Whoops


Um, that would explain it...

My little bro Swampytad blagged (blog brag) extensively about his wife's brownies. He even used them in a competition. Yours truly, Queen of the Boxed Brownie Mix, thought it wouldn't hurt to maybe make homemade brownies once in my life, especially if they were as good as the boy claimed, and I know his wife for a killer cook. She's lucky we don't descend on NOLA about twice a year just to have her feed us! So I emailed Mrs. Swampy and wheedled it out of her. It's from her mama's side of the family and I don't have permission to print it, sorry.

I finally got around to purchasing the things I needed for it but didn't already have (Ghirardelli cocoa, dark Karo) and yesterday I mixed up a double batch right before the kids got home from school. We had them for dessert after supper.

I thought they were good, but not outstanding. I tried to decide what wasn't quite working for me; thought to myself that next time I'd mix them by hand rather than with the electric mixer because hey, even though the recipe says it's ok, you just don't beat brownies. I pondered and I pondered, and just before I fell asleep I realized:

I left out the oil. ONE WHOLE CUP OF OIL.

I was trying to make them using just one bowl, and went with mixing up the dry ingredients and then adding the wet ones and the sugar like all the telly cooks tell you to do over and over. But the oil was the first ingredient listed, and because I was measuring and mixing and talking to Daughter all at the same time, once I got the dry ingredients mixed together I just carried on down the ingredient list from where I'd stopped. This sort of thing has happened before, when I left half the flour out of a toffee cookie recipe the first time I made it. (They spread a bit, they did.)

We'll be trying this one again, after I get some more Ghirardelli 60%-cocoa chocolate chips.

P.S. When I announced what I'd done, Hubs kindly said, "So, you made the low-fat version."

Posted: Fri - May 18, 2007 at 12:19 PM   Home         | | View Technorati reactions

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