I do not usually rush to the phone lines or the Walgreen's check out lines to purchase an "as seen on TV" product. After all, $19.99 here and there adds up.
The exception came on November 16. After years of struggling to make my brownies look Martha Stewart perfect, I found myself on a Monday evening shelling out $19.99 plus tax in the check out line at Walgreens, Perfect Brownie Pan in hand. The nifty device is a pan with 18 dividers that are supposed to deliver fresh baked brownies ready for a magazine cover. We'll see.
Back at home, I carefully unpacked the pan and its accessories (the grid and a special stand) and read the instructions. My gold standard brownie mix, Ghiradelli, normally fits into an 8x8 size but I decided to try it in the new pan, which is a bit smaller than 13x9. Perfect! Imagine my excitement as I lowered the grid that bakes with the brownies and forms them into rectangles.
About 40 minutes later, the timer rang, the toothpick was clean and my brownies emerged from the oven. After a short cooling period, 15 or 20 minutes, I carefully lifted the magic non-stick grid. To my amazement I had baked 18 perfectly formed brownies. More than perfect, these fudgy rectangles were picture perfect. Step aside, June Cleaver.
The Stepford wife brownies are now en route to my son in college. Will he think they were store bought?
I'm hungry and want a post about the JD cake pan next - satisfy my cyber food cravings!
ReplyDeleteUpdate! My son loved the brownies. He noticed the perfection and commented that the brownies were more like the ones usually around the edges (his favorite part).
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