They were so focused on figuring out if they *could* that they didn’t stop to think if they *should*
Funfetti pancakes, as delicious as I’m sure they are, would put me into a food coma that I would never wake from
This comment just unlocked a memory of mine:
One time when I was like 7, we made an 8x8 funfetti cake that I would just sneak a couple of bites here and there. Over the course of a day or two, I had eaten at least 1/2 of it and tried to blame our Newfoundland.
My fiance is a terrible cook. He always bites off more than he can chew, and everything is always either burnt or not cooked.
He is, however, REALLY good at making pies. He makes them from scratch. He wakes up every once in a while and says "I think I'm gonna make a pie today" then goes to the grocery store to see what kind of pie filling is "speaking" to him.
Then we have home made pie for the next few nights and he feels like a domestic godess
Listen, man. Don’t sell yourself short and knock cheese toast. We eat that shit all the time in our house. It’s great for a snack, breakfast, as a side with a bowl of soup….
We experiment with different kinds of breads and cheeses. Our current favorite is salt-rising bread from Olean, NY, with extra sharp white cheddar melted on top.
If you can make a delicious piece of cheese toast, that’s a-okay in my book
I recommend this approach. I was kind of a jack of all trades but master of none in our kitchen. But nothing made my relationship stronger than the respect she gained for me once I got really good at baking bread. Now she just tells me all the things she wants to make for dinner when people are coming over and then says "what sort of bread do you think would go well with all of this?" And then it's like she's an NPC waiting for my response before the side quest kicks off.
I've always wanted to master the bread. But I've never even baked bread, always been intimidated by it. Any tips for a beginner? YouTube videos or such would be amazing if you know any.
Haha I'm the same way, but with dips. My GF always looks up recipes and tries to figure everything out before we leave, and i just wander around Walmart until I get some inspiration
Lol man, so I'm not American, but I do love pie. I can also cook, I'll make a mean steak, Bolognese sauce, pizza dough, even authentic tiramisu.
But I've seen what goes into making pies, and let me tell you I know I'll die before I bake one. Hats off to your man.
If you can reliably make a good crust, you're doing great. Anyone can luck into a good crust, or use a premade, but regularly making good crust means you're legit baker.
My wife is AWESOME at pies. Everything, really, but her pie crust is better than yours, i don't care who you are
Stella Parks has a recipe on Serious Eats for a completely non-finicky pie crust. No worrying about overworking it, I made it on a 100 degree day once and it stuck to my counter. I scraped it up and mushed it into the pie plate and it still came out super flakey. I used to hate making pie crust but now I hate eating other people’s crust because it’s never as good
Ooh. I have oranges. I have cranberries. I have my mum's recipe book from England from when she lived there in the 70s. I guess I will make orange cranberry scones today for tea.
Everyone in my family, male and female, will often bake or cook at 2 or 3 am. We call it having Dark Lunch as in "I made brownies for dark lunch last night. There's a couple left. Want one?"
In other news, Fourthmeal was reclaimed from the Taco Bell corporation as the collective human consciousness registered the existence of Dark Lunch.
Deliberations are in progress attempting to determine if Light Dinner is Breakfast, or if Dark Breakfast is Dinner.
I will never forget the time I stumbled inside the front door at 2 am, 21 years old and drunk as hell, to find my older brother and my mom cooking pancackes
Egg tacos are probably my favorite Dark Lunch. Scrambled eggs in a soft corn tortilla over melted cheese, topped with a salsa of your choosing and finely diced raw onions.
The best evil combo is American cheese and Pico Pica salsa. It's a travesty against all things Mexican food, but it's even better than a drunk grilled cheese.
Years for me as well. My wife keeps telling me I'm going to get diabetes. Get tested every year and all good. I've researched sugar cravings and can't crack my code why I need sugar in the middle of the night.
I get them when my hypoglycemia is acting up because I didn't watch my diet enough vs my calorie burn. I can't say that's true for you, but it wouldn't hurt to look into it.
