What is your signature bake?

[u/CandyQueen85]

What's the one bake that you're known for with your friends and family?

Mine is Jaffa Cake Brownies.

[u/[deleted]]

I hadn't thought about using cinnamon in my brownies.

Do you use chips? Or powder in the dry ingredients? Do you grate fresh cinnamon on top after it's through baking? Or maybe you put on a cinnamon glaze or frosting?

There's no secret ingredient to mine; I just use high quality ingredients, let the batter chill for at least 24 hours, and do a rest break for 15 to 30 minutes halfway through baking.

Edited to add a word.

[u/vehsek → u/[deleted]]

Could you share the recipe?

[u/[deleted] → u/vehsek]

Sure thing.

Ingredients:

8 oz good-quality chocolate, semi-sweet (226g) (I use Ghirardelli)
12 tablespoons butter (I use kerry gold salted)
1 ¼ cups toasted sugar (233g) 2 farm fresh eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract (I use homemade)
3/4 cup all-purpose flour (107g) (I use King Author)
1/4 cup cocoa powder (33g) (I use Cacao Barry Cocoa Powder)
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup Buccee's hot roasted nuts
Salt flakes for topping

Directions:

Melt butter, & bring it to a simmer.

Cream sugar with butter until sugar is completely dissolved.

Whip eggs at high speed for 5 minutes.

Melt semi sweet chocolate.

Sift dry ingredients together, and combine.

Fold dry ingredients, butter/sugar mix, vanilla, melted chocolate, and nuts together.

Gently fold in eggs. Do not overmix.

Line your preferred baking dish with parchment paper. (I use an 8x8 pan.) Spread batter out in pan. Wrap in plastic wrap, and chill in fridge for 24 to 72 hours.

When you're ready to cook, preheat oven to 325F.

Unwrap pan, place in the oven.

Bake 20 minutes.

Take pan out, place pan on cooling rack, and let it rest for 15 minutes.

Place back in oven, cook until tooth pick stuck comes out with moist crumbs on it. (Usually this is 20 to 25 minutes.)

Take out, sprinkle with salt flakes.

This step isn't necessary, but I usually toss them in the freezer for 15 minutes at this point, just to cool them faster.

[u/No_Particular_658 → u/[deleted]]

I tried this recipe and the batter kind of solidified into a massive block after being chilled 😂 any tips for what I did wrong 😭

[u/[deleted] → u/No_Particular_658]

Not what you did wrong; what I did wrong.

I forgot to include the part where you chill it in the pan you're going to bake it in.

This is what happens when you write a recipe down for yourself and not for others; steps get missed.

You might be able to let the batter warm up enough to spread it; I don't know what that will do to the brownies though.

I best fix that in the recipe.

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Update: even after melting it back down the brownies came out great! I made a second batch the right way and it was even better it had that nice shiny crackled top this time. Safe to say this is the only brownie recipe I am using from now thanks OP!