What I was Expecting |
I do have to say that I have caught the substitution bug in my own cooking. But with an astoundingly lower success rate than my mothers. My most recent failure? Mayonnaise brownies.
I was always taught that you could use mayonnaise as a replacement if you were out of eggs…and for some reason you needed some sort of baked good right then and you had no possible way to get to a carton of eggs in time to quell the dessert induced storm that was raging in your bosom.
So last night I got the hankering, and guess what? No eggs. And so I thought, "No problem!" I mixed up the batter, threw in a couple of scoops of mayo out of the old mayo jar and 40 minutes later was drawn to the oven on the scent of brownies.
Upon opening the oven door I found this:
Turns out you can't use the kind of mayo with olive oil in it. I'm not sure the picture does these brownies justice. Basically they had formed themselves into a semi-edible brick with a lake of boiling oil on top.
You know though? Once you drained the oil off and patted them dry….
they were still terrible.
And yeah, I still ate them.
Deal.
loaf-
rachel
note: this was written pre-vegan
note: this was written pre-vegan
1 comment:
Ooooo, you shoulda called yo mom first, she woulda told ya that mayo, no matter what kind, just doesn't work with brownies. Cake, yes, but not brownies. I have tried it too many times to know what you are talking about with brick type horrible mess. Sorry! (tofu might work, though!):)
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