sing like wildflowers
My full and kooky life as a homeschooling mommy to 2 great kids, raising a child with HLHS (Hypolastic Left Heart Syndrome), coping with depression, following Jesus, and being much too camera happy.
recent posts
- Silent Sunday: reminiscing a relaxed time with family right before mom’s constant emergencies since last November & Ellis’ emergencies last fall
- Feeling this rabbit flop
- Field trip to Roaring Camp and the redwoods
- Recap of 8th hospitalization and now 9th hospitalization for mom
- Have a safe and happy Halloween!
about
Welcome to my blog! My name is Esther and I’m so happy you are here. I’m an avid nature photographer and a daydreaming thinker. My posts revolve around photos of nature’s beauty, homeschooling adventures with my 2 kids, sporadic reflections on my child’s heart condition, Bible reading reflections, gardening feats, and other mish mash things. Hopefully you’ll leave encouraged, pensive, or smiling at the simple things of life. Thank you for stopping by and hope you’ll find some interesting posts to read!
8 responses to “Wordless Wednesday: 2-5-’25. Spongey brownies… not a good batch”
What’s browni. ? What you made?
Bummer! It’s so frustrating when a cooking/baking project doesn’t turn out! Our last brownies were raw in the middle. Then we tried cookie bars and the same thing. I swear that the edges were starting to look burnt! 🤷🏻♀️
I understand!! We were getting so discouraged and I wanted to quit making another batch, but we committed to presenting them next month. We finally got it right; stir less while the chocolate batter is cooling or else the extra air pockets will make the batter watery, use a toothpick to check if the brownies are baked fully, use the middle rack of the oven, and let it cool thoroughly before cutting them into pieces.
But with applesauce and avocado oil, they would be good for you! They look good to me. I am not a cook or baker though.
Linda, I had no idea how difficult it is to bake brownies from scratch. Ellis and I were getting discouraged when all the brownie batches were coming out under baked, which we realized after cutting into them. It’s supposed to be fudgy and I thought that’s how it was supposed to be. Yep, we’re baking newbies.
I would hate to see how baked good came out with me making them … I made one batch of slice-and-bake cookies and burned them so that was it for me.
It takes several tries and learning from your mistakes. The experience was full of frustration and dashed hopes when cutting into the brownie would show a soggy inside underneath the crispy top layer. Ellis and I would just sigh (heavily)! And I’d have to clean up. Oh, the insult to injury. lol
The clean-up is the insult to injury. One time, maybe 25 years ago, I told my mom we should make these cute green cornflake wreaths for Christmas. I saw it in a woman’s magazine. Cornflakes held together by marshmallow I think and you died it all bright green and put some cinnamon dots for berries. It got dye on the counter, in the bowl, a sticky gooey mess and we ended up not finishing nor eating them. Mom made me clean up as it was my idea. The following year, I bought her an electric cookie press to make little cookies … I don’t know why as we all had our favorite cookies, but no. The cookie dough got jammed and what came out of the press no more looked like stars than I did. That was it for that ordeal.