Brooke's Best Bombshell Brownies

Brooke's Best Bombshell Brownies:

from allrecipes.com

I needed a sweetie of some sort for my husband's lunch this week. Coming out of all the Christmas goodies, I couldn't give him Oreos and such. I wanted to bake him something. We are trying to eat through our pantry, so my ingredients were limited. This was a very simple recipe, but produced a very rich and decadent brownie. One of these at a time is more than enough!

1 cup butter, melted

3 cups white sugar

1 Tbsp. vanilla extract

4 eggs

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

1 tsp. salt

1 cup semisweet chocolate chips (I used milk chocolate ones because I had them in the pantry.)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease a 9x13 pan.

Combine the melted butter, sugar and vanilla in a large bowl. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each, until thoroughly blended.

Sift together the flour, cocoa powder and salt. Gradually stir the flour mixture into the chocolate mixture until blended. Stir in the chocolate morsels. Spread the batter evenly into the prepared baking dish.

Bake in preheated oven until an inserted toothpick comes out clean, 35 to 40 minutes. Remove and cool pan on wire rack before cutting.

Baker's One Bowl Brownies

I had some leftover unsweetened chocolate in my cupboard that I wanted to use up. This recipe came from the side of the carton of the Baker's chocolate. They came out so fudgy and rich.

4 squares Baker's Unsweetened Baking Chocolate

3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) of butter or margarine (I used butter)

2 cups sugar

3 eggs

1 tsp. vanilla

1 cup flour

1 cup coarsely chopped Planters pecans (I omitted)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line 13x9 baking pan with foil; with ends of foil extending over sides of pan. Grease foil. (I used cooking spray)

Microwave chocolate and butter in large microwaveable bowl on HIGH 2 minutes or until butter is melted. Stir until chocolate is melted. Stir in sugar, eggs and vanilla. Add flour and nuts; mix well. Spread into prepared pan.

Bake 30-35 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out with fudgy crumbs. (Do not overbake.) Cool in pan on wire rack. Remove brownies from pan; using foil handles. Cut into squares. Store in tightly covered container.