Brownie recipe

Here's my favourite brownie recipe.

Ingredients

dry

wet

eggs

optional

hardware

Directions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F
  2. Sift together the dry ingredients (NOT the sugar) into a medium bowl, set aside
  3. Beat the eggs and vanilla together
  4. Gradually add the sugar
  5. Add oil and dry in three batches, alternating, starting with the oil
  6. Grease the pan 1
  7. (optional) Add nuts or whatever
  8. Pour mixture into pan
  9. Bake until done (20-30 minutes)

Credit where credit is due: the recipe is originally from Delishably and the mixing method is from Alton Brown3. Alton's recipe calls for butter but the Delishably author makes a good case for using oil instead - it's just as good but a lot cheaper. (Alton also calls for like twice as much of each ingredient, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯). I figure Alton knows his food chemistry, though, so i've kept his mixing intructions.

The nice thing about this recipe is that you don't get a hard crust around the edges of the pan. I'm not sure if that's due to something in the recipe, or if it's mainly the light aluminum pan i use. If you know, let me know!

  1. After adding the last of the oil i typically put the upturned measuring cup into the pan, leaving it there while i finish mixing. A minute later, i use a paper towel to spread the leftover oil around the pan. ↩

  2. the original recipe calls for 1 cup of sugar, but even the author admits that she doesn't use that much. 3/4 tastes fine to me. you could probably go even lower. ↩

  3. I'm Just Here For More Food (Abrams, 2012). pg 188 ↩