Jen kindly sent us three recipe options for small batches of brownies baked in a bread loaf pan. Jen says: “Make a small batch of brownies when you need a little “comfort food” fix. It will help make your supplies of these ingredients last longer.”
The traditional recipe utilizes fresh ingredients.
Both just-add-water mixes use powdered eggs and powdered vanilla extract. You can find powdered vanilla extract in upper-end grocery stores right near the liquid vanilla extract and on Amazon.com.
Just-add-water mix #1 has straight coconut oil.
Mix #2 replaces some of the coconut oil with butter powder and water and thus the brownies are a little less oily.
Both mixes can be prepared in advance with water added later when you’re ready to bake. However, before you make multiple mixes, make one batch to try out first. These recipes produce fudgy brownies, not cake-like brownies. These are not overly sweet brownies.
INGREDIENTS (Three Variations)
| Traditional recipe | Just-add-water mix #1 | Just-add-water mix #2 |
| ¼ cup butter | ¼ cup coconut oil | 2 tablespoons coconut oil |
| 3 tablespoons butter powder | ||
| ½ cup + 1 tablespoon sugar | ½ cup + 1 tablespoon sugar | ½ cup + 1 tablespoon sugar |
| ¼ cup + 2 tablespoons cocoa powder | ¼ cup + 2 tablespoons cocoa powder | ¼ cup + 2 tablespoons cocoa powder |
| ¼ teaspoon salt | ¼ teaspoon salt | ¼ teaspoon salt |
| 1 egg | 2 tablespoons egg powder | 2 tablespoons egg powder |
| ¼ cup flour | ¼ cup flour | ¼ cup flour |
| ½ teaspoon vanilla extract | ½ teaspoon vanilla powder | ½ teaspoon vanilla powder |
| ¼ cup water | 1/3 cup water |
Directions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
- Line a bread loaf pan with parchment paper.
- Mix all ingredients together in a medium bowl just until combined.
- Spoon the batter into the prepared bread pan.
- Bake for 23 minutes.
- Let cool 5 minutes in the pan
- Then use the parchment paper to remove the brownies from the pan.
- Let cool on a cooling rack.
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Jen! What a neat idea to include alternatives (or substitutions) for the ingredient list. Thank you for sharing. This was such a neat way to present a recipe!
You’re welcome!!
Be careful of your ingredients, the phony “vanilla” powder is aspartame-non dairy coffee creamer with phony “vanilla like” artificial flavor. This is not for cooking (or human) consumption.