I'm totally with you! The only reason for icing a brownie is if it's dry and that's why I never order brownie desserts out- they're always dry brownies drowned in icing! Good brownies don't need icing
I didn’t even know that people put icing on brownies that’s just weird. Where I live no one puts icing on brownies and I’ve never actually seen iced brownies anywhere
Mrs LovesLife, Could you test different cheesecake recipes from different countries? New York style, Swedish småländsk ostkaka, Indian chhena poda, German cheesecake made with quark, Greek Mizithra
Yes, we need Chris’ recipes. Every video he’s all “My recipe’s better.” or “I could do better.” And I’m all, well, we need your recipe so we can be better, too!
automaticallyari well I’ve done both albeit I’ve only made the birthday cake versions but the only difference is the taste of butter can’t say the same for other flavors though
Amal, I’m a pastry chef. And butter100% does more than add flavor. Real butter sets at room temp and oil doesn’t. It will give cookies a better shell, snap,chewiness and make it not so cakey.
I've turned straight granulated sugar into confectioner's sugar in a food processor, but it takes a long time -- minutes, not seconds. So only in a pinch. :)
@@briannatuttle1028 what Vickie is describing is actually a beurre manié-- roux is flour and butter that you cook for a bit before adding a liquid, beurre manié is an uncooked paste that you add to a liquid. Both are good, but they're used in different applications.
my favorite hack: when cookies get dry and hard bc they’re a lil old (not like gross but just a couple of days), put them in a ziplock bag with a slice of bread overnight! the bread somehow makes them moist and chewy again!
See, I always made the cake mix cookies with butter instead of oil, I did add a couple tablespoons of sugar to it for my own sweet tooth purposes. Red velvet with cream cheese frosting is amazing. 💙
Susan McGlone I like the hack a lot. I prefer making cookies from scratch, but sometimes if I have guests coming over this is the fastest, less messy, route
@@Chocolover5652 I also do home made with all. But some of these hacks I find I need to try just to see how they are lol but I'm old school cooking and baking and I do not use oil in everything.
Cookie hack that I actually LOVED: drop the baking sheet while they’re baking to get a sorta ripple effect. The cookies end up chewy in the inside and crispy on the edges. All credit to TH-camr Joshua Weissman!!
Ah I don't know if this really a hack or something people do but when I make a cake mix I like replacing half the water with coffee creamer. It's really good.
@@DauntlessDame42 not necessarily videos like this, where people are testing things that may not work, but videos where people are just baking for fun (like jennamarbles baking a cake for her boyfriend lol) can really frustrate me 😅 I know not everyone knows how to ice a cake or how to make certain things, but what I consider the basics of baking can be really hard to watch other people do
If you're working with any sticky ingredients (e.g. corn syrup), try spraying your measuring cup/spoon with pam or cooking spray beforehand so it doesn't stick!
now i’m wondering: considering the homemade was too cake like when not split baked, and the box mix was too fudgy when split baked, if you take box cake mix and split bake it in a square pan, do you get a brownie???
Hi Rachel and Chris! At 09:35 you were wondering what else to do with icing sugar. Here in the Netherlands we call it sugar powder and we mostly use it to dust our pancakes and 'poffertjes' with. (Dutch pancakes are slightly different than the US pancakes and poffertjes is an old traditional Dutch dish ). Love your videos!
No so much of a hack, but I never time my cakes once they’re in the oven. As soon as I can smell them(that classic ‘cake’ smell), they’re done. It’s always worked for me haha 🎂
I can never do that, I need to work with a timer. I just hate it when a recipe says bake until golden brown. My mother always touches the top of the cake (whilst its still in the oven) to check if it's fully baked, I've tried but still can't tell if it's filled baked.
@Kimkmt I do the same! That's the best way to tell, especially when you're cleaning and doing other things as you're baking. Haha. 🙌🏼💁🏻♀️ Although the toothpick thing works really well too. 🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️
Alton's Cocoa Brownies recipe has been my favorite, go-to brownie recipe for years, so I love that you're trying it on your channel! It is a super heavy brownie so I make it in a 9x13 pan so they're thinner. Add a glass of milk and it's sooooo good.
Rach your hair looked so good today. I just watched Bon Appetit’s video with Chris Morocco making lasagna. It looked so good! Can you & your Chris make it for a video?
I just want to say thank you for your videos and for you being you. You have helped me tremendously when I have been having rough days. And you always can get a smile out of me. So thank you. I am so happy for your little boy to join you soon!
