Every year on November 8, National Brownie Day is celebrated. It is a day for the brownie lovers to rejoice their most loved dessert.
The creation of brownies hales from the Palmer House Hotel in 1893. Bertha Palmer, a prominent Chicago socialite whose husband owed the hotel, asked a pastry chef for a dessert suitable for ladies attending the Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition.
By 1907 the brownie was well established in a recognizable form, appearing in Lowney’s Cook Book by Maria Willet Howard as an adaptation of the Boston Cooking School recipe for a “Bangor Brownie”.
On National Brownie Day, here’s 5-mins in a mug recipe of brownie:
Ingredients
- 3 tablespoons of all-purpose flour
- 2½ tablespoons of sugar
- 2 tablespoons of unsweetened cocoa powder
- A pinch of salt
- 2 tablespoons of oil
- 3 tablespoons of milk
- ½ teaspoon of vanilla extract
- Chocolate chips (optional)
- Whipped cream(optional)
- Vanilla ice cream (optional)
- Assorted nuts (optional)
Directions
- In a standard-sized microwaveable mug, add the dry ingredients (flour, sugar, cocoa powder and salt).
- Next, mix the vanilla extract, oil and milk with the dry ingredients until it forms a smooth, homogenous mixture.
- Feel free to add some chocolate chips into the batter if you’d like a more fudgy brownie or nuts for some texture.
- Microwave for 1 minute continuously and then at 10-second intervals until it is fully cooked. Top with some whipped cream or vanilla ice cream and your mug brownie is now ready!
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