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Fat Witch Brownie and Blondie Mixes
I Paid: $9.99 per 18-ounce box (prices may vary by region)
To a food writer, a $10 price tag on a box of frickin' brownie mix is a dare. The dare is this: "Buy me. If I don't produce the most amazing, luscious, mind-blowing brownies you've ever tasted, you can become outraged at how expensive I am and then subsequently rip me a new orifice of your choosing."
The brownies and blondies produced by the $10 boxes of Fat Witch Bakery mixes are among the most amazing, luscious, and mind-blowing brownies and blondies I've ever tasted.
It's difficult to step out and say "best ever," because there are a lot of good brownies to sort through, but the Fat Witch mixes produce an amazing product. The blondies tasted primarily of butter and brown sugar, and were substantial in terms of weight and texture. High-grade bittersweet chocolate chips (which come with the mix) dotted the almost butterscotchy cake. The brownies were neutron dense and insanely rich and fudgy, with an almost glasslike finish on the bottom where the brownies had touched the pan.
At least part of the secret to these mixes is that they are an extremely fine and consistent powder. When you mix that powder with melted butter (which you supply) and eggs (likewise), the resulting batter is dense, smooth, and firm. The brownie directions ask you to melt actual high-grade chocolate chips (which come in the box) along with the butter, meaning that the chocolate flavor is as real as it comes and it's also integrated into the brownies at a fundamental level.
Is $10 too much to pay for a pan of brownies you're required to make yourself? That's a personal question you'll have to wrestle with. But if any mix was worth the cost, this would be it.
I wills buys these if I see them! The brownies, not the blondies, of course. Thanks for the suggestion. I don't think I'll ''spluge' on high quality french butter either', nkeane. I won't splurge on it either.
nkeane, why on earth would one use a cultured butter for brownie baking? It would make more sense to use a high quality sweet butter, and while good butter is 'spendy', it's not so spendy that you can tack on more than $2 for butter and eggs unless they're using a whole package of butter. Considering that buying a dozen brownies from a good bake shop would probably be well over $15, this doesn't...+READ
nkeane, why on earth would one use a cultured butter for brownie baking? It would make more sense to use a high quality sweet butter, and while good butter is 'spendy', it's not so spendy that you can tack on more than $2 for butter and eggs unless they're using a whole package of butter. Considering that buying a dozen brownies from a good bake shop would probably be well over $15, this doesn't seem like a bad option for those who aren't great bakers but want to produce a good product.-COLLAPSE
just to be fair, these brownies are not $10....they are $10+butter(the good stuff is pretty spendy these days)+eggs(less so but still not inconsequential). now lets say, since this is an extremely high end mix, you spluge on high quality french butter and some local farm fresh, organic eggs. The price would be more like $15. For brownies.
"It's difficult to step out and say "best ever," because there are a lot of good brownies to sort through..."
Thank you, James, for not succumbing to the popular modern pastime of hyperbole.
Mr Taster
might have to try it - I've been a long-time fan of their mail-order brownies, but like the idea of having them come out of my very own oven instead of being shipped over 300 miles.... Fat Witch is worth it - amazing stuff.
no way 2 just tee fi this pricy marketing ...(I wish I had come up with this.....:)
but, at $7.99 for the mix plus $8.62 for shipping-you're better off buying a small tin of premade Fat Witch brownies.
@stargazer, use the drop down link on the company website and select brownie mix and you will see it. The mix is also avail in retail stores.
Where can you find the mix? I don't see it on the webiste, just the brownies by themselves.
US Post Office Standard Mail service is $8.62 for one brownie mix delivery.
Amazing!
The mixes are "only" $7.99 on Fat Witch's website itself, though I imagine there are shipping fees, which I didn't check out.
Given the 2.95 price tag for one Fat Witch Brownie, the 10.00 box is a bargain.