Chewy Brownies

Easy & Good.

1 1/4 cup butter
3/4 cup cocoa
2 eggs
2 cups sugar
2 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 cups sifted flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
2 cups chopped nuts.

Sift flour, baking powder, and salt together in a mixing bowl.

Melt butter in a heavy pan over low heat.
Add cocoa, stirring constantly; cool slightly and beat in eggs and sugar.
Mix in vanilla.
Add flour mixture and mix well.
Add nuts and mix.

Pour into greased 13 inch baking pan, or sheet cake pan for thinner brownies.
Bake at 350 for 25 to 30 minutes. DO NOT OVERBAKE. They may not appear to be done, but they will continue baking when they come out of the oven.

When cool cut into squares.


From "Favorite Recipes, from Wesleyan Church Women: DESSERTS", pg 114, 1969. A recipe submitted by Mrs. Robert Stonoff, Phoenix AZ.
A wedding gift in 1970.