Brownies
Author: RL
Recipe type: Dessert
Ingredients
- 4 oz. unsweetened chocolate
- ⅔ C. shortening
- 2 C. sugar
- 4 eggs
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 1¼ C. flour
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 1 tsp. salt
- 1 C. chopped nuts
- Frosting:
- 3 tbsp. butter, softened
- 3 oz. unsweetened chocolate
- 2 C. confectioners sugar
- ¼ tsp. salt
- ⅓ C. milk
- 1 tsp. vanilla
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350.
- Grease the bottom and sides of a 13x9x2 baking dish.
- Melt chocolate and shortening in a large saucepan over medium heat.
- Remove from heat.
- Mix in sugar, eggs and vanilla.
- Spread in pan.
- Bake at 350 for 30 minutes or until brownies start to pull away from the sides of the dish.
- Do not over bake.
- Cool slightly and cut into bars about 2x1-1/2 inches.(should make about 32 bars)
- frost before serving.