I make cookies all the time out of cake mix! I use 1/2 cup oil and 2 eggs and my personal favorite is using lemon cake mix! Then I melt canned vanilla frosting and drizzle it on top. Yum! 😋
A really dark chocolate brownie with cream cheese frosting (that is slightly tart but still sweet) is amazing! It balances the darkness of the brownie out.
My baking hack: I thought everyone knew this but my friends didn’t so here goes, when you scoop up drying ingredients into your measuring cup, (say flour) take a butter knife and use the back edge flat part to even out the top perfectly. Just run it along the rim of the measuring cup and voila, exactly perfectly flat!
Also if you stab the knife into the flour then level it, there will be no air gaps inside the cup so it's guaranteed to be EXACTLY a cup every time, that's why some people shake or bang the cup before levelling also, cos it removes any empty space
You’re supposed to spoon the flour into the measuring cup and then level off with a knife. If you scoop the cup into the flour you’ll compact the flour and always get more flour by weight then you need.
You should try strawberry cake mix cool whip cookies! They are amazing!! could also use lemon or orange cake mix. It does better with the fruity flavors!
For poached eggs, instead of using the vinegar or the swirling hack I crack the egg into one of those metal sift things(like the ones with small holes people use to dust powdered sugar onto things with) and it gets rid of the loose egg white but the stiff egg white stays on the egg. cook it as you normally would a poached egg and it comes out perfect every time.
I always put some yoghurt in brownies or cakes to make them more moist inside. Half a cup or so depending on how big the recipe is. It is also good to separate the egg yolks from whites, beat the whites last and incorporate them gently in the batter as the last step. Really excited for that video! ❤️
I make “birthday cake” rice crispy treats, where I put half a cup (a whole cup if you want it sweeter) of the funfetti cake mix into the marshmallow butter mixture! Then make the rest into cupcakes! You can also drizzle white chocolate on the top of them! ....so not baking technically, but still good 🤣🤣
A good trick/hack I learned is whenever you're making boxed cake or brownies, switch the oil with butter and the water with milk. This makes the batter much more fluffy, tastier, and more fatty😂
Here I am once again... Watching your videos the first time to fall asleep (you just give me happy calm feelings) just to watch it again tomorrow while doing cardio 😂😘
Great video, seemed like LOTS of work! My favorite hack is to throw in a handful or two of chocolate chips into everything. It seems like you already know that one :)
Cooking hack for juicy chicken: flatten chicken to 1/4 inch thick. Dry season however you like. Cook on medium-high for one minute per side (get a nice brown color on both sides). Cover and turn heat to low for ten minutes (don’t take the cover off to check on it!). Turn heat off and (still covered) let sit for another ten minutes. It’s done and crazy delicious. This is when you would add any sauces.
Since you are having a baby soon, one of my favorite hacks that I used while nursing was adding a couple of TBS of nutritional yeast to a package brownie or cookie mix (just for ease). Helped boost my milk sooo much! May need to add a tsp or two of water if it makes your dough too think tho
Okay now we definitely need a Chris’s recipe vs other for all the ones we keep hearing that his recipe is better for. I am dying to know if in direct comparison is Chris’s actually better??? And I mean who would say no to more Chris, he is just as entertaining and the two of you together cooking is just the best! Congrats on the baby boy too by the way! Not long now!
Hi Rachel, I think my favourite baking hack is to use a packet of pudding with box cake to make a airy but not crumbly texture. Just add the pudding mix to the dry ingredients and follow the recipe for the cake mix, the only extra step is to separate the egg whites, whip stiff then fold them in at the end. If the cake batter is super dry then add a bit of milk before folding in the egg whites.
You're my favorite couple in the entire world. And when you kiss us in the end, well i love it. My heart skips a beat and i become happier. Thank you ❤️
Try to make Cupcake Jemma's NY style cookies, you'll never bake other cookies. I've been on a long long quest to find the ultimate cookie, for years, this is the one, trust me.
@@pip0la51 Enjoy, they really are the closest thing, crumbly exterior and a soft gooey center with pockets of melted chocolate! 1 tip though, and that's what I prefer after following the recipe as it is once or twice and only then making adjustments: They tell you to make each cookie 125g, I know that Levain cookies are gigantic but 125g was too much for me, I found 80-100g will give in a good size cookie. Other than that, amazing recipe!
