Journal

Cooking for my Birthday Part VIII

Dear Chocolates El Ray website,

I have really enjoyed the chocolate that I've recently bought form one of my local stores. I have recently used your chocolate in one of my favorite recipes, the smell and the taste of the chocolate certainly made me desire to use more of your chocolate.

I also purchased some of your ICOA White Chocolate, which I tried to use, making your white chocolate brownie recipe on your website. I consider myself a fairly competent cook, most of my creations, following recipes or not, go over well...and I am probably a tough critic on myself. I wanted to understand the directions, but they are just not very well written.

I had to make several guesses (Flour mixture?, does that mean the flour and salt?; What is the pan size?; How am I supposed to know if they have cooked, what do I test to see if it is done?;) as to how to actually prepare the brownies.

They are cooling right now, and even though the batter taste test before I put them in the oven seems like they should be good, one cannot be sure. You could take a fine example from the Scharffen Berger website and the way they have recipes there.

Thanks,

sam