Brownie Remixing Experiment

A week ago I mentioned that I’ll be providing a new brownie recipe and experimenting with it and so far it looks delicious when it came out of the oven and I noticed that I could make more brownies without brownie mix. I think I went from baking from brownie mix to baking scratch brownies. Since during the previous baking class teacher says this “I don’t care if you know how you make brownies from scratch you need to make brownies from brownie mix.”

The lesson is learning and using an oven the concept seems simple at first glance. But I guess its more difficult when using it more and more because the baking result wouldn’t turn well depending on how one would bake it. Also an oven comes with different sets of results when baking. The teacher asked whether anyone of us has an oven and if not he’ll transfer the person to Robotics. Which I wouldn’t really enjoy because of all its stem stuff and baking as a class would be a lot more useful. So this lesson would be simple enough my dad bought a chips delight brownie mix and then I baked them, submitted it to class and it got sold too. This story brings the founding story of The Ghost Corner Bakery which is a homemade bakery from a very young person.

Now that there’ll be no more baking class for next semester and I don’t have to bake anymore for school and my business is a little flourishing. At least I wouldn’t really have the opportunity to do it out of school and flourish it more as a business than a something I do for class because I don’t like eating them well I’d like more of brownies and cookies but not in the way of seeing it. This would lead to a little a lot more growth and experimentation for me and the business. Then maybe I’d have a cool backstory to write to colleges (I mean colleges love passion projects right?) even US ivy leagues are more likely to pick someone who became an entrepreneur at a young age than someone who just went there.

At least that doesn’t matter too much I don’t want to say this that I’m doing this for the sake of college but I enjoy baking. This brownie recipe was a sucess of the series of experiments I plan to do at the moment because I need to be at least productive this summer and not do nothing, besides what will doing nothing achieve? It won’t achieve anything at all by default. At least I could earn a decent profit by baking brownies it’ll be much better than not earning anything at all. I could buy some mangas and comic volume every now and then with that money. It would be a good idea for now while I don’t have regular employment my mom’s side hustle is a general store after all, so I could sell whatever I want and it wouldn’t be much of a problem.

I used a cookbook to actually make this new brownie recipe because I need a basis for the recipe itself to begin with, I used ganache to actually make the chocolate flavoring itself. Ganache is basically melted chocolate plus heavy cream however becausebI couldn’t find any heavy creams. I just substituted it with butter and milk, the first thing I did so that the chocolate would melt and this is the safest way to milk chocolate so far would be to heat the heavy cream this is a method I got from the book by the way which is a pretty impressive method compared to other methods I found. But because I don’t have heavy cream or know a loccation to buy the heavy cream themselves, I thought of melting the butter with a microave for a minute and thirty seconds. Then after microaving the butter I sliced the chocolate and puts some bits on the butter then mixed that thing for a while till the chocolate melted, afterwards I added some milk. The original recipe required melting chocolate chips but I thought its a little pricey and it’s easier to melt chocolate chips.

The ingredients I added were a cup of brown and white sugar, some eggs and vanilla extract the original recipe had syrup but I thought it‘d be expesive and troubling to find. So I ignored that then I also added some flour, cocoa powder, and baking soda to the mixture. The last thing I added to the mixture was the chocolate ganche I melted with the milk and butter. After that I mixed them with the standing mixer I have since I need to mix it and spent some time doing other things while using the standing mixer. Once I’m done mixing this to the standing mixer I poured some of the brownie mixture into one pan. Then I refrigerate for an hour before baking I did the same process again and did it to some other pans.

I topped the whole thing with walnuts and baked the brownies for just fifty minutes. I ended up finishing up the whole process throughout the night but that’s no concern for me right now. The brownies are done and then later that night I computed all the ingridients and it came at a cost of 11 philippine pesos and that isn’t too bad for anyone that’s baking brownies and trying to make things affordable. However after tasting the brownies and my dad’s advice I made it 15 pesos because of its size proportions being much more larger than the original brownies I made back then. I’m not too surprised with such results currently because I changed the brownie recipe because I don’t want to hold back myself.

This will probably be a new beginning for me and for my business myself I don’t care if I dreamt of it when I was younger, entrepreneurship could start at any age if anyone wants to. This is all for the results of the experiments.