Peanut butter and chocolate: the original best friends. Bake these fudgy brownies alongside real life friends, Alice and Shoo Shoo, from Lessons in Chemistry, now streaming on Apple TV+.
Set in the early 1950s, Lessons in Chemistry follows Elizabeth Zott (played by Larson), whose dream of being a scientist is put on hold in a patriarchal society. When Elizabeth finds herself fired from her lab, she accepts a job as a host on a TV cooking show, and sets out to teach a nation of overlooked housewives — and the men who are suddenly listening — a lot more than recipes.
Starring alongside Larson are Lewis Pullman (“Top Gun: Maverick,” “Outer Range”), NAACP Image Award-winner Aja Naomi King (“How to Get Away with Murder,” “The Birth of a Nation”), Stephanie Koenig (“The Flight Attendant,” “The Offer”), Kevin Sussman (The Big Bang Theory,” “The Dropout”), Patrick Walker (“Gaslit,” “The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey”), and Thomas Mann (“Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty,” “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl”).
Set in the early 1950s, Lessons in Chemistry follows Elizabeth Zott (played by Larson), whose dream of being a scientist is put on hold in a patriarchal society. When Elizabeth finds herself fired from her lab, she accepts a job as a host on a TV cooking show, and sets out to teach a nation of overlooked housewives — and the men who are suddenly listening — a lot more than recipes.
Starring alongside Larson are Lewis Pullman (“Top Gun: Maverick,” “Outer Range”), NAACP Image Award-winner Aja Naomi King (“How to Get Away with Murder,” “The Birth of a Nation”), Stephanie Koenig (“The Flight Attendant,” “The Offer”), Kevin Sussman (The Big Bang Theory,” “The Dropout”), Patrick Walker (“Gaslit,” “The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey”), and Thomas Mann (“Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty,” “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl”).
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00:00 We're gonna make some brownies.
00:01 And probably gonna eat them.
00:04 They're gonna have hot dogs in them.
00:05 Yeah, they will.
00:06 Courtney is a chef.
00:07 She's also one of my best friends.
00:09 And she's written so many cookbooks,
00:11 worked in incredible famous kitchens.
00:13 And we're so lucky to have her on the show
00:15 making Elizabeth's food.
00:17 Let's begin, shall we?
00:18 [music playing]
00:21 One of the things that I love about your taste,
00:25 specifically, is that you've found a way to take things
00:27 that are like memories of my childhood,
00:29 things that I loved as a kid, but then you elevate it
00:31 and make it into something where I feel like
00:33 it's cool that I'm an adult.
00:35 Like it's an adult version.
00:37 Yeah!
00:38 The adult version of the things I really want
00:40 'cause I had it as a kid.
00:41 Speaking of which,
00:42 so I'm about to make peanut butter chocolate brownies
00:44 with Shushu and Alice.
00:45 These are the brownies that kind of brought them together
00:48 in the show.
00:50 They play a very large role in the show.
00:52 That's right.
00:53 It's something that Elizabeth makes for Mad for her lunch.
00:55 I'm really interested to see how they're gonna do.
00:57 I think they're gonna be really great bakers.
00:59 I can't wait to find out what's gonna happen.
01:01 [laughing]
01:02 [music playing]
01:05 First, before we even get started,
01:09 I would love to hear just a little bit
01:12 about your characters on the show.
01:14 So, I'm Mad Zot,
01:16 and I'm the daughter of the main character in the show.
01:19 What do you need?
01:21 I'll get the flour, you go to the butcher counter.
01:24 Copy.
01:25 But nothing too lean.
01:26 Of course.
01:27 And what about you, Shushu?
01:29 I'm Amanda Pine, and I am her best friend in the show.
01:34 Correct.
01:35 Yes, and in real life.
01:36 Yes.
01:37 And in real life?
01:38 Yes.
01:39 Why didn't I know that?
01:40 We know each other.
01:41 That's amazing.
01:43 Amanda!
01:45 Mom, can Amanda come over today?
01:47 All right, let's start.
01:48 Let's start with the recipe.
01:49 All right, let's do this.
01:50 Okay, so the chocolate peanut butter brownies
01:52 have two parts.
01:54 We're going to make the chocolate part first,
01:56 and then we're going to go make the peanut butter part, okay?
01:58 Okay.
01:59 Alice, do you want to be the official stirrer for this one?
02:01 Yes.
02:02 Okay, whisk that together.
02:04 All right, now, you keep stirring,
02:05 and I'm going to pour in the butter.
02:08 So, this is melted butter, and it goes just like that.
02:11 That smells so good.
02:12 Yeah.
02:13 It does smell good.
