Today I decided I was not going to be a conquered woman. My kids were harder to convince. I let know we needed to go to the grocery store. When asked what needed to be on the list I gave them the basics, chicken, heavy cream, beef, butter, milk, cocoa, bread, chocolate chips... I figured I would break them slowly into the fact that it was going to be day 2 of brownie making.
Once we started shopping my daughter put it together. She asked if we could do cookies instead. She is ever the politician. But, I will not be beat by brownies.
We get home and I ask who wants to bake with me. My son says, "I will, if Jasmine has to taste them." Come on guys it was not that bad. In reality it was, but man these kids are food critics now. One miss step and my kids are jumping ship. They were ready to call grandma for reinforcements on desserts. I was thrown over board and had a full mutiny in my kitchen. No alliance at all.
Batch 1 back to my basic brownies. The mix perfect, they bake perfect, while they are still warm we cut through the candied crust and enjoy the fudge perfection that is a perfect brownie. Once Benjamin realized they were amazing, he had no trouble sampling the whole pan with his sister.
Batch 2, not to be outdone by Mrs. Fields, I decide I have baked these enough I should be able to tweak them to make them even better. I be honest I was a little worried to have another disaster, but batch 1 gave me courage. So substituting milk for heavy cream, adding chocolate chips, and cutting back the sugar but adding more sweetened cocoa along with the dark cocoa. I baked in watching it very closly. 45 minutes later the kids, regained faith in my abilities, could not wait to taste.
I stopped them at one slice each. It was a brownie domination! So good. So chocolatey. So gooey. So perfect. So worth revisiting yesterday's failures.
This is what is left of the pan of batch 2.
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