My partner and I were just making Ina Garten's recipe for brownies and we got all the way to putting the pan in the oven when I grabbed the spatula and tasted the batter and realized that my partner, who was in charge of wet and dry ingredients while I was melting the chocolate and butter, had forgotten almost 2 cups of sugar! I was sure the texture of the brownies wouldn't be right if we just mixed two cups of sugar into the finished batter. And I was especially upset because there was almost $60 of ingredients in them (who knew 3 cups of walnuts was $16?!). While I went back to the grocery store to rebuy all the ingredients, he mixed the sugar into the batter and baked them off. The texture was all wrong when we pulled them - greasy and grainy. Were these salvageable (more mixing?) or was I right to just bite the bullet and rebake them? Is baking with more than one person a recipe for disaster? Ps. the re-bakes came out perfect!

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