Brownies, a classic but delicious desert.

I really had no choice; when I decided upon cooking as my independent project I knew I had to bake brownies. The dessert is easy enough to make, melt some chocolate and butter and add some sugar, flour, and eggs, yet I do not believe I have ever made brownies from scratch. Buying a box of Betty Crocker Mix and adding some water, oil, and maybe an egg or two just seemed so much less time consuming. Looking back on it, I really do not understand why I never took the time to bake from scratch one of my favorite desserts. I bet some of you out there are guilty of the very same thing! But just like the quote at the top of my blog states: be fearless and have fun, try cooking something you have not before.

Memories...
As a child, I always helped my mom mix together the brownie mix and at the end I always remember begging her to lick the spoon. Sometimes, if I was particularly lucky that day, she would comply, and I would spend the next five minutes making sure not a drop of chocolate batter remained. For the next half hour or so, I would wait impatiently on a stool in the kitchen that I placed in front of the stove, checking every two seconds how much longer the brownies needed to cook, and always disappointed so little time had gone by. Finally after patiently--or rather impatiently--waiting for the dessert to finish cooking, the timer would beep and my mother would rush over to the oven, removing the hot brownies and unleashing their delicious smell. Now came the most torturous part of the process, having to wait 5 whole minutes while the brownies cooled down to a temperature that I could eat them at. Eating brownies for a 5 year old me was not a simple process. My best friend Brittany and I used to take a small chunk of our brownie and roll it up into a little round ball and then eat it. Now, when I look back on it, I never understand how I could have eaten a brownie that way, but 5 year olds do like to play with food.

Actually cooking the brownies...
I am going to apologize in advance for not taking a picture of the brownies I made. To tell you the truth I was kind of embarrassed about how they ended up looking. If I make brownies again in the future, I'll post a picture, promise. Back to actually baking the brownies... In order to create the batter, I had to melt butter and chocolate together, one of my favorite cooking tasks, melting things like butter and chocolate. After that, all I had to do was add in and mix together all the other ingredients. I really don't know where I went wrong to make the brownies look the way they did when I finished. For one, a huge air bubble formed on the top while the dessert cooked. Oh well, the brownies still tasted delicious, especially the batter.