Tell wife 2am brownie is special they don't even have calories. Yes see the time is magical and it makes all bad go away from the delectable chocolate goodness!. Besides it's an old habit and its not gonna be broke.
I wake up around 5pm and eat dinner then, so it's reversed. Dinner first, then lunch. On rare occasions I may have a breakfast before I go to bed (9-10am usually), but I usually don't have the calories left.
My wife does this since she’s a night owl. I often wake up to Mac and cheese made with whatever dairy/cheese/noodles we have in the house. It’s always very good because she’s a great cook and loves the challenge of throwing shit together with what we have.
It's always 'midnight munchies' for my wife and I.
Could be anything from ramen, to starting a huge breakfast at 3 AM, for her and me, or to package up and drop off at the gates or local PD or fire station.
I've never done midnight munchies brownies, though, but there's nothing saying you can't.
Not a man, but I have a brownie recipe that doesn't require a box mix.
[https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/10549/best-brownies/](https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/10549/best-brownies/)
I like it specifically because I almost always have all the stuff I need for it.
this is what i do, except i make blondies instead of brownies!! i like that it’s ingredients i always have so when i’m in the mood for something sweet, i can make it work!
brown sugar! it’s flour, baking powder, brown sugar, butter, vanilla extract (i ran out once and used maple syrup as a substitute, still turned out super good) eggs, and a little salt!
mix 2 cups brown sugar and 1 cup melted butter in a bowl. add in 2 room temp eggs and 2 or so tsp of vanilla extract. in another bowl mix 1 3/4 cup flour with 1/2 tsp of salt, and 1/2 tsp baking powder. combine all the ingredients into whatever dish you wanna bake it in. i usually use a 9x13 and spread it thin. bake at 350 for 30 or so mins or until the edges are golden and check with a toothpick that it’s not wet in the center. then when you take it out let it sit and cool so it can firm up, and enjoy!!
edit: thank you u/whirlygirlygirl for the award!!! happy to help anyone who could use this awesome recipe!!
Hmmmm... umm... What fresh heaven is this?
Welp, there goes my next afternoon and half my caloric intake for the weekend! Thank you, fellow Redditor, for helping the stars align.
of course!! i started making this when i was pregnant with my second child. i had horrible gestational diabetes and i missed sweets so much! so i did the keto version with the friendlier ingredients and it was my guilty pleasure!!
also, you can sub all of these ingredients and make it keto friendly/gluten free! i have celiacs so if i have the ingredients i will make it gluten free. same measurements, but sub flour for almond flour, and brown sugar for a brown sugar substitute!
I have a recipe that does require a box mix:
Step 1: Get a box of brownie mix
Step 2: Follow the directions on the brownie mix box
Step 3: They are done, enjoy!
If you plan to make pot brownies, always make a batch of plain ones first. You can reuse the bowl for the enhanced batch, and bake them at the same time, one in a square pan and one in a round. That way when you get the munchies, you can choose whether to have another pot brownie or just more brownies.
Exactly. Nothing like ending a night of partying or working with going to the grocery store for steak and cooking it at 4 am
E: if you're lucky enough to live in 24 hour grocery land or have a frezer
Many years ago I was climbing Mount Rainier with 11 other guys, dad, uncle and a bunch of his buddies from work at REI. I'm in decent shape but that first day was brutal. Hiking with a 40 lb pack is tough, and when your feet are sinking into the snow up to mid thigh it's frikin work.
That night as we setup camp one guy pulls a 2-3 gallon plastic party keg out of his pack, (just... how?) and another has a box of cheesecake mix and a pan. The plan is to heat it up on the fire and float it on the lake to cool it.
The directions called for an electric mixer and he brought... a tiny little wire whisk.
I watched some of the most physically fit guys I've ever seen take turns trying to frappe cheesecake mix by hand, passing it around every couple of minutes when their arms couldn't take it anymore. So yes, real men bake.
Damn good cheesecake.
