Brownie Disaster!!?!


Question: it said 1/4, but i accidentally put 1 Cup of Water! Now it is very watery. This is for my boyfriend and i wanted to make it perfect .. Is there anything i can do to balance out the 1 cup of water i put??

Betty Crocker brownie mix
2/3 cup of Veg. Oil
2 Eggs
1/4 Cup of water

.. anything? please??

(mature answers only please)


Answers: it said 1/4, but i accidentally put 1 Cup of Water! Now it is very watery. This is for my boyfriend and i wanted to make it perfect .. Is there anything i can do to balance out the 1 cup of water i put??

Betty Crocker brownie mix
2/3 cup of Veg. Oil
2 Eggs
1/4 Cup of water

.. anything? please??

(mature answers only please)

Since you are using a mix, I am guessing you are not a serious cook, therefore my best advice is to run buy another three boxes of brownie mix. Throw them all in together, add more oil and eggs and bake in rotation if your pan is only the size for one batch.

This will give you enough brownies to send a bunch to work with the boyfriend to share with his co-workers as well as you some for your friends and co-workers. Don't forget you can freeze some in Ziploc bags for in a few weeks as well.

You'll not only make him happy, he'll think your great to have though of his friends as well!!!

Add more flour?

nope. start over. otherwise you have to put 4 times all the other ingredients

Sorry, you screwed it up...there really isn't anything you can do.

Add flour?

i dont think that u could fix it the only thing that might work is if u add more brownie mix

just drain some water out w/o dumping the batter. Im not sure if flour would help or not.

add about 1/4 C flour, 1/4 C cocoa powder, and 1 egg.

more brownie mix, use some flour and cocoa, some sugar until it looks right, 1 cup of sugar to 1 cup of flour and add an egg

try and cook it longer the same thing happened to me if that doesn't work 4 some reason then you'll hav to make new ones

Add more flour

Maybe a mix of cocoa powder, flour, and sugar would do it. Do it to taste, though. And the outcome may be a little hard.

You put in four times the amount of water, so to fix it you'd have to put in three more boxes of brownie mix, 6 more eggs, and 2 cups of oil. Then you'd have to divide it up into four pans, IF you even had four pans available (I don't).

Better just toss it out and start over.

multiply all of the ingredients by 4... you will have a ton of brownies if you use all of the batter, but I suppose you don't have to bake all of the batter. All that matters is that it will not be watery any more.

Get 3 more packages of brownie mix and make a bunch of brownies or just get one package and start over completely. They'll taste weird if you try to fix it as is.

Umm...can't guarantee, but what about adding some peanut butter? or maybe mix in some powdered sugar? or if you have like another cake/brownie boxed mixed laying around, just pour in some of that. One more thing that might help is melting some chocolate and pouring it in to thicken it a little. That is so sweet that you're doing that for him! No matter how it turns out, icing can fix anythg! lol lol. Don't worry, he'll love it! Good Luck! :-)

i would honestly just start over....there is no way thats just too watery....dont feel bad one time while baking a cake i forgot to put in the oil :p it sucked!

HHMM..Do you happen to have another box of brownie mix. You could just add some of it to it. If not maybe you could add some self rising flour to it and make it thicker but if you do it may become more cake like than brownie. Im not really sure of anything else. Hope this helps...Good Luck

have you stirred it yet? if you haven't just go and scoop some of the water out. if anything just run to the store and get another box and just don't add water this time. you can just drain it. the flavor won't go away i promise:)

Sorry, but if you put in 4 times as much water as it called for and you already put in the eggs and the oil, it's a lost cause. You can try baking it but it will take longer and probably, at best, taste like bar cookies.

If you just add flour, you won't have enough cocoa or sugar or leavening agent in the batter to balance the flavor.

more flour ,add a bunch on nuts, more cocoa, one extra egg yolk........do all of the above,cook at a lower temp. to give it a chance to dry out some[extend cooking time]
brownies are;flour eggs cocoa sugar butter bpowder salt vanilla.
put above dry ingrediants in,give it a try????

Hm.. You could try adding maybe a 1/2 cup of flour to balance it out (gradually stir in flour until you get the texture right).

Bake them, and if this doesn't work, then resort to plan b.

Plan B:

Crumble brownies. If you've got ice cream, you could either stick a handful of brownies in the blender with vanilla ice cream and make a milkshake, or you could just crumble pieces on top to make a sundae.

You could also probably squish them into the bottom of a pan and treat it like a crust. Look up a "seven layer bars" recipe and treat it like an extra layer (I think you add sweetened condensed milk, chocolate, and coconut, off the top of my head)

Basically, you've got a crumbly chocolate cookie type garnish you can now throw onto another dessert.


-OR- (Just thought of this)

Get chocolate ice cream and mini marsh mellows and take your crumbly pieces (a la Coldstone) and make your own version of Rocky Road ice cream!

better off starting over. if you add another box of brownie mix, you'll have to then double your pan size and hope it comes out right. sorry, wish I have a better answer for you.

maybe you could try boiling it to reduce it, and have most of that water evaporate until its thick? i dont know, maybe add flour and cocoa powder too. Better off starting over

get 3 more mixes, add to your watery one, and add no water this time.





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