What went wrong with my brownies? I've read numerous forum posts and mini-articles about substituting applesauce for oil in brownie mix, but for some reason it went horribly wrong:



(Okay, that's actually after trying to salvage it by putting it back in the oven after grabbing some good slivers off the edge)
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say...underbaked.

Either you didn't leave it in long enough or your oven wasn 't hot enough.  Realize many, many ovens can be significantly off their 'set' temperature.  An oven thermometer is a great investment.

(I don't believe applesauce had anything to do with this unless you put like 10x the amount of applesauce in.)