Best Brownies.

  I'm off today! :) So that means I have the whole day to do whatever I want! What do I chose to do? Bake brownies and clean. Okay so not the most exciting day, I know. But the brownies I made are seriously the best... I found this recipe at Hershey.com then altered it myself a few years back but forgot about it until today.

Here's what you need:

• 1 cup (2 sticks) butter or margarine
• 2 cups sugar
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 4 eggs
• 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 3 cups chocolate chips
• 3 tablespoons peanut butter (optional)

1. Heat oven to 350°F. Grease 13x9x2-inch baking pan.

2. Place butter in large microwave-safe bowl. Microwave until melted. Stir in sugar and vanilla. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well with spoon after each addition. Add cocoa; beat until well blended. Add flour, baking powder and salt; beat well. Stir 1 cup chocolate chips. Pour batter into prepared pan.

3. Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until brownies begin to pull away from sides of pan. Cool completely in pan on wire rack. Melt chocolate chips melt and peanut butter if desired, spread on top of brownies. Chill until melted chocolate chips has hardened. Cut into bars. Makes about 24 brownies.

 

 Honestly, I didn't even measure the amount of chocolate chips I added to this, in the batter I just poured the entire bag of chocolate chips in. I admit probably was a bit excessive, but it's chocolate. There's no such thing as to much. ;)
  I had a problem though. I didn't feel like making two batches, but I couldn't decide if I wanted to have just the plain chocolate icing or if I wanted the peanut butter melted with it, so I just iced half of the brownies with just the chocolate, the other half I iced with the chocolate with the peanut butter. Perfect solution. :)