I’ve done the funfetti cookies many times, I think you used the same recipe that I did, I didn’t add chocolate chips but mine always come out really pillowy and soft, they are sooo good
My baking hack I swear by is when a recipe requests vanilla essence and you don't have any (let's be honest, we've all been there) to throw in a shot of brandy instead 😀
"Standing feels like work" amen sista! I agree with Christopher, middle brownies are the best! It isn't my always recipe, but I like the cookies you add vanilla pudding mix to.
I am new and i was watching all her videos and i saw this video and i was like why it has just 1k views and then i saw the time and i was like oh its new video 😅
Don't freak out: Mayonnaise.... Whenever I make a chocolate cake or brownie, I prepare it according to the package and add about 1/3 cup mayonnaise. I don't love baking, so I tend not to have enough baking ingredients on hand to whip things up from scratch. That 1/3ish cup mayo gives it a little something extra that you don't expect from a boxed cake or brownie. I know, mayonnaise is a love it or hate it kind of condiment. We have two kids who love it and two who despise it. Little do they know that I add a dollop in their favorite treats to make them come out just they way they like. I can only imagine the science behind it is the egg and oil-- it makes the finished cake product more moist and fluffy, and fudge-like brownie. The trick came from my grandmother who taught me to add it to devil's food cake; I want to say she subbed something with mayonnaise, but I always just add it in there. I've never tried vanilla or any other flavor, in fear that the mayonnaise might take over the light flavor. I've also used mayonnaise to fry chicken and eggplant when I was out of egg and needed to dredge them before frying. Again, playing on the egg and oil idea. Give it a shot! Mayonnaise hacks? Sounds gross.
She mentioned something about cornflour which might have been the problem? I was thinking the same, I have done it numerous times when I ran out of icing sugar..
Ngl, watching you make the box cake cookies sent me through a rollercoaster of emotions. 1st, I got excited that you were going to do them, then worried you wouldn't do funfetti (the best one), then excited again when you were doing funfetti, then horrified when you added chocolate chips, and disappointed by the end result. Seriously girl, you gotta try the funfetti again, no chocolate chips, and add funfetti frosting on top. That's one of my absolute favorite sweet snacks.
I don’t Put frosting/icing on my brownies, am I the only one?
Also Costco Gardelli box brownies are the best
I'm totally with you! The only reason for icing a brownie is if it's dry and that's why I never order brownie desserts out- they're always dry brownies drowned in icing! Good brownies don't need icing
I don't put frosting on mine but maybe a bit of caramel or peanut butter.
I didn’t even know that people put icing on brownies that’s just weird. Where I live no one puts icing on brownies and I’ve never actually seen iced brownies anywhere
@@doughbaker6259 I know people do it, I mean it's not that different than cake so putting frosting on them shouldn't be nearly as odd as people think.
Mysticwolf I do not like brownies with icing
Mrs LovesLife,
Could you test different cheesecake recipes from different countries?
New York style,
Swedish småländsk ostkaka,
Indian chhena poda,
German cheesecake made with quark,
Greek Mizithra
Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton fun idea! Totally different kinds of cheesecake though so comparing wouldn’t be the easiest
this is the most formal comment i’ve ever read on youtube
I haven't heard of several of these. I got some googling to do! Thanks for sharing your information!!
The Greek 'cheesecake' is called 'melopita'. And great idea!
Ooh yes!! And eat the swedish ostkaka with wipped cream and raspberry jam😍
I need an episode of just Chris takeover! We need to see his recepies!
Yes, we need Chris’ recipes. Every video he’s all “My recipe’s better.” or “I could do better.” And I’m all, well, we need your recipe so we can be better, too!
Yes!!!
yes!!!!!!!!Please do that!!!!
"Standing feels like work"
Man, I felt that in my soul.
But Yk where it goes when u die
I vote Chris make his brownie recipe split vs normal
"Is this brownie better or mine? Trick question, you love me"
HAHA Chris 😂😂😂 I wanna see his recipe now
You should try the cookie hack again but add butter to see if it makes a difference. Cuz now I'm curious!
Brooke Scheumann it shouldn’t make a huge difference just will taste of butter because both are basically oils or oily substances
@@amalzuhair4495 Oil vs butter definitely can make a huge difference. They're completely different kinds of fat.
automaticallyari well I’ve done both albeit I’ve only made the birthday cake versions but the only difference is the taste of butter can’t say the same for other flavors though
Or substitute oil with butter
Amal, I’m a pastry chef. And butter100% does more than add flavor. Real butter sets at room temp and oil doesn’t. It will give cookies a better shell, snap,chewiness and make it not so cakey.
