Hi Bold Bakers!
Easter is about bringing the family together and I can't think of a better way to do that
than with chocolate.
I'm really proud to be partnering with Ghirardelli chocolate again who makes life a bite better.
For this holiday season I'm gonna share with you a recipe for an incredible 5 ingredient
brownie roll, guaranteed to be the star of the show.
As always the recipe can be found on BiggerBoldreBaking.com and make sure you head over to my website
because ill have all of the information about the chocolate that I use over there.
Okay, let's get started.
Okay the hero here like I said is chocolate, now here I have some Ghirardelli 60% bittersweet
chocolate chips.
You know watching Bigger Bolder Baking that I love these guys.
So what you want to do is just add these into your bowl.
So you heard me preach this before, but using good quality chocolate like Ghirardelli in
your recipes will take your dessert from great to extraordinary.
Okay lovely and now next we're going to add in a little bit of water and this just helps
it melt and makes it easier to work with.
So now what we want to do here is melt this chocolate, you can do it in the microwave
or you can do it over a Bain-Marie.
Just take care and do it quite gently because you don't want your chocolate to burn.
So this only took around a minute now the reason you do this first is because you want
to make sure that it is nice and cool before you add it into the rest of the ingredients.
So I'm gonna set this over to the side, and I'm gonna get started on making the rest of
our brownie roll.
So the first thing we're gonna do is whip up our eggs.
Now if these guys are at room temperature they'll whip up so much better.
Now for those of you who don't eat eggs unfortunately you cant substitute them in this recipe, they're
a really important ingredient.
So now what you want to do is turn your mixer on to like medium high speed and let these
whip up really well so it'll take around 3 minutes or so.
You want to get it nice and thick before we add in our next ingredient.
So this has gotten nice and thick, now at this point we're going to add in our sugar
now what you want to do here is stream in your sugar nice and slowly.
If you dump all your sugar in at once it will deflate your eggs.
So just do a little bit at a time, and let it drizzle in there.
And then after around 3-4 minutes you're going to see it get nice and really thick.
So my sugar is in there now I'm gonna let this whip up until it get really lovely and
thick.
So like I said earlier this is a 5 ingredient brownie roll, really simple, just a few ingredients,
one ingredient you don't need is flour, so this actually makes a really great Passover
dessert as well.
So the reason that we're getting these eggs so thick is because the air in these eggs
is actually what's going to raise our cake, like I said there's no flour and there's no
raising agent, so you need to get these lovely and thick to get a nice puffy cake.
So this is exactly where I want it so I'm gonna turn down the machine a little bit,
and I'm gonna add in my cool melted chocolate.
So while that chocolate is mixing in I'm gonna add my last ingredient, which is Ghirardelli
semisweet chocolate chips.
Because this is a brownie roll you gotta have chocolate chips.
So this is all mixed up it's looking good, you will notice that it deflates a little
bit, that happens when you add in the chocolate, don't worry about it.
For right now I'm gonna turn this off the machine, and we're gonna get it into our baking
tray.
So here I have a 10in x 15in tray, this is perfect for making a roulade and it's nice
and big so it'll probably feed I'd say around 10 people or so.
Now as you can see I've lined it with parchment paper.
The thing about this dessert is that you need that extra bit of parchment paper because
we're gonna need that to roll the dessert later.
So make your sheet nice and big.
So here I have my big bowl of brownie batter, smells so good, look at how bubbly and delicious
it is.
So all you want to do is just pour this onto your tray.
The good thing about these batters is they kind of find their own way around, it'll even
out and get nice and thin.
If you want to give it a little bit of a helping hand, just spread it out with your spatula.
Until it reaches the corners.
Gorgeous.
So I have a few extra chocolate chips right here and all I'm gonna do is just sprinkle
them over the top of our brownie roll, just to make it a little bit extra.
Perfection so as quick as this was to make it actually bakes in less time.
So bake your brownie roll off at 350°F/180°C for roughly around 15-18 minutes, it really
takes so little time to bake.
So I'm really happy with how our brownie roll looks.
You can tell that it's done because if you push down in the middle it's kinda firm underneath
your finger, and it's lovely and brown all the way around this is fantastic, I did notice
that our chocolate chips took a little bit of a swim into the roll but that's okay just
means that there's more chocolate on the inside so I'm okay with that.
So what I'm gonna do is just set this over to the side let it cool down only for around
3 minutes and then I'm gonna show you a really great trick.
So this trick is about rolling the cake.
Now what you want to do while it's still warm don't let it get too cold, is take that bit
of parchment that you have extra, and start to roll your cake.
