Mejojac's Memos

The Great Brownie Experiment Yes. Yes, I did lick the spatula.

ANYWAY, yesterday I FINALLY got to make my brownies. And I think they turned out really well. I have a recipe that is soooo good! To me, they taste like brownies you get in a box. The only trouble I had was that I mixed them entirely by hand. So, when you see little white bits in the photos, it's flour that I didn't get stirred in all the way. But that didn't stop us from eating a bunch of them last night!
I did a little research before popping them in the oven and found that they needed to be baked at a little lower temperature than what you would normally use - 325 instead of 350. One pan of brownies baked for 15 minutes and the other for 17. I don't know why... they went in at the same time, same size of pan, same amount of batter in each cup... I think it's just my oven.
Another thing I learned in my research is that you shouldn't fully bake your brownies because they will keep baking in the pan! Which is why my brownies usually end up like rocks.... So, you should pull them out just before they are really finished. For the mini muffin tins I baked them till they were done and then popped them out of the pan so that they could release the heat faster. Again, the little white spots are flour... sigh... and all the little holes on top? That just seems to be how this recipe is. It's done that every time I've made these.

The brownies were a big hit! The edges aren't as chewy as normal brownies though, so, in that respect, I was a little disappointed. I was hoping for a bite of all edge and I just didn't get it. Perhaps I'll have to get the wonder pan after all!