De-Mystifying The Brownie

De-Mystifying The Brownie

A few days back, yet another time, I heard someone say ‘Brownie is a cake that failed to rise’ and I felt, now is the time, at the start of my blogging journey to write about this.

So friends! Correction time! It is not because of the missing fizzle of the baking soda, or the ingredients going out of proportions that the

Brownie has evolved. Please print this in your memory once and for all.

As I started my journey on baking Brownies, I learnt a few things and the nuances involved in making these delightful squares of magic.

For starters, Brownie contents have substantially less flour compared to cakes and is always baked in square baking pans. Infact, here is one interesting article from the Nibble Magazine about Brownies that supports what I say. It makes an interesting read for those of you who would like a little bit of history and some lineage of Brownies.

The next big myth breaker, something really interesting – Unlike a cake, the consistency of a Brownie is always very dense and gooey.

This is simply, because of the chocolate content being high in Brownies. This sets them apart in the chocolate density. So actually a chocolate cake will not taste the same as a chocolate Brownie simply because of chocolate proportions.

Here is the list of ingredients for a similar portion of chocolate Brownies and chocolate cake just for a quick comparison:

When the Brownie goes on the table, it’s always a finger food and very casual. I like this!!

I see this from my own experience at home and at the Brownie Blues store. The conversations around Brownie moments are always fun, casual and happy. The spark in the eyes when a Brownie is mentioned is very easy to spot. While with the good old cake in most settings, we invariably reach out for a fork. Another reason I take the cake into the league of more formal settings.

So Brownie fans! Reinstating once again! A Brownie is not a cake that failed to rise. A Brownie is in fact, a dense and gooey chocolate block that has risen out of love and passion of baking and for the value of sharing magical moments with friends and family over a coffee

Enjoy your Brownie moment and share it with us too.

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