Are Blondies Just Brownies Without the Chocolate? | What’s Eating Dan
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- Are blondies just brownies without the chocolate? Are blondies just cookies in bar form? Spoiler alert: The answer is no to both of these questions. Follow along while Dan explains the science behind chewy, butterscotchy blondies.
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I think the next video should be "are muffins just cupcakes without frosting?"
......or.... is lasagna just spaghetti flavored cake? or are mashed potatoes, just Irish guacamole?
Damn straight.
@@albertesteva9684 are mashed potatoes Irish guacamole?! Hilarious.
Muffins are an excuse to eat cake for breakfast LOL.
It's not far off. Some of those muffins are sweeter than cake.
Oh my! That "milk chocolate is the best chocolate" statement resulted in the most pregnant pause ever! You like starting wars, don't you, Dan?
Oh yeah, Becki. That's exactly why he said it. I'd bet my shirt that he really doesn't believe it.
To be fair, he must not like real chocolate considering milk chocolate contains less actual chocolate than dark 🤷🏻♀️
I think it depends on the texture you are going for. Dark chocolate tastes much better, but milk chocolate has a better creamy meltability. I like to use a mix. The milk chocolate gives a good structural content, the dark gives a stronger flavor. Combined, they work very well. 😎
Dark chocolate works best as just straight chocolate. If you want it as a bar or want the flavor to be front and center, dark is the way to go. On the other hand, milk chocolate is better if you want other flavors to be noticable as well.
Good chocolate is the best chocolate. 55% is probably ideal. Ruby chocolate is awesome too. White chocolate has its place in many applications. Milk chocolate..... Is acceptable. Just not that hershey's crap/
“Milk chocolate is the best chocolate.” Them’s fightin’ words.
I'd personally try darker chocolate anyway
I will fight you then
@@ShadaOfAllThings *we will fight them.
I'm with you M8
and also correct words.
Dan's comic timing + delivery: A+
Nah. The jokes are forced
So true. Harder than it looks, especially on camera.
😂😂😂
@@TanukiOfficial lol, agree to disagree
Loved EVERYTHING about this video!
1) Yes, I did stick around to the end for the hair tutorial (thank you! 🤣)
2) Dark chocolate!!!!
3) Ok, you’ve convinced me to let blondies into my baking rotation. But am I making brownies this weekend? YES
Love love love you Dan. You’re so funny 😆
Dan's acting skills + real scientific facts + hair tutorial = the quality content I've come to expect.
The brownies and blondies recipes are a bonus!
Alton Brown's probably blushing
Everything about this ep is absolutely perfect! The channel, for the most part, is excellent, but What's eating Dan makes it worth subbing, hands down.
I like Lan too. Her voice just carries confidence and encouragement. She's outstanding.
“Video nether-regions” 🤣🤣🤣 my enthusiasm for Dan is the same level of passion he showed for browning butter in this vid
Dan, you're awesome. No doubt. But BROWNIES! AND DARK CHOCOLATE! I will die on this hill. Those who disagree: feel free. Leaves more of the good stuff for me!
Also, props to the editors for the cuts and background music choices! Well done! It matches the intended mood perfectly.
I’m a 70 year old woman and you brightened my day! I’m still smiling. Thank you!
My wife would totally be on your side about milk chocolate being best. I’m more of a fan of darker chocolates. (A nice treat for me is actually to have a chocolate bar so dark that it’s horribly bitter, but then eat it with blueberries. Yummy!!) Anyway, great video! It was very interesting to learn what makes blondes different!
I absolutely am with you on the darkest chocolate you can get. And with fruit, really bumps it. That said I do love the buttery taste of browned butter blondies.
I had a 90something% cacao dark chocolate bar once that I would just snap dime-sized bits off of to savor. Inversely bitter and powerful chocolate flavor
@@DeRien8 Right up my alley.
