Upon reading countless 5-star reviews, I enthusiastically tried this recipe this afternoon by doubling the recipe to fit my 9x13 pan. The only changes I made were as below: - 1. Reduced butter to 1/2 cup and replaced with 1/2 cup of applesauce like others. 2. Reduced sugar to 1 1/2 cup to suit personal taste. 3. Upped cocoa powder to 1 cup. 4. Added ½ cup of chopped walnuts and 1 cup of chocolate chips. I baked mine for exactly 25 minutes and let is sit in oven for 5 minutes as advised by others. However, I was rather disappointed with the outcome as my brownies turned out to be rather hard; it turned out to be neither fudgey nor gooey at all and it was just like a hardened cake. I was very certain that I DID NOT OVERMIXED NOR OVERBAKED as I had only manually mixed dry and wet ingredients with wooden spatula for about 50 strokes as advised! Will most likely not do this again anymore...

Reviewed On: Nov. 15, 2009

Made this exactly as directed but into 2 small loaves and they turned out to be very delicious! A keeper of course...

Reviewed On: Nov. 8, 2009

Made these muffins just now and followed recipe to T, except added ½ tsp of vanilla. As for topping, like others; I reduced butter to 2 tbsp (to avoid topping being crumbled), ¼ cup of flour, ¼ tsp of cinnamon, 2/3 cup of brown sugar and used spatula to mix all ingredients as suggested... but still found toppings to be plenty and had quite a lot of leftover. I only managed to get 6 large muffins and they turned out to be beautifully tall without any problem of getting out from muffin pan. However, upon tasting our 1st bite moment’s ago, we found batter tasted rather bland, not sure whether it's due to my frozen blueberries tartness or something else. Overall a very nice and extremely easy recipe and certainly a keeper! **UPDATES** Made this again on 04.11.2009 as I still had lots of topping leftover. This time around, I added 1/3 cup of dried cranberries in addition of 1 cup of frozen blueberries and used a mixer to roughly mix the wet ingredients along with sugar before using spatula to fold in the dry ones... just to see any difference! Managed to get 7 big muffins and they are also standing tall and getting out of muffin tin without difficulties. Difference being the 2nd time tasted so much better, must be a result of adding dried cranberries. 5-Star now!!

Reviewed On: Nov. 2, 2009