I feel like you went from “kinda pregnant” to “really pregnant” in one video to the next
Exactly how it feels when you're pregnant as well. You wake up super pregnant one day 😂
Different clothes also effect that. Some really show and others hide more
Proud to share my name with a stand mixer
Lol that’s the funniest thing everrr
I've turned straight granulated sugar into confectioner's sugar in a food processor, but it takes a long time -- minutes, not seconds. So only in a pinch. :)
After you pulsed it.... Did you put sand in it? I love Chris's involvement in videos 😂
My fav cooking hack: when making gravy, make a paste from flour and soft butter then melt it into your broth/juices. It melts in slowly and no lumps!
Vickie Freeman so a roux lol
@@briannatuttle1028 what Vickie is describing is actually a beurre manié-- roux is flour and butter that you cook for a bit before adding a liquid, beurre manié is an uncooked paste that you add to a liquid. Both are good, but they're used in different applications.
See, when I make gravy I make a veloute.
Ever tried subbing mashed beans for butter? I tried it when I was out of butter and it worked a treat!! You should do a subs video!
Broad Bean purée is really good. My grandmother wrote out the recipe for my mum decades ago. So good 🤤 Makes a beautiful spread too.
my favorite hack: when cookies get dry and hard bc they’re a lil old (not like gross but just a couple of days), put them in a ziplock bag with a slice of bread overnight! the bread somehow makes them moist and chewy again!
She did that hack a year or so a ago
I microwave it wrapped in a moist paper towel. Works with brownies and unfrosted cakes too.
I’ve done the cake cookies before. I do lemon and strawberry. Half scoop of each and bake them. Tastes like strawberry lemonade. Great for summer :)
Laura McFaul 🤨
The best bake mix cookie is Cherry Chip (with chocolate chips) hands down! Been eating them since I was a kid (in the 80s)
You should have a merch shirt that says, “Chris makes it better”
Would be weird to make others where it when it's about her husband though x)
Alpagaa it would be like a funny inside joke between her and her subscribers.
See, I always made the cake mix cookies with butter instead of oil, I did add a couple tablespoons of sugar to it for my own sweet tooth purposes. Red velvet with cream cheese frosting is amazing. 💙
The cake box cookies I made using butter instead of the oil.
Susan McGlone I like the hack a lot. I prefer making cookies from scratch, but sometimes if I have guests coming over this is the fastest, less messy, route
@@Chocolover5652 I also do home made with all. But some of these hacks I find I need to try just to see how they are lol but I'm old school cooking and baking and I do not use oil in everything.
Cookie hack that I actually LOVED: drop the baking sheet while they’re baking to get a sorta ripple effect. The cookies end up chewy in the inside and crispy on the edges.
All credit to TH-camr Joshua Weissman!!
Could you explain the hack further? I would appreciate it very much. Good baking hacks are life.
Ah I don't know if this really a hack or something people do but when I make a cake mix I like replacing half the water with coffee creamer. It's really good.
"Baking shouldn't be work. Right? RIGHT?!"
Me, a professional Baker- 😐😅
Jordan Stoop I felt that 😂
So question, should she have used the whisk attachment to fluff the eggs or does it not matter 🤔?
@@HeatherBop2011 doesn't really matter. She would have needed the paddle for adding the dry anyways, so in this case, either one is fine.
As a prof baker, do you find yourself constantly critiquing vids like this?
@@DauntlessDame42 not necessarily videos like this, where people are testing things that may not work, but videos where people are just baking for fun (like jennamarbles baking a cake for her boyfriend lol) can really frustrate me 😅 I know not everyone knows how to ice a cake or how to make certain things, but what I consider the basics of baking can be really hard to watch other people do
100% love Chris's shirt!
Sam Gangee's po-ta-toes all the way!
I need a full video of Christopher’s recipes!!!
Sitting here watching you making brownies (my favorite dessert) with no access to brownies... hard day I'm having
Uber eats? Or something similar that's the only one I can think of 😭😭 pizza hut? Do they still have brownies?
Especially with those close ups of her spreading it!
Adding 1/2 cup mayonnaise to a cake mix makes it more moist. Also can be used as a replacement for eggs or oil if you are out.
