I Tried Making Homemade Cosmic Brownies | Claire Recreates
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Claire Saffitz attempts to recreate Little Debbie Cosmic Brownies at home, starting with a review of the store-bought snack, then testing methods for the brownie base, chocolate glaze, and candy toppings.
From the video
Answers: How do you make homemade Cosmic Brownies?
- recreating store-bought snacks
- brownie recipe development
- tempering chocolate
- making homemade candy toppings
- fudge frosting technique
Ingredients
- 6 oz enriched bleached flour
- 1 1/2 oz unsweetened chocolate
- 6.6 oz bittersweet chocolate
- 5 oz butter
- 200 g sugar
- confectioners sugar
- 100 g water
- 40 g corn syrup
- 3/4 cup whole milk
- vanilla
- paste
- 1 1/2 tsp salt
- 2 eggs
- egg whites
- food coloring
- cocoa powder
What it concludes
- Little Debbie Cosmic Brownies feature a dense, chewy brownie base with a very firm chocolate glaze and hard candy pieces on top.
- Using a high flour-to-chocolate proportion and a water-bath baking method produces a firmer, more uniform brownie texture suitable for copycat Cosmic Brownies.
- Adding corn syrup to a super-saturated sugar solution helps prevent unwanted crystallization when making the candy coating.
- Baking the fudge glaze right on top of the brownie layer creates the desired firm, chewy finished texture.
- Natural food colorings like spirulina and turmeric produce colors that match the muted tones of store-bought candy pieces better than fluorescent dyes.
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