Every Night Is Sunday Night with the Sweetest Sauces on the Market
Get on the train to chocolate euphoria with Sunday Night Foods chocolate sauces.
Everyone loves a Sunday, don’t we? All the best things happen on Sundays. Brunch, for one. Time to slow down and rest. Family dinners. Football, if you’re into that. Whatever your vice is, Sunday’s got it for you.
And if your vice is sweet chocolate treats, Sunday Night Foods is the company to turn to. Founded by Eileen Gannon—current contestant on the Blue Ribbon Baking Championship on Netflix, which airs today!—the company’s entire niche is bringing you chocolate sauces that taste like Sundays feel: pure, decadent, and delicious. Sunday Night Foods has four jars to enjoy, including a vegan option, a classic chocolate, a dark chocolate, and a sea salt chocolate. They graciously sent me all four to try, along with a few recipe cards to spice up my baking plans, so now here we are.
Using the sea salt chocolate sauce, I tried making the Sunday Night Brownie Batter Brownies—utilizing gluten-free brownie mix to complement the gluten-free sauce, and in honor of my roommate Cat—and here’s how they turned out.
The Prep
Prepping these brownies is really easy, as the recipe calls for the use of a box of brownie mix. And if you’re feeling pretentious and you want to make your brownies from scratch, go crazy, but Sunday nights are all about taking it easy and being chill, and boxed brownie mix is about as chill as you can get when baking.
I followed the directions for the boxed brownie mix, except I replaced water with milk because that’s what I’ve done all my life—I think it’s supposed to make the batter creamier? I don’t know that that has been proven, but I’m a creature of habit, so I do it anyway. I also didn’t add in the instant coffee because I didn’t have any, but adding coffee into your chocolate mix is almost always going to be the right thing to do. Coffee and chocolate go together like peanut butter and jelly; the coffee enhances the chocolate flavor so you’re left with potent fudgy deliciousness. So, if you can help it, don’t skip the instant coffee powder.
Of course, I mixed the ingredients together until the batter was smooth—or smooth enough; since I was using a chocolate chip brownie mix, the batter looked a little lumpy still, but that’s not for being undermixed. Stick your pointer finger in the batter and taste-test it for good measure—this is an actual requirement—and if it’s ready, it’s time to put it in the pan. An easy tip is to shake out the baking pan or tap it lightly on the counter after all the batter has been poured. This will help even out the batter so the brownies cook evenly on all edges.
Also a requirement: Lick the mixing bowl clean before you wash it. If you let any batter go to waste, the chocolate gods will punish you.
The Bake
I don’t usually follow a recipe for how long to bake things I am familiar with baking (like brownies), because every oven is different, so bake times may vary. Sunday Night Foods says to bake for 32 minutes, so just keep an eye on your brownies during that time and decide what they really need. The important part is to know when 15 minutes into your bake is, so after putting your pan in the oven, set that timer.
The Fun Part
If you’ve been wondering when we’re going to get to the best part of this recipe blog, scroll no further. At the 15-minute mark, I took my brownies out of the oven—not fully baked yet—and grabbed my jar of sea salt chocolate Sunday Night Foods sauce.
Now, since these jars require refrigeration after opening—and since I had recently opened the sauces as part of a makeshift “ice cream bar” during a gathering I hosted—I popped my jar into the microwave for about 45 seconds, or until it was able to be swirled and poured. Then, I grabbed a butter knife, scooped as much sauce as I could onto it, and drizzled it slowly into the partially baked brownie batter. Measure the amount you put with your heart, as usual. There is never too much chocolate, and certainly not while you’re making brownies.
Once I drizzled to my heart’s content, I lightly poked the batter with the butter knife and swirled the knife around to spread the sauce even more. No part of these brownies was going down without a plop of sauce in the middle.
After the drizzle, you pop the brownies back into the oven to finish off the bake, and the result should be a fudgy brownie with the added creaminess of a thick chocolate sauce. As I’m writing this, I am waiting for my brownies to come out of the oven, and jeez am I being impatient. I’ve checked on them three times already—by opening the oven, mind you, which is basically illegal in the baking world. I’m a bad food blogger, aren’t I?
The Result
The level of fudgy these brownies are is unlike any other brownie I’ve eaten, and trust me, I’ve eaten many brownies in my lifetime. Adding in the Sunday Night Foods sauces as a rich decadence to the already-very-chocolatey taste, leaving a warm brownie that falls apart as you cut it—and those are always the best brownies to eat.
Here’s a photo of the recipe card if you’re interested in recreating these yourself, and if you’re not, go back and reread this blog post because if it didn’t convince you on the first try, it certainly should on the next (and the next, and the next, and so on).
Dining Date
My dining date slash taste-tester for these brownies was my very own roommate, Cat, who let me use her box of gluten-free brownie mix in exchange for, well, gluten-free brownies.
For my very first taste-test of Sunday Night Foods’ sauces, my dining dates included my girlfriend and two other friends, Madie and Marisol, who enjoyed my makeshift ice cream bar. It is especially important to note that my girlfriend mentioned loving the sea salt chocolate sauce, and she isn’t even that much of a sweets person. If nothing else in this blog convinces you, that should prove that Sunday Night Foods is the chocolate sauce brand to beat.
Be sure to check out Eileen Gannon on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/search?q=blue%20ribbon%20baking&jbv=81701568.
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