Weekend Baking

This is not the restart I was thinking of but instead of a foodie event, I give you a brownie post.

A few weekends ago I went to a foodies event or at least tried to. After missing two trains I finally got to the location to see that it was cancelled. This put me in such a bad mood I came back to my city and treated myself to a pizza. I didn't want to think of food anymore than that.

Brownie set-up

The weekend after I was back onto food thoughts and I wanted to experiment with making brownies (and blondies).
I had found a few recipies online and in my cook books that caught my attention with differing ingredients or different techniques.
My main goal was to get a fudgy brownie. I had family coming to visit and they also wanted brownies that were between gooey and cakey. So why not fudgy?

Brownies (undercooked :( )

My first batch was started by whisking the eggs and flour together for several minutes before adding in the chocolate and rest of the ingredients.
The batch looked great when it went in the oven and appeared good after but when cutting them they were too soft and didnt look like there was enough mixture. My thinking on this is I should have cooked them longer.

Blondie Batter

The next batch was blondies, done in almost the same way as before but I added melted white chocolate and white chocolate chunks. These turned out much better but more cakey. Which I prefer for a blondie.

Blondies

Blondies

We will forget the next brownie batch as when mixing the chocolate and sugar and such the sugar just wouldn't melt and I didnt bother trying to bake them.

I finally decided to try my Leiths baking book and their brownie recipe and it worked well. Nice and fudgy.


Brownies

I'm going to look more into brownies one day and throughly study the different ways, ingredients and outcomes. How can I make my ultimate brownie? I'm not sure right now but I look forward to trying.