Grandma's Brownies

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Ingredients

  • 3/4 cup butter/margarine
  • 2 squares unsweetened chocolate
  • 1 1/3 cups sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 cup all purpose flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 13” x 9” x 2” pan

Step 2

Put butter and chocolate into a large saucepan, melt, stirring once or twice on low heat. Remove from heat.

Step 3

Stir sugar into chocolate mixture. Stir in 3 eggs, 1 egg at a time, till well mixed.

Step 4

In a small bowl sift flour, baking powder, and salt. Stir into the chocolate mixture. Scrape into the greased pan and spread out with rubber scraper. Bake 25-30 minutes.

Step 5

Cool pan on rack, when cool, sprinkle with powdered sugar. (or add icing)

Hard Brownie Icing:
1/2 cup margarine
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup evaporated milk (small can - 160ml)
12 oz Chocolate chips (1 1/2 cups)

In large saucepan, add margarine, sugar, evaporated milk. Bring to a rapid boil, remove from heat. Stir in chocolate chips & stir until melted. Spread over brownies when it cools off (can be put in fridge for 15-20 minutes to cool more quickly). Icing will thicken when it cools.