Finally, I’ve found another soldier in the battle of milk chocolate vs dark chocolate! I didn’t think there was a culinary expert left who preferred the creamy perfection of milk chocolate. All hail Dan!
Dark chocolate always wins when just eating chocolate, but there are some recipes where milk chocolate is better suited. As far as blondies go, my grandma would make the chocolate chip/pecan version every year just for the holidays. So gooey and delicious - but she always called them chip-a-roos, never blondies.
chip-a-roos, so cute! 🥺
could you share the recipe?
@@user-vu2yb1gy4l Oh my, I might have to dig on that one! Nobody has made them since my grandmother passed away, but my Mom might still have the recipe... 🤔
Why, why why did I not watch this prior to grocery shopping ! Gotta run back out for blondie ingredients now!!! Thanks Dan for making food fun and joyful! Love these videos! You get brownie points for the hair tutorial LOL
I love both blondes and brownies. My chance to throw so many add-ins to a base recipe. Love milk chocolate chips and peanut butter chips together. Sinful!!
Oooooooo peanut butter chips that's a great idea!
I was in search of a blondie recipe that had the same "fudgy" texture of a brownie because every one I've had had a dryer cake brownie texture. The best recipe I found used no leavener and I was scant with the flour. This is what I always wanted a blondie to be.
Where did you find the recipe?
@@goncstate93 Look for The Flavor Bender Brown Butter Blondies. Say that fast! I dont think I changed anything.
@@scootertron8332 Thanks for this!
@@daalelli Let us know if you like it! I need to try it again.
Please keep it up this series is great!
Love your column in the magazine, and your videos are even better. Keep up the great work.
Finally, the hair tutorial I’ve been looking for.
I love Dan's pantry cabinets.
Dan has officially lost his damn mind and I want more of it.
I love Dan. He’s such a handsome dude. I’d love to have lunch with him some day.
I don't know which I'm drooling more at, baked sweets or Dan. 🥺
Both at the same time. The bite takes are gold
Im digging the grey in the facial hair! Dan is becoming a silver fox of culinary science!!
Still looks 19, IMHO.
I loved your delivery. Funny , entertaining and educational! ✌️❤️
I love milk chocolate. Right on Dan 😉
You and your team are really good at this.
Excellent video! I loved every second. Probably watch it a couple more times after I click the links!! Thanks Dan!!
This one of my favorite shows. You are very funny in a dry way and that makes me laugh. Thank you
Brown butter blondies are one of my favorite desserts - and even though I love all things chocolate, I would take a blondie over a brownie any day of the week. SO DELIGHTFUL and the flavors are out of this world!
I love your videos, this one in particular. Thank you!
White chocolate blondies r amazing especially if u add walnuts. That’s a true blondie! And honestly, more rare than regular brownies and therefore more decadent imo. But I’m biased. I love white chocolate.
How about discussing beer in one of these videos? I love the food science aspect of these and it would be great fun to explore makes beer so popular
Oh, Dan. Take me on that little rowboat ride 💕
Dan you are the new face of America's Test Kitchen! A STAR is born. Lots of FOOD FUN!
Great!!!! Thanks for sharing 😍. Greetings from CDMX Mexico 🇲🇽
The humor is on point in this episode. Love it!
Great Video.
Dan, you and the team are doing a good job
I'm 1000% okay with more Dan content
Dan, these episodes are the best. Keep them coming.
I really enjoy your videos Dan, so informative. I've been looking for a good chocolate chip cookie recipe. TankU!
Great video. Thanks.
Oh wow, I have never had a Blondie so definatelly I will be trying this recipe great video Dan Souza and Team!
I love your videos Dan! Informative and hilarious!
We ❤ Dan's segments so much
Dan is officially a #LEGEND with this work of brilliance.
Love your sense of humor!
