{"id":247194,"date":"2022-05-24T19:32:06","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T19:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/i-m-a-professional-baker-i-made-5-brands-of-boxed-brownie-mix-to-see-which-is-the-best"},"modified":"2022-05-24T19:32:06","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T19:32:06","slug":"i-m-a-professional-baker-i-made-5-brands-of-boxed-brownie-mix-to-see-which-is-the-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/i-m-a-professional-baker-i-made-5-brands-of-boxed-brownie-mix-to-see-which-is-the-best","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m a professional baker. I made 5 brands of boxed brownie mix to see which is the best."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I used my expertise as a professional baker to rank brownie mixes from five different brands. Alana Al-Hatlani I made brownies using mixes from brands including Pillsbury, Duncan Hines, and Betty Crocker. The brownies from Kodiak Cakes&#8217; mix had a grainy texture and lacked chocolate flavor. The Ghirardelli mix made fudgy brownies that I loved, but Pillsbury&#8217;s were my favorite. As a professional baker, I think a good brownie has a strong chocolate flavor, a fudgy center, and soft edges that aren&#8217;t tough or dry. I tried brownie mixes from Kodiak Cakes, Ghirardelli, Betty Crocker, Pillsbury, and Duncan Hines. Alana Al-Hatlani To find the best grocery-store option , I made Pillsbury &#8216;s, Ghirardelli &#8216;s, Duncan Hines &#8216;, Kodiak Cakes &#8216;, and Betty Crocker &#8216;s versions of brownies using box mixes. For consistency, I scaled all ingredients with identical measuring cups and used an 8-by-8-inch nonstick pan greased with baking spray and lined with parchment paper for each mix. All the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m an expert who tasted and compared store-bought mixes from Pillsbury, Duncan Hines, Betty Crocker, Ghirardelli, and Kodiak Cakes. Here&#8217;s the best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-recipes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}