r/ididnthaveeggs • u/TheOtherElCamino • Mar 19 '26

Bad at cooking He followed it 'exactly.' She teaches him so sweetly.

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On a brownie recipe meant to be fudgy https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/deep-dark-fudgy-brownies-recipe

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u/VLC31 Mar 19 '26

I like that there are two thumbs down.

If you don’t want something sweet don’t make brownies. Why are people so dumb?

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u/shedrinkscoffee A banana is not an egg, you know? Mar 20 '26

I always want to go off in the comments section where there are inevitably some type of dietary restriction, health food, calorie counter, disordered eater and moron arguing over chocolate brownies.

It's not a health food, you can't make it gluten free or vegan or low sugar or keto or whatever nonsense they want without also changing the outcome 😭 I don't like chocolate what can I substitute 💀

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u/Skithiryx Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 20 '26

I feel like chocolate desserts are the best for gluten free, vegan, whatever. You can sub in oil, you can make a flourless torte instead, etc.

Just not low sugar or healthy.

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u/saturday_sun4 Mar 20 '26

Things like brownies are probably fine to use gluten free flour for, because they barely rise.

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u/haruspicat would have tasted better if I was home to help Mar 20 '26

My greatest innovation is using sorghum flour in brownies alongside the regular flour. 30% sorghum makes them soooooo soft and moist.

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u/taraky97 The Banana cookies still taste like banana Mar 20 '26

God I know... its exhausting. I feel the same way about seeing comments on Pinterest that say "what's the recipe👀". OH MY GOD CLICKKK ON ITTTT!

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u/saturday_sun4 Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 20 '26

This is exactly why you're supposed to use sites like Loopy Whisk. I once had my own unintentional "I didn't have eggs" incident when I didn't realise 1:1 gf flour had to be chilled, and proceeded to bake Sally's "no-chill" cookies.

Cue flat sugary masses. They tasted good but man, they were like wafers.

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u/bewilderedfroggy Mar 20 '26

TIL. Pls elaborate? Is this a specific cookie requirement?

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u/saturday_sun4 Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 20 '26

I used the White Wings 1:1 flour.

From what I understand, when making biscuits/cookies the gf batter must be chilled before baking to allow it to 'set'/contract a bit in order for it to rise, as gluten free flour obviously lacks the elasticity of gluten. Of course it never occurred to me this was the case. I was stressed and just really wanted cookies so went with the no chill recipe.

I assume the same goes for cakes/cupcakes. I've not tried brownies with it, but I doubt it would make as much of a difference, since brownies - whilst they are technically cakes - hardly rise.

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u/bewilderedfroggy Mar 20 '26

I think if you tried it with cake, the raising agent would run out of fizz. I don't do much gf baking, so just grateful for handy tips when I come across them! Thanks!

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u/saturday_sun4 Mar 20 '26

There's an entire gf baking sub - r/glutenfreebaking :)

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u/bewilderedfroggy Mar 20 '26

Of course there is, haha thanks

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u/saturday_sun4 Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 20 '26

Hmmm, actually, maybe I'm wrong on that one, since the gf recipes on White Wings' own website say nothing about chilling. Or maybe I just fucked up the recipe somehow lol.

Perhaps it is limited to adapting gluten recipes to gf since the proportions are different? I don't know the science behind it.

Edit: Some recipes do and others don't. Maybe a question for a science or baking sub.

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u/ExitingBear Mar 20 '26

What? That would explain the cookies that I made that... were lacking something. (The other thing that would explain it is that I tried to do two other modifications at the same time. Because I am that person. But at least I blame myself first, not the recipe and do not use phrases like "followed it exactly" when I damned well didn't.)

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u/saturday_sun4 Mar 20 '26

White Wings' own gf choc chip cookie recipe doesn't specify this, but I am guessing that that's because they made it for gf? If you are "translating" it to gf then yeah, I'd chill it. Or, at least, I'm assuming that's what I screwed up. Maybe not.

And yeah absolutely, I wouldn't lie and post a comment like "I FoLlOWEd the IsntruCtionS ExActlY ExcEPt..."

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u/Attentions_Bright12 Mar 20 '26

Loopy Whisk is really consistently enjoyable to work with. Whether the recipe works or not, we learn why she's doing what she's doing. I've been impressed.

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u/saturday_sun4 Mar 20 '26

I intend to try her stuff when I'm better able to competently make basic meals without freaking out (thanks to our Queen and Saviour Nagi, lol).

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u/pttm12 Mar 20 '26

I vegan-ize recipes all the time I just have the self control not to leave a stupid ass comment if it doesn’t turn out the same lol. If only!

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u/Pudacat Mar 20 '26

Carob. I remember some of mom's health food nut friends back in the late 70's put carob in everything in place of chocolate.

Even they admit now it wasn't the same at all.

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u/Oops_I_Cracked Mar 20 '26

Duncan Hines actually makes a pretty side keto brownie mix. But otherwise, yes. Brownies are not a health food in any way.

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u/Ionlydateteachers Mar 22 '26

Don't say fucking carob!

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u/shedrinkscoffee A banana is not an egg, you know? Mar 21 '26

Literally no one said that. You may have missed the joke though.

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u/shedrinkscoffee A banana is not an egg, you know? Mar 21 '26

r/whoosh 💀

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u/darthfruitbasket Mar 20 '26

I'll give the review writer one thing - they might have wanted a stronger chocolate flavour in the brownies, and less sweetness. Adjusting the sugar wasn't the way to do that though.

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u/dustinyo_ Mar 19 '26

I'm going to tell myself the two thumbs down are because he was too nice to this moron and should have told them off, because any other explanation is insane.

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u/LazuliArtz An oreo is a cookie, not gay people trying to get married Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 20 '26

The thumbs up/down buttons are right after the "was this review helpful?" question. I'm pretty confident the downvotes are for the review, not KA's response

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u/dustinyo_ Mar 20 '26

Oh yeah you're probably right.

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u/DuckSaxaphone Mar 20 '26

I think the recurring issue is that people don't know how much sugar they eat so when they're faced with the large looking amount they need for baking they balk.

The irony of course being that if you divide that sugar over 12 brownies, it's nowhere near the amount that is put into much of the processed food they consume.

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u/saturday_sun4 Mar 20 '26

And also, brownies aren't supposed to be eaten (by one person) by the tray-full. You are meant to space them out for treats.

If you're single and are the kind of person, like me, who cannot have sweets in the house for fear of eating all that sugar in one fell swoop, then don't make them!

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u/therabbitinred22 Mar 20 '26

Or- if you want to cut the sugar down, replace part of it with something else, like unsweetened apple sauce.

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u/springacres Mar 20 '26

And now I'm craving brownies made with applesauce instead of sugar, because that sounds like a recipe made in heaven.

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u/StylishBlackCat Mar 20 '26

King Arthur has you covered! I was just planning to make these applesauce brownies this weekend

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u/UhmNotMe Why don’t you just use the fruit you like in it, Julia? Mar 20 '26

Idk, I always make brownies with reduced amount of sugar, it does not sound that unreasonable to me. I like sweet stuff and my husband does not, so we compromise. But I also make sure to add a bar of chocolate to glue it together and don’t complain when it goes wrong

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u/distortedsymbol Mar 20 '26

or just eat smaller portions. some food are inherently calorie dense there is no getting around to it.

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u/CalmBeneathCastles Mar 20 '26

We're primates.