In my last email I talked about getting more detailed reviews from your customers, today I want to talk about something that has been sitting with me for a while now.
Hey Reader,
"My brownies come out perfect sometimes and not the other times- I have no idea why."
"I used the exact same recipe and it just didn't work this time."
"I think my oven is the problem."
I hear versions of this ALL the time in my Instagram DMs and WhatsApp messages.
And what bothers me is not the question itself.
It is where the conversation almost always ends up. And the decision to just try just a new recipe and HOPE it works out better. 😵💫
That hope is costing you more than you realise.
💸Not just the ingredients, though those add up FAST when you are batch-baking and something goes awry (have you SEEN the price of chocolate?).
🫡I mean the confidence it chips away at every single time a bake goes wrong and you have no idea what happened.
🥲The decision to not charge more because you cannot fully trust your own results.
🫥The bulk order you did not take because what if this is one of the times it does not work?
That bothers me. A LOT. 😤
Let me tell you about L.
L came to me after taking multiple brownie courses, not random free YouTube tutorials - PROPER courses, from creators with thousands of five star reviews and genuinely stunning feed aesthetics.
She had done everything right on paper.
But every single time she made brownies, they came out sticky and dense in the wrong way. "Gooey" but not in the fudgy sense that made her family say "this tastes like halwa".
She never launched them. Never even told most people she had been trying because she was so embarrassed by the results.
And she had been blaming herself for it for over a year.
Here is what was actually happening.
The courses L took taught her recipes. Beautiful, well-tested recipes that work perfectly (for the instructor)... when you already understand WHY they work.
But nobody had explained to her what was happening INSIDE the batter.
Nobody told her that when your sugar does not dissolve properly into the fat, you get that sticky, halwa-like texture that never sets right. That the ratio of fat to flour is what decides whether your brownie fudges or firms. That milk chocolate vs dark chocolate directly affects structure and if you swap one chocolate for another without understanding this, your whole bake changes. That undermixing at one stage and overmixing at another create completely different problems, and you need to know which one you are dealing with to fix it. That even 20ml more water CHANGED EVERYTHING!
She was not a bad baker.
She was a baker working without the information she actually needed. And no amount of following the recipe more carefully was ever going to fix that. 💡
Once she understood the science, everything changed.
Not immediately, because real learning never works that way, so initially she would DM me a photo of her brownie and I would tell you what she must do (and ofcourse the VERYYY detailed tutorials answered more questions than she even had). But within a few days she could look at her batter and actually KNOW what was going wrong. She could troubleshoot instead of guess. She could adjust with a reason instead of just trying something different and hoping.
Her family ate the whole tray the next time within 20 mins of her baking it. And she launched her brownies in 5 AMAZING flavours in 1 week!
So here is the thing I keep wanting to say very directly.
Brownie inconsistency is almost never a "recipe" problem. It is a science problem. Every single time.
When you truly understand what is happening in that batter, what each ingredient is doing, what changes when you swap something, what your batter is telling you at each stage- you stop guessing.
And guessing is the ONLY real reason results vary. 💡
Before you go, here are three things worth checking if your brownies are giving you grief:
💛 Your sugar- is it fully dissolving into the fat before you add anything else? Undermixed sugar is the number one reason for sticky, dense, halwa-like texture. It needs time and warmth, not just a quick stir. And THIS is responsible for amazing crackly crust.
💛 Your chocolate- not all chocolate behave the same way. Milk and dakr chocolate have dufferent sugar levels and react differently in a batter. If you are swapping one for the other without adjusting anything else, your structure will be off every time.
💛 Your bake time- brownies look underdone when they are actually perfect. The centre should still have a slight wobble when you pull them out. If you wait until they look done in the oven, they are already overbaked. The carry-over heat does the rest of the work outside. {hec, even cooling the brownie changes things}
Try these before you change anything else. 💛
I built the Bestselling Brownies Bundle because I spent years figuring out through trial and error what I could have learned in months with the right guidance- so you can go from “I make brownies sometimes” to “My brownies SELL OUT!”
And I didn't want that to be everyone's experience.
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Always rooting for your success,
Shubhangi
Redolence Baking School 🎂✨
P.S. If your brownie results still feel unpredictable after trying these, that is exactly the gap I built the Bestselling Brownies Bundle to close. Fudgy brownies, cakey brownies, blondies- the full science behind all three so you know exactly what you are doing and why it works every single time.