeiro, condensed milk chocolate truffles
- Chocolate Coconut Balls
- Oreo Condensed Milk Balls
- Date Roll
Brownie Balls Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup flour, heat treated
- ½ cup dark chocolate , good quality (100 grams)
- 5 tablespoon salted butter, (70 gram)
- ¼ cup milk , more as needed
- 5 tablespoon white sugar, more to taste
- 4 tablespoon brown sugar, or white sugar
- ¼ cup dutch process cocoa powder, like hersheys dark cocoa
- 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
- 1½ cup milk chocolate or dark chocolate, for coating (150 grams)
Instructions
- Heat treat the flour as consuming raw flour can cause stomach aches and infection. You can heat treat flour simply by dry roasting in a pan for 10 minutes to kill germs and remove the raw smell. Heat flour on medium heat and stir constantly or shake to roast evenly. Alternately you can bake flour spread in a layer on a baking sheet for 5 minutes at 350 F to heat treat it.
- Remove flour to a bowl and set aside.
- Melt butter, chocolate, and milk together in a pan on medium low heat.
- Add the sugars and let it melt too. Remove from heat.
- Now, add cocoa powder and heat-treated flour.
- Mix well to form a dough. If the dough is dry and crumbly add 1 tablespoon of milk.
- Roll out teaspoon-sized small brownie balls from the dough. If the dough dries out and gets crumbly while rolling add little milk to make it pliable.
- Set a baking sheet lined with baking paper. Heat chocolate on a double boiler or microwave melted completely.
- Drop each ball in the chocolate. Then lift with a fork. Try to roll the ball at the edge of the fork and wipe excess chocolate by sliding the fork at the edge of the chocolate bowl. now gently slide the chocolate bowl off the fork to the baking sheet.
- Let the balls firm up in the fridge for 10 minutes. Then transfer to an airtight box. I've found the ball tastes better after 12 hours which allows all ingredients to blend together.
- Remove from fridge 10 minutes before serving.
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