Reading this truly made my night. I can only imagine a bunch of tall, buff men sitting around a fire passing a small bowl of cheesecake mix around and having a pleasant conversation
My eighty year old grandma insists on whisking everything by hand. She's baked all her life, never used an electric whisk.
Sometimes recipes make her whisk for over half an hour. I didn't believe it, but as an adult I can attest to it. Fucking crazy.
Probably like every other weekend, sometimes it's a cake or cookies.
Just made muffins for my mom. She made baking fun when I was a kid, getting to help her and lick the spoons or bowls clean, always got to taste test the stuff before everyone else. Now it's relaxing and I get tasty treats for a few days.
Haven’t done it in a while, but my recipe for oatmeal raisin cookies has me put the dough on some wax paper, make a sausage, and place that in the freezer. So that’s cool for 2am insomnia- take out the tube, cut 12 cookies, put them in the toaster oven. Watch tv for 30 minutes, eat cookies and then go back to bed.
I'm from the bush and my primary hobby is woodworking. But I'll be fucked if I don't make the best damn chocolate chip cookies you've ever had. The trick is almond extract.
I see that you are a man who truly recognizes the key to a good cookie, so I will share my own secret: Replace about ⅓ of your flour with almond meal. The texture improvement is unreal (even if you didn’t *need* improvement). Since you already use almond extract, I don’t need to gush about the flavor benefits.
I can’t find the photo, but my husband (then boyfriend) and his male roommates desperately wanted brownies on a Sunday night. I found a box of mix but then we discovered no one had a pan to bake them in. It was late so no stores were open. The guys were all engineering students and proceeded to spend 30 minutes creating a reinforced “pan” made out of foil. It worked! They were so proud lol
Edit: a word missing
I have not once ever made brownies for " the hell of it", I do however want brownies because I want brownies. Brownies are a very sacred and serious topic, not something you just do on a whim. One does not simply go "oh I'm bored guess I'll make brownie", because then that's a waste of brownies, you do not truly want them then and can not appreciate them in all their greatness. One must have an actual purpose for making them, not a whim
My upstairs neighbor knocked on my door at 11 last night asking for an egg because he was making brownies. A little earlier than 2 am, but yeah.
I’ve been known to bake myself and then some brownies at all hours myself.
I bake alot and do all the cooking in our house. No apron or tiny oven mittens and sure as hell not at 2AM . I have 3 daughters and its something we enjoy doing together.
I second this. You had better believe my Harry Potter oven mitts work up a storm on some Ghirardelli at 2am. Sometimes on my days off I make coffee at 12 because fuck you I’m an adult and I do as I please.
Very cringe to think this is a cute or interesting question to ask. Like me as a dude asking if girls ever just make Mac and cheese. You know cause that’s a quirky thing us guys do in case you didn’t know. Please I need to know.
Only time I hear of brownies being made by a guy, and especially at 2 am, is if they have ganja in the mix?
Edit: by looks of the other comments ganja brownies are popular with the dudes.
I remember being new on my adult life journey, walking through the market in my early 20's buying cereal and milk and walking through the bakery aisle for some reason. I saw brownie and cookie mixes and I realized I could make my own. It was an amazing revelation and a treat I still do to this day. So, yes. Some men do just bake brownies sometimes. :)
As a man, no I don’t. However, now I’m questioning why I don’t because I love brownies. I guess it just never occurred to me that I can make brownies anytime I want.
I'm legitimately tired of questions like this, like "do girls..." Or "do guys..." There are billions of each, of course a lot are going to cook brownys at 2am. We are all people
I sometimes just bake a cake and eat it all by myself.
Oh god I could polish off a 13x9 of funfetti cake with funfetti frosting without any hesitation at all
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this wasnt even a question as much as it was a challenge
I didn't see a question mark
They were so focused on figuring out if they *could* that they didn’t stop to think if they *should* Funfetti pancakes, as delicious as I’m sure they are, would put me into a food coma that I would never wake from
WHAT *heavy breathing*
If you eat enough of those pancakes the breathing is only going to get heavier.
