welcome friends welcome back to the kitchen pandemic pantry
it is April 2020 and so depending on where you are on the planet you're
either sort of slowly crawling out of the the current problem or you're just
about to get plunged into the worst part of it there's a lot of people who are in
complete lockdown a lot of people in complete quarantine and it's still
really tough out there and it's gonna be tough for a lot of people for a long
time a lot of people out of work a lot of people with no income wondering how
to pay for the rent wondering how to come up even with some food we've been
in lockdown for a while we started running out we made a trip to the
grocery store a little while ago and we found nothing and so this past weekend
we went out again to shop for some older relatives who just absolutely can't get
out and we found almost everything that we needed flour milk eggs meat was back
on the counters it's not too bad you just can't rely on getting your favorite
brand you might just have to make do one of the things I really wanted was
baker's chocolate and you're gonna see a video coming out in a couple of weeks
where I don't have baker's chocolate because I film these out of order and so
I still couldn't get baker's chocolate at the at the grocery store the one
aisle that was completely wiped out was the baking aisle and I really wanted
brownies so I bought myself a couple of table rounds and today we're gonna make
Toblerone brownies so into this glass jug I have put butter unsweetened cocoa
powder and I'm gonna break in two Toblerone bars okay almost two I'm going
to keep this for myself now I'm gonna melt this chocolate and
butter together you can do it in a double boiler or a barely simmering pot
of water I used to do that all the time I now do it in a microwave so I'm gonna
take this inside and I'm gonna melt it up okay in our microwave that takes just
over a minute but be careful stir it often so in this bowl I have some flour
and I'm going to add to that baking powder and salt
and just give that a bit of a stir to mix it
next in this big bowl I'm going to put the sugar and two eggs about that much
vanilla and we're just gonna whisk that together so you just want to whip this
until it's kind of light and fluffy difficult to describe but the color
changes and the texture changes and you can see that it's really foamy and
frothy so now I mix in the chocolate okay now
we just whisk that into the eggs it doesn't take long at all okay I'm gonna
switch to a spatula and I'm gonna put in all of the flour mixture and just stir
that in the oven is preheated to 350 degrees and I have a cake pan here that
I have buttered and lined with a parchment sling so into the pan and into
the oven let's see oh that's gonna be good
that's going to be good
so now that we've had some soup and some bread it's time for some dessert our
random chocolate brownie so this is Toblerone it looks like a brownie oh
that looks really good doesn't it it's got that nice glassy glossy top on it
how's a good brownie mm-hmm it's an interesting Brennan because it's not
there's not the super cakey one nope so it's not oh and now I got that
caramel flavor of there well now you really get the rest of the Toblerone
flavor so you get all those other Toblerone flavors coming through yeah it
slowly you got to enjoy it but it's kind of in between a cakey and a in a refugee
cloud g1 right it's it's this is gonna be a problem you go to the grocery store
and the baking aisle is completely wiped out and there's still some candy in the
candy aisle Toblerone I guess any of any of those chocolate bars didn't is mainly
chocolate clearly I mean caramel filled thing isn't gonna work big jerk not
gonna work did it have big Turk in the United States I don't know coffee crisp
coffee crisp might work but it wouldn't be chocolaty enough and again don't have
it in United States sorry guys it's great chocolate parks but you got this
mm-hmm make it your own decide what you think is is you like and
happy dessert me okay look at recipes and say I don't have ingredients see
what can I substitute yeah it doesn't I mean and sometimes that's substituting a
sugar in this case it was substituting a chocolate and coming up with something
that works don't be afraid to put and I know that everybody says baking is a
science and you have to follow it exactly there's a wiggle room there's
yeah wait some wiggle room just play with it it really is just a ratio mm-hmm
so thank you stopping by stay safe stay healthy see you guys soon
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