Yassss Franchesca 🙌🏻🙌🏻
And brownies 🤤
If you're working with any sticky ingredients (e.g. corn syrup), try spraying your measuring cup/spoon with pam or cooking spray beforehand so it doesn't stick!
mmmal6 I do this too, with molasses, honey, etc.
Warm water also works well!
now i’m wondering: considering the homemade was too cake like when not split baked, and the box mix was too fudgy when split baked, if you take box cake mix and split bake it in a square pan, do you get a brownie???
Maybe we can all share a favorite either baking or savory recipe dish, like a family favorite and you can try it! Plus, we all get to share recipes :)
I love this idea!
Hi Rachel and Chris!
At 09:35 you were wondering what else to do with icing sugar. Here in the Netherlands we call it sugar powder and we mostly use it to dust our pancakes and 'poffertjes' with. (Dutch pancakes are slightly different than the US pancakes and poffertjes is an old traditional Dutch dish ).
Love your videos!
No so much of a hack, but I never time my cakes once they’re in the oven. As soon as I can smell them(that classic ‘cake’ smell), they’re done. It’s always worked for me haha 🎂
I can never do that, I need to work with a timer. I just hate it when a recipe says bake until golden brown. My mother always touches the top of the cake (whilst its still in the oven) to check if it's fully baked, I've tried but still can't tell if it's filled baked.
@Kimkmt I do the same! That's the best way to tell, especially when you're cleaning and doing other things as you're baking. Haha. 🙌🏼💁🏻♀️ Although the toothpick thing works really well too. 🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️
My whole family does it the same way, and the classic "stick something in it to make sure it's cooked"
The nose knows!
Alton's Cocoa Brownies recipe has been my favorite, go-to brownie recipe for years, so I love that you're trying it on your channel! It is a super heavy brownie so I make it in a 9x13 pan so they're thinner. Add a glass of milk and it's sooooo good.
Rach your hair looked so good today. I just watched Bon Appetit’s video with Chris Morocco making lasagna. It looked so good! Can you & your Chris make it for a video?
I just enjoy these videos, and watching you and your hubby is so fun!
Cake strips for beautiful flat cakes. Makes it so much easier for stacking and decorating a cake!
I just want to say thank you for your videos and for you being you. You have helped me tremendously when I have been having rough days. And you always can get a smile out of me. So thank you. I am so happy for your little boy to join you soon!
I make cookies all the time out of cake mix!
I use 1/2 cup oil and 2 eggs and my personal favorite is using lemon cake mix! Then I melt canned vanilla frosting and drizzle it on top. Yum! 😋
McKenzie Rasmussen trying this tomorrow, sounds yum
Yes! The lemon cake mix makes AMAZING cookies!!!
McKenzie Rasmussen lemon cake mix cookies are great and so are strawberry cake cookies!
These are my favorite videos and you are absolutely my favorite TH-camr. I'm so excited for your new baby!
I love how Chris took a blindfold out of nowhere and was like "alright get me the taste test", we stan a confident king
A really dark chocolate brownie with cream cheese frosting (that is slightly tart but still sweet) is amazing! It balances the darkness of the brownie out.
8:28 Chris' shirt over here giving me life!
Yessss, love these baking (related) videos!!
My baking hack: I thought everyone knew this but my friends didn’t so here goes, when you scoop up drying ingredients into your measuring cup, (say flour) take a butter knife and use the back edge flat part to even out the top perfectly. Just run it along the rim of the measuring cup and voila, exactly perfectly flat!
I thought everyone knew this too! I’ve been doing this forever 😂
Also if you stab the knife into the flour then level it, there will be no air gaps inside the cup so it's guaranteed to be EXACTLY a cup every time, that's why some people shake or bang the cup before levelling also, cos it removes any empty space
Yeah I've been doing that since I was 8!
You’re supposed to spoon the flour into the measuring cup and then level off with a knife. If you scoop the cup into the flour you’ll compact the flour and always get more flour by weight then you need.
@@user-np1yb2yn2w yeah
I love brownies frosted with a light mocha buttercream. Yum.
You should try strawberry cake mix cool whip cookies! They are amazing!! could also use lemon or orange cake mix. It does better with the fruity flavors!
Yay early birthday gift. I love watching your hacks videos and getting to watch a baking one the day before my birthday is the best.
I make homemade buttermints with icing (powdered) sugar.