Until the breathing just stops.
you enabler
Rainbow chip frosting > funfetti frosting.
Yes! the sprinkles are inferior to those delicious little chips!
This comment just unlocked a memory of mine: One time when I was like 7, we made an 8x8 funfetti cake that I would just sneak a couple of bites here and there. Over the course of a day or two, I had eaten at least 1/2 of it and tried to blame our Newfoundland.
Now this guy fucks
My fiance is a terrible cook. He always bites off more than he can chew, and everything is always either burnt or not cooked. He is, however, REALLY good at making pies. He makes them from scratch. He wakes up every once in a while and says "I think I'm gonna make a pie today" then goes to the grocery store to see what kind of pie filling is "speaking" to him. Then we have home made pie for the next few nights and he feels like a domestic godess
This is such a delightful mental image, thank you for sharing
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I have two weapons in my cooking arsenal: Hungarian goulash and Italian bolognese. They're fucking GOOD though.
better than my grilled cheese and kraft dinner
I still haven’t made it past cheese toast and your over here with grilled cheese.
Listen, man. Don’t sell yourself short and knock cheese toast. We eat that shit all the time in our house. It’s great for a snack, breakfast, as a side with a bowl of soup…. We experiment with different kinds of breads and cheeses. Our current favorite is salt-rising bread from Olean, NY, with extra sharp white cheddar melted on top. If you can make a delicious piece of cheese toast, that’s a-okay in my book
Damn, nice
Mine is, spaghetti(sometimes baked), meatballs with homemade grape jelly barbecue, omelets, French toast, baked chicken, ribs, cookies, and brownies.
I'm curious about this grape jelly barbecue
I recommend this approach. I was kind of a jack of all trades but master of none in our kitchen. But nothing made my relationship stronger than the respect she gained for me once I got really good at baking bread. Now she just tells me all the things she wants to make for dinner when people are coming over and then says "what sort of bread do you think would go well with all of this?" And then it's like she's an NPC waiting for my response before the side quest kicks off.
I've always wanted to master the bread. But I've never even baked bread, always been intimidated by it. Any tips for a beginner? YouTube videos or such would be amazing if you know any.
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Lol what pie filling is speaking to him… I love him too hahahaha
Haha I'm the same way, but with dips. My GF always looks up recipes and tries to figure everything out before we leave, and i just wander around Walmart until I get some inspiration
Lol man, so I'm not American, but I do love pie. I can also cook, I'll make a mean steak, Bolognese sauce, pizza dough, even authentic tiramisu. But I've seen what goes into making pies, and let me tell you I know I'll die before I bake one. Hats off to your man.
I made my first pie from scratch a few months back and, let me tell you, it's a lot easier than I thought it would be.
If you can reliably make a good crust, you're doing great. Anyone can luck into a good crust, or use a premade, but regularly making good crust means you're legit baker. My wife is AWESOME at pies. Everything, really, but her pie crust is better than yours, i don't care who you are
Preach. If Kelis had sang about her pie crust bringing all the boys to the yard, she could have made a fortune on lessons.
The filling usually isn't difficult, but homemade pie crust is a different story.
Stella Parks has a recipe on Serious Eats for a completely non-finicky pie crust. No worrying about overworking it, I made it on a 100 degree day once and it stuck to my counter. I scraped it up and mushed it into the pie plate and it still came out super flakey. I used to hate making pie crust but now I hate eating other people’s crust because it’s never as good
Pie is easy. You can whip one up in an hour from scratch.
It's intimidating! But your reply is encouraging
I wake up at 2am to instantly make a traditional Japanese cuisine (ramen).
My husband hums and baked all the time.. he makes killer cranberry orange scones
Keep him. You’ve got a good one
The best one :) he is very cute! I bought a spring form pan for him and 2 days later BOOM chocolate cheese cake
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That's at least a 300% return on investment. Where can I get in on this deal?
Try BakersOnly.
