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Tips, Tricks & Just Good Advice! => Good to Know! - A collection of How-To's & Sage Advice => Photography and Food! => Topic started by: drbiggles on March 30, 2013, 10:02:52 PM
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Hey,
I saw a picture a week ago of someone who had made a brownie chocolate chip cookie muffin thingy in a muffin pan. I just HAD to see if I could bake the same. Unfortunately the picture of the end product didn't come with baking instructions, so had to wing it. I think I got it though.
The family was perturbed to say the least, they weren't allowed to have any until I got a decent shot of my creation. Both my 17 year old and my 12 year old boy were behind me the entire time, hovering.
A rectangle white plate, with some props, a shoe-mounted flash pointed up and to the right bouncing off my white kitchen cabinets gave me the light. I tried a few auto settings, but couldn't get what I wanted. Set it to full manual, set my shutter to 250/sec and brought the aperture down until it looked right. I used a 105mm micro f2.8 lens. All told took about 8 minutes to get it done.
xo, Biggles
(http://www.cyberbilly.com/chicken/MuffinCookies.jpg)
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Nice composition and depth of field Biggles!
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Those look really good
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Mmmm, Cookie Cakes!! Nice job!
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I was thinking about eating healthy stuff today... ???
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I was thinking about eating healthy stuff today... ???
We're human, our minds come up with all kinds of crazy things. Just don't act upon them.
xo, Biggles
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Thank you all and happy easter!
xo, Biggles
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So..what was the recipe ands method please? Pam .☆´¯`•.¸¸. ི♥ྀ.
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So..what was the recipe ands method please? Pam .☆´¯`•.¸¸. ི♥ྀ.
Here's the scoop. The image that inspired me showed these things maybe an inch thick. I tried both that thickness and then enough to make it the size of a regular muffin. The consensus was that the larger ones were far preferable.
Instead of using mixes for both, I used Judy Rosenberg's recipe for chocolate chip cookies. Her recipe I like the most, I believe that's because the ratio of brown sugar to white favors the brown. I used Duncan Hines boxes brownie mix, buy 2 because I ran out of brownie mix halfway through. The originals showed that cupcake papers were NOT used, I would suggest using them for ease of removal.
Set oven to 350, rack in center. After 1 trial, I found that 6 minutes of baking for the brownie (added first to the muffin hole) was about right. Using a fancy scooper with the auto-flipper-outter function that gives you a 1" cookie ball seems to work exceptionally well. Add a scoop of cookie dough to the 6 minute brownie, cook another 20 minutes if you're making the larger muffin cookies. 15 minutes for the smaller version, still 6 minutes on the brownie.
As with all baking things, times vary. So, keep your eyes on it and maybe make 2 muffin cookies first to get your procedure down. If I do it again, I might try 375 degrees. And that would screw with baking times, but alls fun in baking sugary treats, eh?
xo, Biggles
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This is really great!
My mom makes the exact same, only with a cream cheese filling. Kinda like a Cannoli muffin. ;D