Brownies

Just to show you that the quality of ingredients does make a difference.

These brownies were made from compound chocolate. Compound chocolate is made from cocoa and palm oil. The palm oil replaces the cocoa butter. If you eat compound chocolate it usually will leave an oily residue in your mouth akin to eating shortening. The price of compound chocolate is very cheap RM15.00 to 20.00 for 1.5 kg. However, what happens is that the brownies become cakey (having texture like cake) after baking even though I followed the recipe that supposed to produce Fudgy Brownies. The chocolate taste is very mild and the brownies are mediocre.

I will post a picture of brownies made from Valrhona Bittersweet Chocolate (RM95/kg) and you will see the difference! Taste wise using real chocolate (where the ingredients contains cocoa and only cocoa butter) it is richer, fudgy and luxurious.

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Postscript: Well, to see the brownies using Valrhona, check out the brownies in http://www.panidolce.wordpress.com.