Very carefully, go slowly, and start to roll it up.
And what we're going to do is kind of mock roll it so when you go to roll it later when
it's cold, it will have that muscle memory of being rolled up and it will roll up so
much better.
And then very carefully unroll it.
So this will just ensure that your cake doesn't totally crack later on.
Cracks are okay with these cake, it's part of their charm, you just want to try and prevent
them as much as you can.
So as you can see it did crackle on top, I'm totally fine with that, it's gonna look beautiful,
I'm gonna set this over to the side and let it cool down a little bit longer.
So it's been a few minutes and my cake has cooled down so this is my next trick, what
you want to do is lay a nice clean tea towel over the top of your cake.
And then we're gonna take a cooling rack and lay that on top.
So this is where you have to be pretty swift what we're going to do now is flip the whole
thing over.
1, 2, 3.
Like that.
So you'll see in a minute the reason why I flipped this over, for right now you just
wanna take off your baking tray, and then carefully peel back the parchment paper.
Now take your time, go easy because you don't want to pull up any cake with it.
Aha!
Look it, I see the chocolate chips, there you are.
They were supposed to be on the top not on the bottom.
And then very carefully lastly we're just going to slide out the cooling rack from underneath.
Perfect.
So now the reason for that big hullabaloo was because we actually fill this side of
the cake we don't fill the other side because the other side is our presentation side it
has all those lovely cracks on it, it's going to look really good.
So right now we're gonna fill this guy with a little bit of whipped cream.
So a bit of advice when filling your brownie roll less is more, so I'm gonna put on some
whipped cream.
I'm just not gonna put too much you don't want it too thick and I'll tell you why.
Once you go to roll this all up it'll get bigger and bigger and bigger which sounds
delicious, but you don't want it to be monstrous so just put a little bit of cream.
Perfect.
And what you want to do is just spread it almost to the edge, leave a little bit of
space.
Nice.
Now, for the rolling.
So this is the part where you have to hold your nerve, this is the rolling and this is
where the tea towel comes in really handy, what you want to do is just carefully start
to roll, moving the tea towel around and letting the cake fall over itself.
Now if you're seeing any cracks don't worry, that's totally fine we'll cover those up.
And then you want to finish it on its seam, just so it all stays together.
So I moved my brownie roll very carefully onto my platter, sometimes this is two-man
job Olivia had to come in here and help me, so just take care when you're doing it.
So when serving these roll cakes what I like to do is just slice a little bit off each
end, the reason that I do this is so it'll fit on your platter beautifully, then also
you can see really clearly what's on the inside.
Then just tidy around the platter and make sure you keep those bits, those bits are for
the cook.
Now the next thing we're gonna do is garnish this bad boy.
Here I have some chocolate ganache you can also use chocolate sauce, melted chocolate,
whatever you like.
I'm just going to drizzle this very carefully over the roll.
Now there's two reasons that we do this it's gonna add another layer of chocolate and a
nice different texture also it's gonna cover over any cracks that we want to hide.
So, drizzle over, fill in any holes, and make it look beautiful.
Gorgeous.
Such a simple way to decorate a cake beautifully.
So I have a little bit of leftover whipped cream so I'm just gonna pipe a few rosettes
on top.
Right down the middle.
So this dessert is for the whole family to enjoy so I've got the perfect thing to top
it off with, here I have some Ghirardelli dark chocolate sea salt caramel eggs and some
Ghirardelli milk chocolate caramel bunnies, perfect for this dessert and all I'm gonna
do is just unwrap these and I'm gonna put some in the cream, to hold them up, and the
kind of mark a slice so everybody gets a chocolate and they get a slice.
Gorgeous.
I like to go between bunnies and eggs you can choose whichever ones that you like.
So there you go, and amazing show stopping Easter dessert for the whole entire family,
I think I'm gonna have to bring it over to my table.
I set this brunch table to share this dessert with everyone.
Make this brownie roll a part of your Easter celebration this year.
So while my friends and family are in the other room enjoying I snuck in here because
sometimes the chef doesn't actually get to taste any.
It all goes by so quickly and I forget to enjoy it myself.
Oh man.
It's really hard to believe that with just 5 ingredient, some incredible chocolate, and
a little bit of creativity you can make this show stopping dessert.
Without a doubt this is gonna be a fan favorite this Easter.
A huge thank you Ghirardelli for sponsoring this video, it definitely makes life a bite
better.
Thank you so much and I'll see you back here really soon for more Bigger Bolder Baking.