It's as far a good start,
the typist (BeaPea) has a gimpy finger, the keyboard took longer than expected
to sync and has now been disconnected due to poor behaviour, and Guimauve
already volunteered to get out of Hera's way. Brownies are on the menu tonight.
Hera has made this plenty of times, so it should be an easy start... so we
hope. As you will see in the recipe, there are really no instructions to
this. So Hera has used her baking knowledge attained from our Home
Economics class in grade 10 to fill in the rest. Guimauve is decisive
today - she has already decided on making 1 dozen brownies and on a gooey
center for said brownies. Good job, Guimauve, we are proud of you.
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| Apparently there is 1cup of oil in this recipe. We may need a second concurrent blog about exercise, or dieting, or both. |
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| Dry ingredients are mix together first before adding to wet as per how we were all taught in our Home Ec. classes. |
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Hera has run away with the
batter claiming its propensity for messiness as the reason, but we may never
know her true intentions. Maybe she's just trying to keep us from screwing up
our first project. She just said there was too much flour, Guimauve says it
looked like caviar.
In an attempt to 'fix' our
boo-boo Hera added another egg, with shell, which was later removed.
There was a mumble from her
direction 'maybe it didn't work'. Good start, people. Maybe Hera should have
ran farther with the batter. Much farther. Her arm is also tired from stirring
the lumpy batter. As good friends we would offer to help, but I currently have
an open wound and Guimauve is busy manning the camera as our photographer
apparently has better things to do. Go Hera, way to take one for the team!
Hera is taking Guimauve
under her wing, young grasshopper is inundating the master with the enthusiasm
of a young child, comments like 'it looks sticky' fill the air. The batter is
finally ready, the muffin pan is lined, we are ready to go. We are using muffin
pan because Hera doesn't own a brownie pan, and she claims in muffin form, she
will eat less. The initial batter has been placed, and the dark chocolate is
being placed in the middle for resulting gooey goodness. Or 'coagulating
together' says Guimauve. Guimauve offered to help but has been shunned!
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| Despite initial difficulties, it looks like it may have worked out perfectly, there are a dozen muffin cups filled as planned. |
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| For the gooey centre, we stuck some chocolate chips inside when we were filling the muffin cups. |
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| Then we cover it with the remaining batter. |
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The brownies are in the oven!
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...15 minutes
later... The brownies are out of the oven for an initial check, they look to be
almost ready, the toothpick came out almost clean...but be sure not to poke
where the chocolate chips were.
Only 4 more minutes to go! The brownies are coming out of the oven for the second, and hopefully final time. We have confirmation, the long awaited lumpy, sticky brownies are finally ready.
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| Evidently there is an exploding one, why must there always be a problem child? Fortunately appearance has very little to do with the taste. They smell delicious. |
Hera is going to dissect
one to inspect its gooey center. She seems to be burning herself a lot. Perhaps
we should have let them cool... Success! We have a gooey center reminiscent of
a lava cake but in hand-held brownie form.
Taste tests confirm, our
first baking experiment has yielded edible brownies!
Final thoughts: Guimauve has noted that
Hera's last batch of brownies were more to her liking. Hera then mentioned she
may have substituted some milk for oil last time. We need to try that next
time. The brownie is also very dense, very, very dense. The top is nice and
crusty. It's also not particularly sweet, but that was what we were going for.
RECIPE
from cooks.com:
SUPER MOIST BROWNIES
Ingredients:
1 ½ cups flour
½ cup + 2 tbsp cocoa
1 tsp salt
1 cup oil
4 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
1 cup nuts
¾ cup chocolate chips
(optional)
Mix all ingredients
together. Pour into a greased 9"x13" pan. Bake for 30
minutes at 350° F.
FIRST!
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