I just made both of the recipes for a family gathering. They were a hit. Too sweet for me, though. The only change that I made to the brownies is I used Guittard Dutch Processed cocoa. For the blondies, I used butterscotch chips instead of chocolate. Also, wondering why use the bottom rack to bake brownies. It took longer to bake. I kept adding 5 minutes, and the toothpick kept coming up wet. Finally moved them to middle rack for a 3rd go of 5 minutes and that did the trick. I always use an oven thermometer. I appreciate all the work that everyone puts into their recipes. I always learn a lot from ATK and CI. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and recipes. Dan, your hair looks great
I honestly thought blondies were brownies without the chocolate, Lol! Thanks for all of your knowledge and wit that you share, Dan! You rock!
I’ve made a “blondie” that uses white chocolate and orange blossom water... it is divine.
That indeed sounds light and blissful
I didn't know blondies were a thing, so now I know something new. Thank you algorithm and Test Kitchen
Milk chocolate is something that, as a dairy intolerance sufferer, I sorely miss. Non-dairy alternatives are rarely as good, though if I were to recommend any, I'd say those that use hazelnut paste instead of milk are the best option, as they have the right smoothness but also add a delicious hazelnut flavour, they're unfortunately quite a bit more expensive, but worth it.
Loved it! And I love you! You’re the best!
Ok Dan, here's my counter: Dark chocolate is the best chocolate to eat standalone (like as a snack) in bar (just less than 1cm thick) like 70%. In Chocolate chip form, the answer may very due to it's high surface area to volume ratio. My answer is as follow: Because dark chocolate is not as sweet, when it immediately enters your mouth, the flavor is very muted. As you chew into it and it becomes aerated, you taste more and more of that delicious chocolate flavor; but again because of that low sugar content, you taste more earthy tones and less sugar. You don't get that sugar "rush." Sugar, by the way, is used as an analgesic for neonates, instead of say opium for adults. Anyway, the reason I mention that is sugar has a very real affect on the brain, whether kid or adult. Because you don't fully get that sugar high you might achieve, you keep eating more in hopes of tasting milk chocolate. If you try this with milk chocolate, you might find yourself getting sick of eating plain chocolate faster (aka not finish the bar in my case) because of the way your dopamine pathways are triggered faster higher, and then normalize to a new baseline. Anyway, food for thought. Let me know how your brain is wired and what type reactions you get when eating chocolate!
Will have to make this!
You made my day Mr. Dan. Love the energy, information, comedy and brownie blondie coalition.
(for a minute I thought the end of the video would involve you coloring your hair ;-) )
I was _waiting_ for Dan to appear as a blond at the end! That would have been, well, memorable.
Thank you, Dan. ☺️
I make cooks illustrated Blondies, and Bon Appitie's brownies. Love them both for different reasons :) Brownies cover up the taste of "green" a lot better, but wow I LOVE blondies. Especially full of butterscotch chips and pecans and I also like to add mini marshmallows :)
What is the taste of green?
Geez, so wonderful ! And thank you too !!
LOL when Dan partook both brownie and blondie at same time. Putting on to do list thanks.
I love this show! Dan’s the best! Sweet, funny, and knowledgeable. I’ve learned a ton. I love the science part. One of my favorite channels for enrichment and butter.
I’ve never had a blondie…so I’ll have to remedy that, lol.
This guy is funny! You should keep him. It was a great review too. Nice. Dare I say he gets his own channel? The poetic analogy toward the end had me dying. What a great video.
Dan is such a doll!
Blondies are so good that they don't need chocolate chips--neither dark or milk. But they do call out for nuts. Pecans, absolutely. First choice. Walnuts a close second. And gosh that old guy hair shot is awesome. Thanks Dan.
I must agree, I think having chocolate chips just takes it too far into choc chip cookie territory and I think it's better for them to stay separate. Focus on that butteryscotchy flavour. Mmmmm.
Dan, I knew there was a reason I liked you…you like “milk chocolate”! You have good taste young man.
