Beating eggs for brownie

This brownie recipe (from this book) calls for eggs, beaten. I'm not entirely familiar with US recipes. What does it mean that the eggs have to be beaten? Is it sufficient to do this lightly with a fork or maybe they'd be better beaten using food processor?

Best Answer

The eggs should be beaten until roughly homogeneous; that is, there should be no "pieces" of unmixed egg white left. (If left in, those pieces would cook and harden, leaving you with, essentially, pieces of boiled egg in your brownies.) With some eggs there will be small strings of connective tissue from the egg that tend to float to the surface and appear as (slightly lumpy) bits of the white; these may be picked out with a fork, but they're unlikely to be noticeable in brownies.

Assuming you're adept with a fork, beating an egg or two shouldn't take more than 60 seconds.

BTW: In this recipe, there's no fundamental reason to beat the eggs before you add them to anything else. As long as they're thoroughly mixed in before you add the flour and other dry ingredients, you'll be fine.

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Do you beat eggs for brownies?

The eggs and sugar should be beaten just enough to break up the eggs and slightly dissolve the sugar. You can do this by hand just with a fork. You don't need to whisk the eggs and sugar until they have increased in volume, as this can add too much air into the brownies and make them too cake-like.

How do you make brownies rise more?

Beating your eggs with sugar until it reaches a pancake batter consistency will ensure that your brownies rise more. Alternatively, you can also add a little bit of baking powder to your dry ingredients to make your brownies rise more.

What makes a brownie more fudgy?

Fudgy brownies have a higher fat-to-flour ratio than cakey ones. So add more fat -- in this case, butter and chocolate. A cakey batch has more flour and relies on baking powder for leavening. The amount of sugar and eggs does not change whether you're going fudgy or cakey.

What happens if you over beat brownie batter?

Overmixing the Batter Overmixing allows more air into the batter, which will give you lighter, cake-like brownies instead of dense, rich ones. (On the flip side, if you do want your brownies to be cakey, beat the eggs more.)

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