Hey there!
I am Hilah, and today on Hilah Cooking I am going to share a delicious, fudgy, perfect
brownie recipe with y’all.
I had a request on Facebook for brownies and while I do have the most fabulous brownie
recipe in the world right up here in my little noggin, I haven't actually shared it on the
show.
I have only put it in the Learn to Cookbook, and in the newsletter like two years ago,
so I figured you know what, it is time to let these brownies be free, go out like little
butterflies flapping around, sprinkling chocolate bits, and pecans and stuff like that all over
everybody’s heads and just generally spreading joy thought the Internet world, so that is
what I am going to do right now.
Let’s get started.
Get your chocolatey mouths ready to eat chocolate!
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[How To Make Brownies From Scratch]
>> Hilah: First things first, I have got a stick of butter, well, ok, a quarter pound,
and I am gonna cream that.
I have just had this out for about an hour at room temperature to get a little bit soft.
Hang on to that, and we’ll use that to grease our pan, and I could totally do this with
a mixer, but I think y’all can see it better in a glass bowl, so this is just gonna take
a while.
[PROJECTOR SOUND]
>> Hilah: Ok, once your butter is kind of fluffed up like this.
You are going to add some sugar, and cream it around just to get it nice and creamy.
That’s good, and I am going to add an egg, and you see how simple this recipe is.
This is, this is actually the recipe that I, this is probably one of the first recipes
I ever made.
I have been making these brownies since I was like, 7 or 8 years old.
So, it would be a good thing to get your kids involved in to.
I could do it, they can certainly do it.
Ok, thoroughly incorporated, and add vanilla, and you know, you can eyeball it.
I just did.
Then we add the dry ingredients and brownies, you are just going to add, at least in my
brownies, flour, and cocoa powder.
The main difference between brownies and cakes is that brownies don’t really have any leavening
agents in them.
There is no baking soda or baking powder, and that is what gives them that really dense
fudgy texture as opposed to a light and fluffy cake texture.
Son of a . . . ! Don’t cuss while you are making brownies, or the brownies will turn
out terrible.
That’s an old wives tale that I just made up.
Just make sure all the flour, and everything, is mixed in really well, fab, ok, and it is
very stiff and thick, and that’s just perfect!
I have got a pan here.
I am using an 11 x 7 pan, an 8 x 8 pan will work also, and this is why we saved our little
butter wrapper.
This is what my mom always used to do.
Just use that to grease your pan.
Make sure you get the corners really well.
If you wanted to, you could even line it with foil and then grease the foil, and then you
could lift your whole pan of brownies out at once, but this works for my purposes just
fine.
Ok, and I am going to put some nuts just on top, so I can just do it in half.
If you wanted to add some nuts in at the end before you put it in the pan, that’s totally
fine, but I am not a huge fan of nuts in my brownies although I like how they look.
So, I am just going to put some nuts on half, and I am using pecans, but walnuts are also
really nice because pecans are getting expensy ya’ll.
I don’t know if you have notices, but they are like 12 bucks a pound now.
Good lord!
Ok, cutesy tutesy.
I am just going to put these in the oven and bake them for, oh, about 25 minutes.
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>> Hilah: Ok, brownies.
These actually have been cooling off for a while, and not hot.
I just was faking that.
So, I am going to go ahead and cut into them, a little crusty edges.
Oh, man the little inside is all gooey.
Look at that, how moist and fudgy and delicious.
A little crunchy edges, I like little crunchy edges and I go for that.
Well, let’s just see what we’ve got here.
Man, I just think these are the perfect brownies, and they are just like so rich and fudgy,
and the little crusty edges.
They are wonderful.
I hope you try them.
I hope you like them.
If you want a printable recipe, you can get that at hilahcooking.com along with other
tips and stuff, and also if you make this, and you want to share a picture of it, you
can do that on Instagram and hashtag @hilahcooking and it will go up on the website, so let me
know how you like it.
If you have any questions, leave them in the comments below.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Have a wonderful week!
Have a wonderful life, because a love you.
Ok, bye.
[MUSIC]
B is for butter that went into the brownies.
R is for reefer that is not in the brownies.
O is for “Oh, my gosh!
These brownies are so good!”
W is for wonderful and eating all the brownies like I said I would.
N is for nothing compares to these brownies.
I is for “I really love these brownies!”
E is for “Everything that I do I do for these brownies.”
S is for . . . shit . . . I don’t have one for S.