Brownies!

The next recipe that i am gonna share with you guys is one of my favorite deserts of all time. I always bake for any special occasion whether its a holiday, birthday, or just whenever i'm bored, i bake. I may not be good at it, but i have a passion for it and always strive myself to be the best baker i can be and brownies are (to me) the easiest thing to make. The reason why its very easy for me is because i would always use a boxed brownie mix. Since this book has a brownie recipe that doesn't need any boxed brownie mix, i wanted to give this a try! Also since the holidays are coming up, why not try these out and make them for a party or a family event! Although, since this recipe only makes around 9-16 brownies, if you were to make these for party's i suggest doubling the recipe.

The ingredients you will need are: 

- 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar 

- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour 

- 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder 

- 1/4 teaspoon salt 

- 1/2 cup vegetable oil 

- 1/3 cup whole milk 

- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 

- 1 large egg

Directions: 

1. The first thing you will need to do is preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit grease a 8 x 8-in
ch metal baking pan. Then line the bottom and two sides of the pan with parchment paper. A tip that the author provides us with says to "Leave an overhang to make it easier to take out o the pan" (Pansino 30). 

2. Next, in a medium bowl, whisk together the sugar, flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, and salt. If you dont have a whisk (which at that time i couldn't find one),  i read once that a good replacement for a whisk is a fork. 

3. After that is all whisked, add the oil, milk, vanilla extract, and egg and then whisk that util well combined. Then pour the batter into the prepared pan and spread evenly. 

4. After it has been put into the pan, wait for the oven to be down pre-heated and then bake the brownies around 20-25 minutes. another way to know when the brownies are done is when you insert a wooden toothpick and it comes out clean with not brownie mix on the toothpick (Pansino 32). 

5. Finally, let the brownies cool in the pan and then cut into squares before serving and if you want, to decorate! 

Final Presentation: 

When i did this recipe, it came out with 11 cookies so again, if you were planning on making these for an occasion that you know has a lot of people, i suggest doubling the recipe. As you can see from the pictures, i decorated them but lets just say that my decorating skills were not the best that day. But if you were to look under the frosting and sprinkles, the brownies looked amazing! Also when you bit into the brownies, it was perfect! it was chewy but not too much and it tasted cooked and marvelous! one thing that was very tricky to pull of was the lining of parchment paper in the pan. If i was to be honest, i suggest you guys not use the parchment paper because its just too much work to get the perfect shape for your pan and if you didn't get the perfect shape, it would seep through and there would be brownie mix under the parchment paper and that would eventually get brunt. So what i would've done was just grease the pan and call it a day. But  besides that, i think this recipe was definitely a win!  Also this wasn't as time consuming as i thought it would be! I started this recipe at 8:30 and ended with the brownies plated around 9:30 so it wasn't a super long time. Overall this recipe was a huge success in my case and i encourage you all to try this out because you wont be mad at the outcome!

Question: What do you like on your brownies and why? 

Citation: Pansino, Rosanna. The Nerdy Nummies Cookbook: Sweet Treats for the Geek in All of Us. New York: Atria, 2015. Print