Janet's Brownies
- Ready In:
- 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Serves:
-
12
ingredients
- 3⁄4 cup cocoa powder
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 17 tablespoons shortening or 17 tablespoons butter
- 4 large eggs (large or X large, not small)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 1⁄4 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 cup nuts (chopped) (optional)
- 2 tablespoons chocolate syrup
directions
- Lightly grease a baking pan 13’’ x 9” X 2’’. You can also use two 9 inch square pans, lightly greased.
- I do not use a mixer. Hand-mixing turns out a better brownie. Overbeating makes them “tough”.
- Measure out all of the ingredients.
- • In the biggest bowl, place sugar (#2).
- • In a second bowl, gently mix together flour, baking powder, and cocoa powder (#1, 6 & 7). The cocoa powder will fly around if you are too rough.
- • In a separate container, melt the shortening (#3). It takes only a short time (about 1 minute) to melt it in a microwave – be careful! Note: You will be adding the melted shortening to the sugar. But – you must add the other ingredients fairly quickly, because if you delay at all, the sugar and shortening will turn into a solid lump! Do not add eggs to warm melted shortening, or the egg whites will “cook”.
- • Break eggs (#4) into a bowl, and mix them so that yolks break. Do not beat.
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This is how I mix the ingredients:
- 1. Take bowl with sugar;.
- 2. Add melted shortening and stir;.
- 3. Immediately start adding some (about ½) of the flour mixture. Add eggs and keep stirring. Add in remainder of flour. Then you can slow down, adding vanilla (#5).
- 4. Add nuts last (if you want them).
- 5. Pour into pan(s). Bake 30 minutes, or until batter pulls away from sides, or until tester inserted into center comes out clean. Let cool 30 minutes.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Janelle C.
Zephyrhills