One day while all the kids were home, I asked them to make dessert. One kid said she wanted brownies but we didn’t have any mixes. I told her to make them ‘from scratch’. She said it was too much work… so I found a recipe and made a batch, just to show her how easy it was.
They liked it so much they put the recipe on my family recipe website…
When they were little we never used brownie mizes but I probably never made them much when they were in high school. I’m not big on chocolate and sickening sweet desserts and “if the cook don’t like it, it don’t get made”… I don’t recall making them for at least 10 years.