Desserts
Spiderweb Brownies
Fudgy dark-chocolate brownies with a white chocolate web dragged across the top — the easiest showpiece on the dessert table.
- Prep time
- 50 min
- Serves
- 16
- Difficulty
- Easy
The easiest showpiece on the dessert table. Fudgy dark-chocolate brownies, a spiral of melted white chocolate, and one drag of a toothpick from the centre outward — that is the whole trick.
Ingredients
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Instructions
- Heat oven to 350°F (175°C) and line a 9x13 pan with parchment.
- Melt the butter and dark chocolate together, then whisk in both sugars.
- Beat in the eggs one at a time, then the vanilla, until glossy.
- Fold in the flour, cocoa, and salt — stop the moment the streaks vanish.
- Bake 28–32 minutes, until the center is just set. Cool completely in the pan.
- Melt the white chocolate and pipe concentric circles over the surface, then drag a toothpick from the center outward to pull the web into shape.
Why it works & making it ahead
Pipe the spiral while the brownies are completely cool but the white chocolate is still warm and loose; drag straight out from the centre in eight even strokes. Pull the pan when the middle is only just set — brownies firm as they cool. They cut cleanest on day two with a hot dry knife.
Cut with a hot dry knife for clean edges. Better on day two.
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