After returning from an amazing week exploring the Galapagos islands we returned to Quito and were reunited with our good friend Euan. After chatting lots and having a great lunch we wondered past a café where a brownie festival was going on…clearly we could not miss this event! We spent the next few hours ‘brownie tasting’ the 9 varieties available which provided an entertaining and tasty afternoon.
Local baker Maria Elisa Balarezo has been baking brownies for 20 years now but this is the first time she has ran an event like this. She currently sells the brownies at the Plaza Foch as well as at Dirty Sanchez.I had a quick chat with her (in espanol : ) !) which you can listen to as part of the video entry!
Brownies deserve to be taken seriously and so as a panel we put together a marking system and set about finding the best brownie there. Each option was marked out of 10 for texture and flavour as well as general comments.
Results:
Taster 1 (James) | Taster 2 (Euan) | Taster 3 (Me!) | Taster 4 (Eric) | TOTAL | ||||||
Flavour | Texture | Flavour | Texture | Flavour | Texture | Flavour | Texture | |||
Amaretto | 9 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 69 | |
Plantain | 9 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 61 | |
Cinnamon | 7 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 59 | |
Coconut | 6 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 57 | |
Raisin | 8 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 56 | |
Vanilla | 6 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 43 | |
Hazelnut | 7 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 42 | |
Cognac | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 41 | |
Almond | 4 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 37 | |
I hope you enjoy the video accompanying this blog – I decided that written words could not do this event justice!
Please let me know where the best brownies are that you have tried!
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2 comments:
Love the film of the brownies,great comentary Laraine
Favourite word used by Jamuel: 'present'
Favourite phrase used by Catherine: 'talk us through what's going on in your mouth'
Favourite shot: the toilets
from Heather! :-)
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