“Milk chocolate is the best chocolate”
Me almost immediately: Fucking false 💀💀
I m gonna make them and enjoy thanks
all things dan are fun of course! but the brownie/blondie combo bite was the best! oh and the daydream side topic had me 🤣. thanks dan! ❤️
great recipes for food and hair
You are absolutely correct about milk chocolate by the way! I prefer brownies, but those blondies seem good too.
I love you Dan. I get your humor. 😊
Thanks for this Dan.
My first blonde was in 1983 and it was love but don't let the brownies know because I love them too.
Yes of course milk chocolate is the best chocolate. Who didn't know that 🤔?
I think that I will try this recipe with a mix of white chocolate and butterscotch.
😋 yummy
Good stuff dude! Culinary comedy gold!
This video was seriously hilarious!
I once took brownies and blondies into the office. People were very excited about the brownies and greatly enjoying them but nobody was touching the blondies. Came back at the end of the day and the blondies were all gone but the brownies still had some leftovers. Turns out that blondies don’t survive after the first bite
Nice :) I'll get some chocolate chips and karo this weekend. Great timing for the impending college care package season.
I have an old cookbook from early in the 20th century which has a recipe for " brownies". But, "brownies" were typically not chocolate based at that time. When they did finally become popular they were then referred to almost always as ' chocolate brownies" to distinguish them from the earlier " brownies" which then began to be called "blondies" !!
I love you, Dan.
I loved this video! It made me feel just like his description of eating the Blondie. Oh, and I totally agree that milk chocolate IS the best chocolate 🍫! Now about that brownie recipe sans the chocolate being too sweet. I think I would have to try that and judge it for myself. Can anything really be too sweet? 🤔 😉
Really fun video.
Dan, you're the best!
My grandmother made what the family called white brownies, very likely from one of the Fannie Farmer cookbooks, and served them warm with hard sauce. Talk about sweet!! My dad made them my entire life, and that was a man who missed a career as a baker, just a natural at it. I think it’s time I get out his recipe book and make my own batch. Maybe I’ll make hard sauce too, to remember nana.
More episodes, please!
coconuts make either better.
espessilly since I cover them
with fresh tart cherries(in season!),
anyway
because I do...like them like that..
Dan is adorbs!
For our board game nights, I make KA's chewy brownies. In the fall though, it's Blondie time. I make pumpkin blondies with pumpkin puree & pie spices.
Dan, you're brilliant, knowledgeable and soooo handsome. It's a bonus that you know your way around food/the kitchen. Always great recipes and tips. Thank you, so much.
LOL he looks sooo satisfied chewing on that blondie
I haven't watched him in years, I see there's been quite an evolution in his delivery. Now I need to make some blondies this week, mmm.
Dan, you make cooking so fun and interesting, thumb up
so this is the "america's test kitchen" ethan and andrew are always talking about. very cute!
Dangggg dude - you are hilarious! but also, loved both recipes and can't wait to try them out, funny man..
God I wish I could drop a hundred likes. Dan's charisma is so refreshing
Listening to Dan feels like biting into a brownie. Could do it more often!
These blondies are better than most brownies. I’ve made them several times and they’re always a crowd pleaser!
I love Dan!!!
this is good. I like this.
Milk chocolate > dark chocolate, brownies > blondies, cakey > fudgey. Fight me!
You're right about everything but cakey and fudgey.
As someone who eats unsweetened baking chocolate, dark chocolate all day, every day!
Just started watching the episode, but, to quote a taco shell commercial: "Porque no los dos?" (Why not both?)
I inherited a blondie recipe from my mother, she probably got it in late 60s or early 70s. I’m in the blondie camp but it’s comparing apples to oranges.
I agree with the apples to oranges idea. I love both brownies and blondies. I suspect the reason that many don't think blondies are that great is because you MUST use the BROWNED Butter and I bet few do. Consequently the vast majority of people have eaten inferior blondies.
@@karenryder6317 Mom’s recipe doesn’t use browned butter. I’m not sure it was as much a thing as it is today. However, I started browning the butter a few years ago. I can taste a slight difference but not sure it really matters.