A Baker's Brownie

In honor of my highly embarrassing 'self-cleaning' incident with my first ever on my own baking experiment... I have made brownies. Actually it's mostly because writing that made me crave brownies.

To be honest...my stomach and chocolate don't get along. Not that I don't love you chocolate, because I DEFINITELY love you. ALOT. Its just that a little goes a long way. It's probably a good thing, because when I love something I tend to eat waaay too much of it. Chocolate however... is quite considerate, and tells me when to stop. Often its sooner than later. So I don't make brownies much. Maybe once every 18 months. At most. Hence why I didn't have a recipe and found an excellent one to try out on Allrecipes.

I love Allrecipes.com. because the comments are always useful when deciding how to bake them, how many, and if this recipe is what it...says it is. Anyways, I modified it a bit because A. I doubled it. B. 2 cups of sugar is WAY too much for a recipe with one 1 cup of flour and C. icing on top of a brownie ruins the brownie. This is only my opinion but I grew up without icing and can't stand it on already overly sweet things!

A Bloggers Brownie

(based off a recipe from Allrecipes.com "Best Brownies")

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter
• 1 1/4 cup white sugar
• 3 eggs
• 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
•  
• 
  
• Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350. Grease and flour a 9x11 pan. Or just line it with parchment paper. (That's what I do! I hate cleaning that much.)
2. Melt butter in microwaveable bowl. Stir in sugar, eggs, and vanilla. Beat (or hand mix, like me!) in the cocoa, flour, and baking powder. Pour batter into pan.
3. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes. DO NOT overcook. (Like I did. Oops. 25 mins in a decent oven is more than enough)

Yep. Delicious. A little more cakey than I wanted. I was craving a very chewy brownie, but I think it was the over cooking. Potentially over mixing! There is A LOT of butter in this...I cut out a bit. I supposed you could also add an egg (the original calls for 4 eggs) and cut the butter down to 3/4c. But I love me some butter. Mmmm. SO not exactly a hit, but not a miss.