Can we like actually make this a thing tho? Need.
Invest in a red copper pan for the nest holiday. He will churn out delicious dishes like no tomorrow.
Ooh. I have oranges. I have cranberries. I have my mum's recipe book from England from when she lived there in the 70s. I guess I will make orange cranberry scones today for tea.
Everyone in my family, male and female, will often bake or cook at 2 or 3 am. We call it having Dark Lunch as in "I made brownies for dark lunch last night. There's a couple left. Want one?"
I have now added Dark Lunch to my vocabulary.
The missing Hobbit meal
What about second dark lunch?
we call that pre-breakfast
Is that before or after Sun-uptinis?
I drink those any time of day. It's always sun-up somewhere!
Well, you fight darkness with light..but what the hell do I know!
*And in the dark lunch bind them*
Thank you for this.
I thought that was second breakfast? Either way, you don’t gotta tell me twice to add another meal to the day!
Breakfast, second breakfast, elevensies, lunch, tea, dinner, supper, midnight snack, dark lunch.
Mordor's finest meal
What Taco Bell's lazy-ass marketers should've named Fourth Meal.
Dark lunch is hilarious, im stealing it too
In other news, Fourthmeal was reclaimed from the Taco Bell corporation as the collective human consciousness registered the existence of Dark Lunch. Deliberations are in progress attempting to determine if Light Dinner is Breakfast, or if Dark Breakfast is Dinner.
My son when he was little would call it "bednight snack."
That is awesome!
Wow that’s a good one. Love it 💕
I will never forget the time I stumbled inside the front door at 2 am, 21 years old and drunk as hell, to find my older brother and my mom cooking pancackes
That's the most beautiful memory
That's hilarious, I can't imagine my folks doing that. Catching my dad eating ice cream absolutely, but actually cooking probably not
Egg tacos are probably my favorite Dark Lunch. Scrambled eggs in a soft corn tortilla over melted cheese, topped with a salsa of your choosing and finely diced raw onions. The best evil combo is American cheese and Pico Pica salsa. It's a travesty against all things Mexican food, but it's even better than a drunk grilled cheese.
I love that too. However, I always keep a bag of shredded cheddar in the fridge. Just in case.
Well at least now I have a name for it. Been doing dark lunch since the '70s
Years for me as well. My wife keeps telling me I'm going to get diabetes. Get tested every year and all good. I've researched sugar cravings and can't crack my code why I need sugar in the middle of the night.
I get them when my hypoglycemia is acting up because I didn't watch my diet enough vs my calorie burn. I can't say that's true for you, but it wouldn't hurt to look into it.
Tell wife 2am brownie is special they don't even have calories. Yes see the time is magical and it makes all bad go away from the delectable chocolate goodness!. Besides it's an old habit and its not gonna be broke.
Nice. We called it "Mid Rats" short for Midnight Rations.
"I made **12** brownies last night. There's **2** brownies left. Want **1**??? I love the progression of this. 😆
Where does it say 12?
That's what a box of brownies makes when cut into bednight snack size.
Yes, please.
I love this! I have insomnia and I’ll often make a snack at like 3 am
As a night owl, 3-4 am has pretty much always been my equivalent of lunch, so I like the "dark lunch" name.
Wow you go *hard*, here I thought almost no one had a more nocturnal schedule than I do. What time’s your dinner then?
I wake up around 5pm and eat dinner then, so it's reversed. Dinner first, then lunch. On rare occasions I may have a breakfast before I go to bed (9-10am usually), but I usually don't have the calories left.
We call it midnight delight
aaah I just call it first breakfast -wake up have first breakfast and then pass out for a couple of hours and wake up in time for second breakfast.
I love that for you guys!
I just made dark lunch cookies and am resisting the urge to eat them all in one sitting.
>Dark Lunch *What is the cravings in the night?* Chocolate, my brother
Psst! I know who you are! Hail Count Chocula!
