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Baking requires specialty skills and exacting quantities, unlike cooking a family dinner, and at first can seem a bit daunting.  It is recommended that novice bakers follow recipes step by step, until they get an understanding of the consistency of the recipes they are baking, as well as the peculiarities of their ovens. But like anything, the more you practice, the more confident and capable you will become.

Baking Brownies is a specialty form of baking as it requires one to work with chocolate. Some recipes recommend you melt chocolate in a saucepan, others suggest you melt it a bowl over a saucepan of boiling water (not allowing the bowl to touch the water), while still other recipes may require you to melt the chocolate in the microwave.  For our recipes, we recommend that you choose the method you are most comfortable with.  There is no right or wrong answer.

The more you bake, the less likely you are to measure ingredients exactly, as the consistency of the mixture, and the taste, is what you aspire to.  You also become more confident in substituting ingredients, and soon the possibilities become endless. 

With a bit of flair, a standard chocolate brownie could be transformed.  Imagine taking that simple recipe, and adding some raspberries soaked in champagne, and some white chocolate chips and crushed macadamias to add some richness; the possibilities are endless.

If you could create a designer a brownie, what special ingredients would it include?





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    Four brownie loving  Post Graduate students from Swinburne University of Technology: Anita, Tanya, Suzie and Maddy.
    We come from four different walks of life and live in four different parts of the Australian Eastern Seaboard, but thanks to social technologies we've come together to bring you this fantastic website and blog.
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