The World's Best Brownies

Name: The World's Best Brownies
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 32 brownies
Ingredients: 2 cups white sugar; 1 cup vegetable oil; 4 eggs; 1 1/2 cups flour; 1 teaspoon baking powder; 1 teaspoon salt; 1/2 cup cocoa; 2 teaspoons vanilla; 1 cup nuts (I like pecans) (optional)

Submitted by mainecooncat

"I used to be famous for these and was expected to bring them everywhere I went. They are a lovely, chewy type brownie that needs no icing. The recipe came from an old church cookbook from my childhood."

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Ready In:: 45mins
Ingredients:: 9
Yields:: 32 brownies

ingredients

2 cups white sugar
1 cup vegetable oil
4 eggs
1 ¹⁄₂ cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
¹⁄₂ cup cocoa
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 cup nuts (I like pecans) (optional)

directions

Beat together sugar, eggs, and oil.
Sift flour, baking powder, salt, and cocoa together.
Add to sugar-egg mixture.
Add vanilla and nuts (if desired).
Pour into two cake pans (8x8x2) lined with foil.
Bake at 350 degrees for 35 to 40 minutes.
Cut when cool and dust with powdered sugar.

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Reviews

Your are so right...these brownies do not need icing. They turned out wonderfuly moist and chocolately. I added walnuts. I threw out my other brownie recipe and replaced it with this. Thanks so much, Mainecooncat!

Merlot
This recipe is so quick and easy to put together that my 10 year old GD made them with very little supervision by me. They use ingredients I always have. And the taste was divine! Thanks so much for sharing your delicious recipe maincooncat!

Junebug
These brownies are very good. They are easy to make and go together very quickly. My family prefers a fudgier brownie, but for you cakey brownie lovers, this is a good one. Thanks for sharing this delicious recipe.

Bayhill
I have to go along with the majority of raters and give you 5 stars for this one mainecooncat. I had a couple DGDs here saying, "Lets make something." I had run across the recipe a day before. So, they decided we would try it.I did the mixing by hand for them. They were delighted with them. Yummy was the term that they used. With simple instructions and the type ingredients always at hand, I can see I will be making many more of these delicious brownies. Thanks so much for posting this recipe. jim

Jim in Washington
These brownies are the ultimate! Definetly do not need any icing - they are yummy just the way they are. I was just going to post this when I saw your recipe. The recipe is scrumtious! Thanks, Diane

Manami