Brownie is a kind of a delicious cake that many people love eating!
Brownie is a wonderful sweet dessert that everyone loves eating. Let’s find out more about it!
- Their full name is chocolate brownie even though they are commonly referred to simply as a brownie.
- It is a square or rectangular, chocolate baked treat.
- Brownies come in a variety of forms and may be either fudgy or cakey.
- It depends on their density.
- There are 3 main theories about where they are originated from.
- None of these theories is verified.
- One theory says that a chef accidentally added melted chocolate into the biscuit dough.
- Another one suggests that a cook forgot to add flour to the batter when baking cake.
- The most popular, but still unverified theory says that a housewife didn’t have baking powder and improvised with this new recipe It was said that she was baking for guests and decided to service these “flattened” cakes to them.
- The “traditional” brownies recipe has only 5 ingredients.
- These are the following: butter, sugar, chocolate, eggs, and flour.
- Chocolate normally is unsweetened, so brownies need more sugar in order to be… brownies sweet!
- Some brownies get a bit chewy due to eggs “overdose” along with a combination of chocolates.
- In the U.S.A. there is a National Brownies Day.
- It is celebrated on the 8th of December!
- There’s also a mythical creature called a “brownie”.
- Brownies are small, fanciful, good-natured elves who secretly help out and do good deeds at night.
- Brownies may include nuts, frosting, cream cheese, chocolate chips, or other ingredients.
- In addition, brownie point is a term used to describe a virtual social currency that is earned when doing good deeds or for going the extra mile, often for a boss, spouse, teacher, or parent.
- Normal chocolate cakes look a lot like brownies.
- The difference between them is that chocolate cake have twice the amount of flour.
- Also, chocolate cake has less amount of cocoa than a brownie.
- The world’s largest brownie was made at the Hudson Valley Chocolate Festival and Holiday Crafts Show in Suffern, New York.
- It happened in 2001 and since then no larger brownie has been ever created.
- It included 750 pounds of chocolate chips, 500 pounds of butter, 850 pounds of sugar, 3,500 eggs, and 500 pounds of flour.
- It weighed a whopping 1,360 kilograms!
- The Most Expensive Chocolate Brownie”, the Brownie Extraordinaire can only be found in the Crystal Menu of Brulee in Atlantic City, USA.
- Aside from being a menu staple, Brownie Extraordinaire is also a part of Tropicana Resort and Casino’s Deluxe Proposal Package.
- It costs $15,000.
- The most popular brownie mix is the one with walnuts.