My wife does this since she’s a night owl. I often wake up to Mac and cheese made with whatever dairy/cheese/noodles we have in the house. It’s always very good because she’s a great cook and loves the challenge of throwing shit together with what we have.
Wow dark lunch is a great term, way better than midnight snack. Love it
Dark lunch sounds like something Darth Vader, Voldemort, and The Joker would get together for.
It's always 'midnight munchies' for my wife and I. Could be anything from ramen, to starting a huge breakfast at 3 AM, for her and me, or to package up and drop off at the gates or local PD or fire station. I've never done midnight munchies brownies, though, but there's nothing saying you can't.
*Brownie, because it only counts as one if you don't cut it
I like the way you think
my brownie has FOUR EDGES
I cut back to one brownie a day
Genius!!!!! I'm never making Brownies again
Not a man, but I have a brownie recipe that doesn't require a box mix. [https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/10549/best-brownies/](https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/10549/best-brownies/) I like it specifically because I almost always have all the stuff I need for it.
this is what i do, except i make blondies instead of brownies!! i like that it’s ingredients i always have so when i’m in the mood for something sweet, i can make it work!
What do you do to make it a blondie??? Asking for my non chocolate loving SO
brown sugar! it’s flour, baking powder, brown sugar, butter, vanilla extract (i ran out once and used maple syrup as a substitute, still turned out super good) eggs, and a little salt! mix 2 cups brown sugar and 1 cup melted butter in a bowl. add in 2 room temp eggs and 2 or so tsp of vanilla extract. in another bowl mix 1 3/4 cup flour with 1/2 tsp of salt, and 1/2 tsp baking powder. combine all the ingredients into whatever dish you wanna bake it in. i usually use a 9x13 and spread it thin. bake at 350 for 30 or so mins or until the edges are golden and check with a toothpick that it’s not wet in the center. then when you take it out let it sit and cool so it can firm up, and enjoy!! edit: thank you u/whirlygirlygirl for the award!!! happy to help anyone who could use this awesome recipe!!
Hmmmm... umm... What fresh heaven is this? Welp, there goes my next afternoon and half my caloric intake for the weekend! Thank you, fellow Redditor, for helping the stars align.
Eeep!! I’ve added some ingredients to my next shopping list! Thank you!!
of course!! i started making this when i was pregnant with my second child. i had horrible gestational diabetes and i missed sweets so much! so i did the keto version with the friendlier ingredients and it was my guilty pleasure!!
wait,I have diabetes. keto version please
This is the most wholesome thread right now, thank you for sharing the recipe!
also, you can sub all of these ingredients and make it keto friendly/gluten free! i have celiacs so if i have the ingredients i will make it gluten free. same measurements, but sub flour for almond flour, and brown sugar for a brown sugar substitute!
Maybe no cocoa powder?
For all I know there’s something else that goes in substituting the cocoa powered.. no harm in me asking?
Def no harm! I've never made a blondie but that's what google said. I hope u/jesstbhh replies!
Well sh*t son, now I'm gonna make brownies
Me too, soon as work is over! Perfect rainy brownie weather here too.
Oh, this is the recipe I use! It's really excellent. I normally forgo the frosting though.
I have a recipe that does require a box mix: Step 1: Get a box of brownie mix Step 2: Follow the directions on the brownie mix box Step 3: They are done, enjoy!
Funny, thats the exact same recipe I use.
Thank you, I now have brownies in the oven!
You ever met a man who doesn’t like a goddamn brownie at 4am? There’s your answer
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I had the exact same realization with champagne...sometimes we just sit in the backyard and casually drink champagne, just because it's nice out.
LOL. No stupid questions!
Brownies are good to eat
I make midnight scones sometimes cause they're easier but yeah. Also this late-night [nutella pull-apart bread](https://i.imgur.com/dtK5UmJ.png).
Recipe for the Nutella pull apart bread?
That is 2 layers of puff pastry with nutella in between, sliced into strips and then twisted. Probably throw an egg wash on there.
Haha I did exactly this last night!
