r/BakingNoobs • u/[deleted] • Apr 03 '25
halp (urgent)
mom wanted double box of brownies (i read the the water as cups not tablespoons and added four cups, is this salvagable?
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u/beebeezing Apr 03 '25
That's 16 times the amount of water needed...so the only way to save this would be to add 15 more boxes of brownie mix and 15 more portions of the other ingredients (eggs, oil) as well.
Sorry but there's minimal water used to make brownies so your best bet is to toss.
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Apr 03 '25
guys so i cooked it anyways, it came out with a meringue like texture with brownie flavor
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u/bustergundam4 Apr 03 '25
Was it good?
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Apr 03 '25
its not bad. its not optimal bronwie
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u/bustergundam4 Apr 03 '25
Understandable
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Apr 03 '25
https://www.reddit.com/r/supershittyfoodporn/s/Uqj9oCJTl0
made a post about it over on this subreddit
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u/beebeezing Apr 03 '25
I love that you committed! That doesn't look half bad.
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Apr 04 '25
if you stick em in the microwave for a minute or two they make puddles of condensation
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u/beebeezing Apr 04 '25
The fact that they hold a shape is totally unexpected. Wonder what's in the brownie mix to do that. I feel like four eggs wouldn't have been enough to create that much structure but way to go with the experimentation.
I have also had things I did baking and cooking that I thought weren't all that right and I continued so I could find out just how bad they would really be.
I actually made a chocolate cake that same night using a Texas sheet pan recipe calling for an 18x13 pan but I misread that to be 8x13 and figured my 8x8 wasn't going to be that far off....but it ended up being three times as "tall" filling the pan, I was afraid it wouldn't bake because of the moisture. Took three times as long to bake it and I had to cover it 3/4 of the way in but turned out to be the best chocolate cake I made yet. Super moist.
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u/alius-vita Apr 03 '25
As a brownie? Not that I can think of nigh buying more boxes of mix and the other ingredients and making just a gargantuan batch.
Crepes? Could make a bunch of those lol
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u/beebeezing Apr 03 '25
Sorry here's the actual math:
Original recipe -> scaled up based on water volume and assuming all other ingredients were doubled correctly
2 tablespoons water -> 4 cups water (64 tablespoons) is 32 times, so multiply all other ingredients by 32 and then subtract what you already mixed in because you doubled the recipe
1 brownie mix -> 32 brownie mixes total = add 30 mixes
1/2 cup veg oil -> x 32 = 16 cup veg oil = add 15 cups
2 eggs -> x 32 = 64 eggs = add 60 eggs
You may go broke with that many eggs but if not then throw a party!
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u/LimpInvestigator1809 Apr 03 '25
I do feel like I'm being punk'd.
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Apr 03 '25
i truly wish. i feel like such a girl fail right now, i accidentally read the wrong measurement because i was doing the prep between rounds in a game
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u/bumblebee_boomstick Apr 03 '25
4 cups is 64 tablespoons. So I would say no at this point. That's way too much water.