I’m no baking expert, but I have learned a few things about it over the past 24 hours. So, if you still have Christmas baking to do, this goes out to you!
1. When a recipe calls for softened butter, that does not mean mostly melted butter. My laziness resulted in the following.
The may be flat, but they’re still darn delicious. Phew!
2. You can make insanely fudgy and dense brownies by using a boxed cake mix.
To make the brownies, I combined:
- 1 box dark chocolate cake mix
- 1/4 cup canola oil
- 1 egg
- 1/4 cup + 2 tsbp whole milk
- 3/4 cup white chocolate chips
Bake at 350 for 20 minutes, and then throw out your “from scratch” brownie recipe. You really don’t need it anymore.
3. Cream cheese icing makes everything better. So do sprinkles.
(Click here for thee best cream cheese icing recipe).
May God bless you and your family on this Christmas Eve! xoxo G
Merry Christmas to you and your family Gracie! Wish you all the best in 2011 too and your journey in New York!!!! Excited for you!!
Frosting makes everything better for sure!!!! I agree!
Hooray, your boxed cake mix brownies were a success! Flat cookies are awesome as long as they’re still delicious 😉
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Boxed cake mixes solve pretty much any baking problem in my opinion. Also let me say that I LOVE your header!
Merry Christmas to you and your family, Gracie.
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ah yay! im glad your boxed cake mix into brownies succeeded!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
those brownies look amazing. awesome!
Little Bookworm says
All the baking looks amazing! Have a great Christmas day tomorrow! 🙂
sounds like you did pretty darn good for not being a baker! The cookies looked great, and thanks for the tip with the brownies!
Merry Christmas
Dennis
oh man, those brownies look delicious!
Ditto about the cream cheese icing. It’s good enough to be a dessert by itself! 😀
Merry Christmas Gracie!
I’ve been doing a ton of baking the last week and I’ve learned a trick about butter! Put it in the microwave for about 15 seconds until it’s room temp and slightly soft, the cookies come out with lots of nice texture!
I agree cream cheese frosting makes everything better. Although, I like to think that MY vanilla cream cheese frosting is the best… 😉
Merry Christmas!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
Danielle says
That chocolate brownie dish needs to jump through the screen - lol! Looks great!
Mommajozy says
Can you possibly share the pan size? I assume it is greased to some extent???
I am also kinda wondering what result some other cake mix might make…. <3 Have always thought brownies could be made with a cake mix, but never tried.
Thanks !!!
Coklat says
Yummy! I love anything about chocolate!