This week we made decadent brownies, and because not everyone is a chocolate fan – we also made some scrumptious blondies! Both recipes turned out great – though our time restraints meant they came out a little extra fudgey. In our 9×9 glass pans, they could have used a little extra time, and, if you prefer them a little more set, they would have benefitted from a little time cooling before being cut up.
Brownie recipe: https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/seriously-fudgy-homemade-brownies/
Blondie recipe: https://sugarspunrun.com/blondies-recipe/
We also discussed the darker side of online baking videos. We watched this (dangerous!) video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h675kjknK4 and then talked about how many of the techniques shown are very unsafe, and don’t work! (do NOT pour boiling caramel onto an electric beater – it is too hot and can burn you). If you want to see why watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEQaYdvs478 .
That said, after a little research I discovered you can make caramel lace tuiles from werthers candies safely! You just need to do it in the oven. So we crushed up some werthers (I could only find the kind that are soft in the middle and hard on the outside, but they still worked! You don’t want the totally chewy kind). We placed the crushed candies into circles on a silicone baking mat and baked them at 400, keeping an eye on them until they started bubbling (about 5 minutes). The results were a beautiful edible decoration for atop a cupcake, brownie, cake, etc
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