Best additional ingredient for an excellent choco fudge brownie?

Be really really careful about the amount you add.

chili powder??? oh gosh your kidding right? LMAO!!!

Hello Masihi. I like what you have to say about using oils instead of extracts. Where do you find them.

I found mine in a bulk food store (Bulk Barn here in Canada) I would imagine you can get them in some health food stores and online. The ones I have are in tiny bottles and they're used to flavour food and candy. You can probaby get them in specialty baking stores as well (which includes baking ingrediants, of course)

sorry, my girlfriend have tried mint brownies, and based on what she've tasted, which she didn't like at all, she said it's not something that i would want to eat. since the ones who're gonna eat mostly is me and my girl, that may not be the best add-on for me. hope you'd do great-tasting brownies yourself. cheers.

oh, cream cheese. that's a little expensive in our place. i'm seeking for affordable ingredients as i want them to be simple but flavorful. i like your idea of black forest in a brownie. thanks.

You can also buy the toffee bits packaged like the chocolate/white chocolate chips.

When I add the coconut, Buy a package of shredded coconut at the grocer. I just measure it out and put in the batter. I don't like to add much more than a half cup since I don't want it to overpower the brownie itself. With that small of an amount, I don't have to compensate with any more liquid. Caramel can be added by melting the caramel candies with a bit of cream and adding to the brownie batter. You'll end up with a gooey almost liquidy center to teh brownie, www.whatsgabycooking.com There are some recipes on www.allrecipes.com that you might want to have a look.

raisins, should've thought of that. i really am a beginner when it comes to baking brownies from scratch. how do i add caramel? sorry, i don't even know if that's readily available or if i have to make caramel myself. don't like to add branded chocos as they'll only become the main attraction of the brownie itself. i want it to have its own flavor to it. how do you add coconut? is that coconut milk or the grated white outer layer? sorry, i'm pretty much the newbiest of the newbies as far as brownie-making is concerned.

oh, i don't know where to find walnut oil or hazelnut oil here in our place. btw, what does that addition do to the brownie? we're not familiar with apricot, but i hope there's some good alternative to it. what is chipotle powder? we use dark choco, which makes the brownie really taste good. mayybe i'll try lemon peel. we're not friends with either cinnamon or ginger. Coffee, now why didn't i think of that? my most preferred flavor of all. =) thanks, this helped a lot.

I was going to suggest orange peel, but classicalgeek got there first. It's probably best to use ground peel because that will blend in better than pieces. I used to love Baskin and Robbins chocolate/mandarin orange sherbet. The combination was one of the best I've ever tasted. And now I want to go make a batch of orange brownies. The only problem is that I'm all out of chocolate. Another thing you might try, though I don't know how much effect it would have, is using dark brown sugar instead of white.

I've tried walnuts once, but for me, brownies without walnuts is better. i don't really like the way walnuts produce a coughing effect or such obstruction when swallowed. i've recently tried plain peanuts, which for me was quite good, although it somehow lacked some flavor being plain peanuts.= ) thanks anyways.