as you may recall, the whole reason i started this contest is because my favorite brownies came for a box, so i had planned on sneaking the box brownies into the mix and not telling you until after the reviews were in…except i ran into one problem– they must have changed the ingredients of the box mix. i have been using betty crocker original supreme for years (the one with the hershey’s syrup) and know exactly how they should come out. everyone always raved about them and when i admitted they were from a box people were in disbelief.
in the past two weeks i made that box three times, and each time i had to give them away instead of entering them in the contest. i thought maybe it was my oven, but everything else i have made came out fine. i thought it was the different brand of oil that i used, but then i bought the kind i usually use and it didn’t help. the only thing i can think of is them having changed the recipe.
in any case, contestant zero is a dud. so now i *have* to decide on the perfect from scratch recipe since i no longer have a fall-back!
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