For poached eggs, instead of using the vinegar or the swirling hack I crack the egg into one of those metal sift things(like the ones with small holes people use to dust powdered sugar onto things with) and it gets rid of the loose egg white but the stiff egg white stays on the egg. cook it as you normally would a poached egg and it comes out perfect every time.
Rachel sounded like she was about to cry when she said "it has a very, like strong artificial vanilla scent"
I always put some yoghurt in brownies or cakes to make them more moist inside. Half a cup or so depending on how big the recipe is. It is also good to separate the egg yolks from whites, beat the whites last and incorporate them gently in the batter as the last step. Really excited for that video! ❤️
I freaking love you!!🤣🤣 calling the mixer by her full name, glad I’m not alone!😂😂😂
Loving the new transitions Rach! Very profesh ❤️❤️❤️❤️
I make “birthday cake” rice crispy treats, where I put half a cup (a whole cup if you want it sweeter) of the funfetti cake mix into the marshmallow butter mixture! Then make the rest into cupcakes!
You can also drizzle white chocolate on the top of them!
....so not baking technically, but still good 🤣🤣
Your testing hacks and recipe videos are my favorites!
A good trick/hack I learned is whenever you're making boxed cake or brownies, switch the oil with butter and the water with milk. This makes the batter much more fluffy, tastier, and more fatty😂
I watched one video and now I'm obsessed with you!!! 😍😍😍😍
CHRIS' SHIRT THOOOOO I can't be the only tolkiendili around here.
You are not alone
We're with you!
Here I am once again... Watching your videos the first time to fall asleep (you just give me happy calm feelings) just to watch it again tomorrow while doing cardio 😂😘
Oh my gosh I thought i was the only one who did this with TH-cam videos!!!! 😂 I love this, so happy I can help!
I love Alton Brown!! lol he's hilarious.
Hey girl! Your voice is so soothing and so wholesome that I love to watch your videos saturday nights right before bed to get all relaxed for sleep :)
lol "trick question you love me"😂
I love that you guys love the BA Test kitchen as much as I do!!!
But now I want Chris's brownie recipe
I NEED A GOOD BROWNIE RECIPE FOR WHEN I NEED BROWNIES
Much love from Melissa to Rach
Love this video! Love baking and love your adorable little camo covered bump! WIN WIN WIN
Great video, seemed like LOTS of work! My favorite hack is to throw in a handful or two of chocolate chips into everything. It seems like you already know that one :)
To peel garlic:
Cut of ends
Put in a plastic container with a lid and shake it for about 30 seconds and then they are peeled :)
grinding sugar into powdered sugar is something ive done when i was out and couldnt go to the store.
Cooking hack for juicy chicken: flatten chicken to 1/4 inch thick. Dry season however you like. Cook on medium-high for one minute per side (get a nice brown color on both sides). Cover and turn heat to low for ten minutes (don’t take the cover off to check on it!). Turn heat off and (still covered) let sit for another ten minutes. It’s done and crazy delicious. This is when you would add any sauces.
This is for valentine's ahaha
Yeah sure its not an excuse at allll ahahah
Since you are having a baby soon, one of my favorite hacks that I used while nursing was adding a couple of TBS of nutritional yeast to a package brownie or cookie mix (just for ease). Helped boost my milk sooo much! May need to add a tsp or two of water if it makes your dough too think tho
I have also once been fooled by the sugar in the blender hack. It was a disaster.
I love how the brownie mix could’ve been it’s own separate video, but then there was more!! I love it
Well now I wanna know Chris' brownie recipe!
Just found this channel. Love it. Adorable and so much fun to watch. ❤️
I'm not even kidding, I'm making brownies as I watch!
Gema Sanchez same 😭
Okay now we definitely need a Chris’s recipe vs other for all the ones we keep hearing that his recipe is better for. I am dying to know if in direct comparison is Chris’s actually better??? And I mean who would say no to more Chris, he is just as entertaining and the two of you together cooking is just the best! Congrats on the baby boy too by the way! Not long now!
Where can I find Chris’s recipe? Want to try his brownies 😊
Hi Rachel, I think my favourite baking hack is to use a packet of pudding with box cake to make a airy but not crumbly texture. Just add the pudding mix to the dry ingredients and follow the recipe for the cake mix, the only extra step is to separate the egg whites, whip stiff then fold them in at the end. If the cake batter is super dry then add a bit of milk before folding in the egg whites.
