September 21, 2005
Duncan Hines Brownies
While normally, I'm a "from-scratch" girl, I make a few exceptions, notably the brownies.
You see, brownies just taste better when they're made from a box. I've tried and tinkered with many a recipe in my day perusing all kinds of dessert cookbooks, incuding the famed Rose Levy Berenbaum ones, only to discover that no one satisfies my brownie craving like Duncan Hines Dark Fudge brownie mix.
I've this thing for gooey, fudgy chocolate and I'm not afraid to admit it. Give me a glass of milk, a rich, chewy brownie and watch my stresses melt away!
The box provides you instructions on how to make the brownies, giving you an option for cake-like, or fudge-like brownies. Frankly, I'm a little confused as to why a choice even needs to be made - fudgy of course!! By adding 1 egg, 1/3 cup of water, 1/3 cup of oil and the contents of the box (which includes a packet of gooey chocolate) and mixing your concoction, your brownie mix is ready to be poured into an 8"x8" baking sheet and baked til done.
The resulting brownies are rich, decadent, and oh-so-satisfying!
** The Napa posts are coming along but it's been hard to write them while in-and-out of the hospital.
Comments
THANK YOU!!! i needed the ingredients list for a lab write up for school. since we always get duncan hines stuff, i started looking. i just now found them on here. oh, and i also love them. their good.
Oh, I so disagree! Brownies are so easy to make from scratch. I've never found a boxed variety that compares. I've been making a super-fudgey kind from a Cook's magazine recipe for the last couple of years and everyone seems to love it. I'll send it along if you like. It's more complicated than my old recipe, but it wows them every time.