02:14 And it's going to taste so good.
02:15 Oh, it's getting bunched up.
02:16 Yeah, so, if you want to switch to this, you can.
02:18 It's a little bit thick.
02:19 You're going to have to put some muscle into it.
02:21 I'm going to get some muscle in here.
02:23 Get some muscle in here.
02:24 All right, Shushu, are you ready?
02:25 Yes.
02:26 We're going to crack the eggs into it while Alice stirs.
02:29 Have you ever cracked an egg before?
02:31 Yes, many times.
02:32 You're an old pro.
02:33 Look at that.
02:34 All right, so you're going to add the eggs.
02:36 In you go, eggs.
02:38 Yeah.
02:39 Oh, my gosh.
02:40 You keep stirring.
02:41 Don't stop stirring.
02:42 This is an important, very important part.
02:43 Keep mixing.
02:44 It's getting really gooey.
02:45 Here, can I show you a little trick?
02:47 Yeah.
02:48 Sometimes, this is called folding.
02:49 If you, like, scrape like this, and you can just--
02:51 Fold.
02:52 Really?
02:53 You fold it.
02:54 And then you can just, like, get vigorous.
02:55 Vigorously stir.
02:56 OK, vigorous.
02:57 Yeah.
02:58 Yeah, get vigorous.
02:59 It's time to add the flour.
03:00 Shushu, would you like to do the honors?
03:01 Yes.
03:02 Just don't dump it in all at once.
03:03 Kind of sprinkle it in a little bit at a time.
03:04 Perfect.
03:05 Keep mixing.
03:06 Yeah, keep mixing.
03:07 So, do you all like gooey brownies, or do you like cakey brownies?
03:08 Do you have a preference?
03:09 I like both, really.
03:10 Both?
03:11 Yeah.
03:12 Well, I like a warm, gooey brownie.
03:13 Yeah, me too.
03:14 I'm a gooey person, myself.
03:15 I like a warm, gooey brownie.
03:16 Yeah, me too.
03:17 I'm a gooey person, myself.
03:18 All right, that means that we all like gooey.
03:19 Yeah.
03:20 We all like gooey.
03:21 That means you put less flour in, because the more flour you add to the brownie batter,
03:22 the more cake-like it'll be.
03:23 So, this recipe is very gooey, because it hardly has any flour in it.
03:24 That looks great.
03:25 Let's set this aside.
03:26 Now that the chocolate batter's finished, let's move on to the peanut butter.
03:27 Yes!
03:28 That's right.
03:29 I'm going to add the peanut butter.
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05:12 Look at all these swirls.
05:13 Oh my god, you're doing such a good job.
05:15 Thank you.
05:16 This looks perfect.
05:17 I'm going to go ahead and put these in the oven.
05:19 Okay.
05:20 And we will eat all of the batter.
05:22 Oh yeah.
05:23 [music]
05:36 So while the brownies are baking, what's your go-to breakfast?
05:40 Crepes.
05:41 Crepes?
05:42 What's your go-to breakfast?
05:44 Pancakes and hash browns.
05:48 Those are really good.
05:49 Just like classic American breakfast.
05:51 Yeah.
05:52 I'm on board with that.
05:53 Butylated hydroxy taliline.
05:55 A good rule of thumb is not to eat foods that share ingredients with jet fuel.
05:59 I'll add it to my vocab list.
06:01 I smell the brownies.
06:02 Do you all smell them?
06:03 I smell them.
06:04 I think they're finished.
06:06 Ta-da!
06:07 Oh my god, that looks so good.
06:09 [music]
06:15 Now, this is a little trick too.
06:17 This is a professional trick.
06:18 We made these so they would be like little lifters.
06:21 So it would be really easy.
06:22 Just go plop.
06:23 [gasp]
06:25 Plop.
06:26 And there you go.
06:27 So now it's really easy to just cut and eat.
06:30 That looks great.
06:31 Okay, here we go.
06:32 I don't believe in plates.
06:33 Yeah, who needs plates?
06:35 Who needs them?
06:36 You hear us, plates?
06:37 We don't need you.
06:38 All right.
06:39 Here we go.
06:41 Let's see if this is any good.
06:43 Let's see.
06:44 How do we do?
06:46 Oh my gosh, they're so gooey.
06:48 You can tell there wasn't a ton of flour.
06:49 So gooey.
06:50 They're so good.
06:52 I should get a pate and brownie.
06:53 I think that can be arranged.
06:55 Thank you all so much for joining me in the kitchen today.
06:57 I had so much fun.
06:59 And you can see more of these characters and recipes in Lessons in Chemistry on Apple TV+.
07:06 Thank you.
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