Let's Bake It! Vol 2
Niya Grier

Hello lovely people! Welcome back to another blog of Lets bake it! For those who don't know, every friday I will be giving you all lovely recipes that you can bake at home and enjoy! Last week we baked some lovely churros but what will be baking this week you may ask??

 

Well, we will be baking Brownies! Brownies are a basic treat but some of us just love them a lot! How could you not like such a thing right? They are just so soft, and lovely sigh all this food talk make me hungry! Look down below for the lovely recipe!

 

Ingredients
  • 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
  • 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
  • 2/3 cup cocoa powder, sifted if lumpy
  • 1/2 cup powdered sugar, sifted if lumpy
  • 1/2 cup dark chocolate chips
  • 3/4 teaspoons sea salt
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1/2 half cup canola oil or extra-virgin olive oil
  • 2 tablespoons water
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Instructions

 

  1. Preheat the oven to 325°F. Lightly spray an 8x8 baking dish (not a 9x9 dish or your brownies will overcook) with cooking spray and line it with parchment paper

  2. Spray the parchment paper.

  3. In a medium bowl, combine the sugar, flour, cocoa powder, powdered sugar, chocolate chips, and salt. In a large bowl, whisk together the eggs, olive oil, water, and vanilla.

  4. Sprinkle the dry mix over the wet mix and stir until just combined.

  5. Pour the batter into the prepared pan (it'll be thick - that's ok) and use a spatula to smooth the top. Bake for 40 to 48 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out with only a few crumbs attached (note: it's better to pull the brownies out early than to leave them in too long).

  6. Cool completely before slicing.

  7. Store in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 3 days. These also freeze well!
BakingFact:

Baking soda is kind of magic..

 

While it’s a key ingredient in baking, it turns out that baking soda is a substance with a lot of uses. This article from Mental Floss goes into its non-baking uses, which include:

 

Tenderizing meat, by placing it in a mixture of water and baking soda. Polishing silver, by pouring baking soda into a basin lined with aluminum foil, adding boiling water, and letting your silver soak. Removing splinters by, again, applying water and baking soda to the skin, putting a bandage over it, and letting it sit for a couple of days, to make the skin softer and the splinter easier to remove. Helping soothe bug bites, by applying that same baking soda/water mixture to the skin around a bite.

Coded by Finch