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If you want to get perfectly clean, neat, and even brownie slices, check out my How to Cut Brownies Cleanly in 5 Steps article. Science has shown our visual perception of food actually influences how tasty we perceive food to be. Glass or ceramic baking pans will take LONGER to bake these brownies, and the texture may become more dense. The darker the color, the more likely you are to burn the edges or have dry edges. I like this baking pan, or any quality metal baking pan that isn’t too dark in color. The Best Brownie Baking Panįor the best brownie recipe, I highly recommend using a metal baking pan. You can learn more about how to measure properly here. If you don’t have a scale, then use the spoon and level method for both the flour and cocoa powder to ensure you don’t add too much and create dry & crumbly brownies. I like to use a digital kitchen scale to ensure 100% accuracy. To get moist, fudgy, and chewy brownies you want to be extra careful to measure your dry ingredients properly. Crumbly brownies? Make sure to measure properly! This adds fat and protein which translates to rich, fudgy, and chewy brownies. You’ll notice in most of my brownie recipes I add an extra egg yolk.

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Feel free to omit the corn syrup or use golden syrup if you prefer! Your brownies just won’t quite have that same Cosmic texture. There is a small amount of both cornstarch and corn syrup in this recipe to help make the brownies super chewy and fudgy.

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Oil in Baking article for a full breakdown on each of these fats and how they affect tenderness, flavor, and texture in baked goods (and not just brownies).ĭo I have to use cornstarch + corn syrup?

There were also shocking differences in the crusts of the two brownie batches! You’ll find these Cosmic Brownies call for all butter to provide the best flavor and melt-in-your-mouth texture.Ĭheck out my Butter vs. The brownies made with butter were fudgier and softer than the oil brownies. Oil in brownies to see how the type of fat used affects the final result. No weird chemicals or artificial flavors in these homemade Cosmic Brownies!īutter vs. The store-bought version was one of my favorite childhood treats, so I’ve created a homemade version that’s more suited for an adult palette. I opted for a fudgy chocolate ganache topping that delivers such a better burst of chocolate flavor than store-bought. They come individually wrapped and are super sweet and quite artificial tasting, so making them from scratch tastes SO much better. Cosmic brownies are ultra chewy with a rich fudgy frosting that’s dotted with rainbow crunch sprinkles. They’re an invention of Little Debbie that basically summarize a childhood in the 1990s in each bite. I got as close to the texture of the store-bought kind as I possibly could. These little brownies are ultra rich and fudgy, almost like candy. But these babies are SO much better! Real and satisfying chocolate taste with no crazy artificial ingredients. I think I managed to create this Homemade Cosmic Brownie recipe that will evoke all those childhood memories of snacking on those little plastic-wrapped store-bought brownies. I even managed to find the exact candies Little Debbie tops the brownies with, they’re Wilton Rainbow Chip Crunch and I found them at Michael’s and I’ve seen them at Joanne’s, but they’re also available by a different brand on Amazon. I got started making the most fudgy, chewy brownies I could, using everything I learned from my Ultimate Brownie Guide. I knew I had to make my own version from scratch. Never did I think I’d grow up to make a copycat cosmic brownie, ha! Candy > Nuts any day! I freakin’ loved those Cosmic Brownies. So you could imagine my excitement when I spotted Cosmic Brownies on the shelf at the store. In my child mind, nuts shouldn’t be part of any dessert. There’d usually be some other element in my lunch bag but I’d ALWAYS request my mom add in a Little Debbie brownie as my special treat.īefore Cosmic Brownies came into existence, it was just the Little Debbie brownies with the nuts on top. I always ate a peanut butter sandwich, I didn’t even like jelly necessarily. When I was a kid in elementary school anytime I’d bring a sack lunch it was basically the same exact thing every time.