Rachel says “out” as if she’s irish 😂
Omg! I made the Alton Brown brownies after watching this. They’re the best brownies I’ve ever had. Thanks Rachel
You're my favorite couple in the entire world. And when you kiss us in the end, well i love it. My heart skips a beat and i become happier. Thank you ❤️
I think you should do a video of you trying our families baking/cooking recipes!
Try to make Cupcake Jemma's NY style cookies, you'll never bake other cookies.
I've been on a long long quest to find the ultimate cookie, for years, this is the one, trust me.
Guy - that’s good to know, I’ve had Levains cookies so I’ll be keen to try Jemma’s ASAP!
@@pip0la51 Enjoy, they really are the closest thing, crumbly exterior and a soft gooey center with pockets of melted chocolate!
1 tip though, and that's what I prefer after following the recipe as it is once or twice and only then making adjustments:
They tell you to make each cookie 125g, I know that Levain cookies are gigantic but 125g was too much for me, I found 80-100g will give in a good size cookie.
Other than that, amazing recipe!
I’ve done the funfetti cookies many times, I think you used the same recipe that I did, I didn’t add chocolate chips but mine always come out really pillowy and soft, they are sooo good
My baking hack I swear by is when a recipe requests vanilla essence and you don't have any (let's be honest, we've all been there) to throw in a shot of brandy instead 😀
"Standing feels like work" amen sista!
I agree with Christopher, middle brownies are the best!
It isn't my always recipe, but I like the cookies you add vanilla pudding mix to.
You don’t even need corn starch in the sugar. Just put sugar in the mill and you get powered sugar. That’s what powered sugar is after all.
I think she did that. It was the cup that was in between the one with corn starch and powdered sugar and it was still super grainy.
Can't be a baking hack video without the oven interrupting Rachel lol😂😂
I am new and i was watching all her videos and i saw this video and i was like why it has just 1k views and then i saw the time and i was like oh its new video 😅
I've done the icing sugar substitute before and it worked really well for me
I love this video! And I haven’t even watched it yet
Your hair looks amazing!
Don't freak out: Mayonnaise....
Whenever I make a chocolate cake or brownie, I prepare it according to the package and add about 1/3 cup mayonnaise. I don't love baking, so I tend not to have enough baking ingredients on hand to whip things up from scratch. That 1/3ish cup mayo gives it a little something extra that you don't expect from a boxed cake or brownie.
I know, mayonnaise is a love it or hate it kind of condiment. We have two kids who love it and two who despise it. Little do they know that I add a dollop in their favorite treats to make them come out just they way they like.
I can only imagine the science behind it is the egg and oil-- it makes the finished cake product more moist and fluffy, and fudge-like brownie.
The trick came from my grandmother who taught me to add it to devil's food cake; I want to say she subbed something with mayonnaise, but I always just add it in there. I've never tried vanilla or any other flavor, in fear that the mayonnaise might take over the light flavor.
I've also used mayonnaise to fry chicken and eggplant when I was out of egg and needed to dredge them before frying. Again, playing on the egg and oil idea.
Give it a shot! Mayonnaise hacks? Sounds gross.
Cookies made from brownie mix!!! Sooo good you should definitely try!!
"let's see if by putting the sugar in the blender I can get powdered sugar"
Something clearly went wrong because that "hack" definitely works
She mentioned something about cornflour which might have been the problem? I was thinking the same, I have done it numerous times when I ran out of icing sugar..
well for me that's how you get powdered sugar so I was a bit surprised that she didn't know that
She didn't blend it long enough, and you have to pulse it because continuous blending will heat it up too much.
Powdered sugar isn’t just sugar. I just checked my box of Domino and it also lists cornstarch as an ingredient.
Please keep doing more of the baking videos
They’re SOO GREAT 🤩🥰🥰🥰🤣😍😍😍
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I’m with Christopher the middle of the brownie is the best!
I always try to bake after watching your videos and it never works 😂😂
Edit: watch “ how to bake that” for the piping tips!!!
Ngl, watching you make the box cake cookies sent me through a rollercoaster of emotions. 1st, I got excited that you were going to do them, then worried you wouldn't do funfetti (the best one), then excited again when you were doing funfetti, then horrified when you added chocolate chips, and disappointed by the end result.
Seriously girl, you gotta try the funfetti again, no chocolate chips, and add funfetti frosting on top. That's one of my absolute favorite sweet snacks.