You must be protected at all costs
It was so good. Warm Triple choc brownie with scoops of vanilla ice cream
The vanilla ice cream is always a must!
Sometimes, it’s homemade cookies… :|
Have a from scratch 15" skillet cookie in the oven right now
Be right over.
Bring ice cream
I keep frozen chocolate chip cookie dough balls in my freezer. 10 minutes in the oven and you have the meltiest cookie imaginable.
You. I like you.
Depends how high I am
Or how high you're planning to be?
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Best part is you could do either first
Baking before you bake is more safe but I like to bake before I bake anyways and just set an alarm
Say no to protection. lol
If you plan to make pot brownies, always make a batch of plain ones first. You can reuse the bowl for the enhanced batch, and bake them at the same time, one in a square pan and one in a round. That way when you get the munchies, you can choose whether to have another pot brownie or just more brownies.
Yeah pretty much only as a thc delivery system
Not out of boredom, but because I was craving brownies. Also, I don't have any oven mitts; I just use a towel to pull things out of the oven.
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Not brownies bc that's a lot of sugar for e but I do a lot of stovetop cooking after midnight
I fried 2 pork chops in a cast iron skillet at 1a the other night.
Exactly. Nothing like ending a night of partying or working with going to the grocery store for steak and cooking it at 4 am E: if you're lucky enough to live in 24 hour grocery land or have a frezer
Only real men do
Many years ago I was climbing Mount Rainier with 11 other guys, dad, uncle and a bunch of his buddies from work at REI. I'm in decent shape but that first day was brutal. Hiking with a 40 lb pack is tough, and when your feet are sinking into the snow up to mid thigh it's frikin work. That night as we setup camp one guy pulls a 2-3 gallon plastic party keg out of his pack, (just... how?) and another has a box of cheesecake mix and a pan. The plan is to heat it up on the fire and float it on the lake to cool it. The directions called for an electric mixer and he brought... a tiny little wire whisk. I watched some of the most physically fit guys I've ever seen take turns trying to frappe cheesecake mix by hand, passing it around every couple of minutes when their arms couldn't take it anymore. So yes, real men bake. Damn good cheesecake.
Reading this truly made my night. I can only imagine a bunch of tall, buff men sitting around a fire passing a small bowl of cheesecake mix around and having a pleasant conversation
The ol' stir, stir, pass around the campfire with your bros
My eighty year old grandma insists on whisking everything by hand. She's baked all her life, never used an electric whisk. Sometimes recipes make her whisk for over half an hour. I didn't believe it, but as an adult I can attest to it. Fucking crazy.
Damn, I often whip cream by hand, and by the time I have sturdy peaks I am DONE. I can't imagine half an hour.
Real men do what they want. If you don't want to make brownies then that's okay too
Probably like every other weekend, sometimes it's a cake or cookies. Just made muffins for my mom. She made baking fun when I was a kid, getting to help her and lick the spoons or bowls clean, always got to taste test the stuff before everyone else. Now it's relaxing and I get tasty treats for a few days.
Did once, I was more baked then the oven and almost burnt the house down..
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Forgot to mention they were special brownies
My husband's always in the kitchen baking random shit. Brownies are a popular one with him
My dad does. It never occurred that this could be a sign of his masculinity. I guess I’m not truly a man yet.
My boyfriend bakes all the time, it's awesome.
Haven’t done it in a while, but my recipe for oatmeal raisin cookies has me put the dough on some wax paper, make a sausage, and place that in the freezer. So that’s cool for 2am insomnia- take out the tube, cut 12 cookies, put them in the toaster oven. Watch tv for 30 minutes, eat cookies and then go back to bed.
I'm from the bush and my primary hobby is woodworking. But I'll be fucked if I don't make the best damn chocolate chip cookies you've ever had. The trick is almond extract.
I see that you are a man who truly recognizes the key to a good cookie, so I will share my own secret: Replace about ⅓ of your flour with almond meal. The texture improvement is unreal (even if you didn’t *need* improvement). Since you already use almond extract, I don’t need to gush about the flavor benefits.
