Birthday Brownie Cake With Red Fruit

This birthday Brownie cake is intensely chocolatey, soft yet fudgy, with the Chantilly cream and red fruit on top. If you are a chocolate lover, this new twist on the brownie is just for you. Yes, please! Give me a bite!

What a great idea to make Birthday Brownie Cake instead of simple birthday brownie bars or squares! It keeps the classic fudgy brownie taste that is combined with Chantilly cream.

This Birthday Brownie cake has such a gorgeous presentation that the dessert becomes a winner of any table once it is served. Moreover, this delicious dessert will surely please brownie lovers!

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• Brownie cake recipe
• What is the difference between brownies and chocolate cake?
• What is cream Chantilly?
• How to make brownie cake step by step
• Expert tips
• More delicious birthday cake recipes you will love
• Birthday Brownie Cake With Red Fruit

Brownie cake recipe

I adapted a Brownie Cake recipe created by the French chef Christophe Michalak. His recipe calls for twice as less ingredients to make the brownie than we’ll use here.

The chef recommends using De Buyer non-stick fluted rectangular tart pan * with a removable bottom – 8”x 3.2”x 1.1” and bake the cake for 12 minutes.

I used the regular size of a rectangular tart pan * and increased the amount of baking time to 20 minutes. Instead of making raspberry confit, I simply used raspberry jam/preserves. I also replaced muscovado sugar for dark brown sugar. And I omitted shoots of Atsina® Cress to decorate the cake.

It is quite debatable if this dessert should be called a brownie cake or a brownie tart. Yes, it is made in a tart pan, but it is crustless. It is decorated more like a cake than as a tart. Let’s just call it a Brownie Cake!

What is the difference between brownies and chocolate cake?

Chocolate brownies and chocolate cake have similarities and differences. They are both chocolaty and delicious.

The main difference between them is the ingredients used to make the treats. Brownie recipes call for less flour and more cocoa than chocolate cake recipes. That is why brownies have a more intense chocolate flavor. Moreover, cakes are made with ingredients such as baking powder and baking soda, while brownies do not.

What is cream Chantilly?

Cream Chantilly is the same as whipped cream. It is used as a topping and a filling for different desserts. According to food historians, the name of the cream – Chantilly – is first connected with whipped cream in the middle of the 18th century when the Baronne d’Oberkirch praised the “cream” which was served during the lunchtime at the château Hameau de Chantilly.   

How to make brownie cake step by step

To make the cream Chantilly, bring whipping cream to a boil, then remove from heat. Place loose leaf fruit tea in a tea mesh strainer * and infuse whipping cream for 3 minutes (photo 1).

Meanwhile, break the white chocolate into pieces. Pass whipping cream though a mini-sieve and discard tea leaves. Pour warm cream over white chocolate and mix with a hand whisk * (photo 2). Cover the preparation with a plastic film * on contact and refrigerate overnight.

To make the brownie, preheat oven to 340 F/170 C. Melt butter with dark chocolate (broken into pieces) in a microwave for a few seconds. Place brown sugar and eggs in the bowl of a stand mixer * and whisk for 2 minutes (photo 3).

Continue to beat and add the butter/chocolate mixture, flour, cacao powder, salt, and mix (photo 4).

Pour the brownie preparation into a buttered rectangular tart pan * (photo 5) and bake for 20 minutes. Take the ready brownie out of the oven, let it cool for 30 minutes (photo 6), then remove the brownie cake from the pan.

To decorate the cake, whisk the cream preparation to get the whipped cream or cream Chantilly. Dust top of the cooled cake with powdered (icing) sugar (photo 7).

Place one part of the ready cream in a pastry bag * with Ateco plain pastry tip 809 * and pipe large balls along the centerline of the cake. Place another part of the cream in a pastry bag * with Ateco plain pastry tip 806 * and pipe small balls on both sides of the central line.

Warm a watermelon/melon fruit baller spoon or a mini teaspoon up in a bowl with hot water and gently press on top of large cream balls. Drop raspberry jam/preserves into each second large ball (into their cavity) and decorate the Brownie cake with fresh berries (photo 8). 

Expert tips

1. Use teabags instead of loose leaf tea, but calculate how many bags you need to infuse whipping cream.
2. Make the Chantilly cream and bake the brownie one day in advance and decorate the cake the next day.
3. Omit drops of raspberry jam/preserves while decorating the cake. Simply arrange more fresh berries on top of the dessert.
4. Cut Brownie Cake with a regular knife, wiping it down after every cut.

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The recipe was adapted from http://madame.lefigaro.fr/. It was originally published in May 2019. The recipe has been revised to include improved content and photos. All posted pictures are mine.