Recipe #1: Brooke's Best Bombshell Brownies

Recipe number 1 comes from allrecipes.com.  I love this website because I can search for new recipes and save them in my own personal recipe box without having to have a stack of recipe books lying around my house.

Brooke's Best Bombshell Brownies attracted my attention because it makes a 9x13 pan of brownies.  The simple list of ingredients also lead me to try this one first because I did not have to go to the store before making the treat.

I will admit that I had to make one ingredient substitution.  I did not have any semi-sweet chocolate chips in the house, so I chopped up some squares of semi-sweet chocolate instead.

I don't think one can go wrong with a cup of melted butter as a beginning for a recipe.

Three cups of sugar--yikes!

I went ahead and added the dry ingredients all at once.  In the future, I will be a good girl and at least whisk the ingredients first in order to break up the clumps of cocoa.  The cocoa did not remain in clumps once it was done baking, but I did have some moments of doubt about how it would all turn out.

I think my bowl is a little too small for this size of recipe.

The final product

The Review

on a scale of 1 to 5

• Overall Rating: 3.5 
• Recipe Difficulty
• Rating: 1 (easy)
• The recipe is simple and straightforward and the directions are easy to follow
• Taste
• Rating: 4 (pretty good)
• The recipe has a good chocolate taste, but the brownies come out very sweet and almost candy-like (I think due to the three cups of sugar).  I prefer my brownies to be a little less sweet.
• Texture
• Rating: 3 (okay)
• While not completely cake-like in texture, the brownies are not exactly fudge-like either.  They tend to fall in between both categories.  I also found the brownies to be a bit grainy (again I think due to all the sugar).

 

• Hints and tips
• The brownies taste better after they have had a chance to cool completely.

 

• Would I make these brownies again?
• I would make these brownies again if I needed to make a batch for a large gathering of people.
• I might try making them with a little less sugar and see how they turn out.