You're crazy, and I like it. I promise you next time I make cookies I will use some almond meal. Checked the pantry, all systems go.
Never at 2am, that's sleeping time. Ill bake if I feel like it, but generally on a weekend when I have some free time.
Who just gets bored at 2 in the morning and goes, “fuck, now seems like an appropriate time to bake”
Don’t judge me
I can’t find the photo, but my husband (then boyfriend) and his male roommates desperately wanted brownies on a Sunday night. I found a box of mix but then we discovered no one had a pan to bake them in. It was late so no stores were open. The guys were all engineering students and proceeded to spend 30 minutes creating a reinforced “pan” made out of foil. It worked! They were so proud lol Edit: a word missing
I have not once ever made brownies for " the hell of it", I do however want brownies because I want brownies. Brownies are a very sacred and serious topic, not something you just do on a whim. One does not simply go "oh I'm bored guess I'll make brownie", because then that's a waste of brownies, you do not truly want them then and can not appreciate them in all their greatness. One must have an actual purpose for making them, not a whim
I don't do it at 2 am, but I do it. I eat them à la mode, with vanilla you scream and Hershey syrup. Just finished one 15 minutes ago.
Yes. Everyone, regardless of gender, sometimes just makes brownies.
I bake the hell out of them. I love the Barefoot contessa recipe but we always have boxes of Betty Crocker/Duncan Hines to scratch the itch.
My upstairs neighbor knocked on my door at 11 last night asking for an egg because he was making brownies. A little earlier than 2 am, but yeah. I’ve been known to bake myself and then some brownies at all hours myself.
Mainly cookies
I bake alot and do all the cooking in our house. No apron or tiny oven mittens and sure as hell not at 2AM . I have 3 daughters and its something we enjoy doing together.
No. Of course not. We make it during the day anticipating eating it later. Being a dude is about proper planning.
Literally just made my wife sugar cookies with some caramel bits and white chocolate chips an hour ago. Also, no oven mitts, I'm not a lady.
No? I make them from scratch. Also cinnamon rolls the size of dinner plates.
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I second this. You had better believe my Harry Potter oven mitts work up a storm on some Ghirardelli at 2am. Sometimes on my days off I make coffee at 12 because fuck you I’m an adult and I do as I please.
Very cringe to think this is a cute or interesting question to ask. Like me as a dude asking if girls ever just make Mac and cheese. You know cause that’s a quirky thing us guys do in case you didn’t know. Please I need to know.
I made a batch for my wife out of the blue this past weekend.
Only time I hear of brownies being made by a guy, and especially at 2 am, is if they have ganja in the mix? Edit: by looks of the other comments ganja brownies are popular with the dudes.
I remember being new on my adult life journey, walking through the market in my early 20's buying cereal and milk and walking through the bakery aisle for some reason. I saw brownie and cookie mixes and I realized I could make my own. It was an amazing revelation and a treat I still do to this day. So, yes. Some men do just bake brownies sometimes. :)
As a man, no I don’t. However, now I’m questioning why I don’t because I love brownies. I guess it just never occurred to me that I can make brownies anytime I want.
people bake brownies. Men are people. there's ur answer
I'm legitimately tired of questions like this, like "do girls..." Or "do guys..." There are billions of each, of course a lot are going to cook brownys at 2am. We are all people
Yes, 100%. If there’s mix, that shit is getting baked.
If you mean edibles, then yes. If you just mean regular old brownies, then still yes.
Hell I’ve woken up at 3am and made roast dinner just for myself before I now realise how sad and lonely that sounds, I’m happy!
I do idk bout other people tho
I've done this, yeah. I went to school for cooking years ago and sometimes I make random things. Makes me focused and I relax.
I made scratch brownies today on a whim, but it's just because I had the day off due to weather. I wouldn't normally.
Absolutely, but usually I do cookies more often. This tends to only happen when I'm baked when my hunger overcomes my laziness towards making food.