Yummy Brownie Recipes

We just had our church Christmas party. I was assigned to make dessert and decided to make some brownies. It turned out real yummy. So if you're looking for a tried and tested yummy brownie recipe, try these out.

Moist Chewy Brownie

Ingredients:

• 4 oz unsweetened chocolate
• 1 cup flour (I used superfine flour)
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 cup chopped walnuts (optional)
• 4 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla essence

Directions:

• In a saucepan, melt the chocolate and butter.
• Once melted, add in the sugar. Stir it in until well blended.
• Add in the eggs gradually as you keep beating the mixture.
• Put in the vanilla essence
• Last of all add in the flour and salt.
  
• Don't forget the walnuts.
• Grease a 13" x 9" baking pan and pour in the batter.
• Bake for 30-40 minutes at 350 degrees fahrenheit. Make sure you don't over bake.
• Let it cool before your frost it or dust it with powdered sugar (optional).
  

MINT CHOCOLATE BROWNIES
This recipe comes from BYU

I forgot to take a photo of the brownies. When I remembered, only this last piece was left. The mint icing really makes it super yummy.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup margarine
• 1/2 cup cocoa powder
• 2 tbsp honey
• 4 eggs
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 3/4 cup flour
• 1/2 tbsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 cup chopped walnuts

Mint Icing ingredients:

• 5 tbsp margarine
• Dash of salt
• 3 tbsp milk
• 1 tbsp light corn syrup (I used golden syrup)
• 2 1/3 cup powdered sugar
• 1/2 tsp mint extract
• 1-2 drops green food coloring

Directions:

• In a saucepan, melt the butter and then mix in the cocoa.
• As you wait for it to cool, mix together eggs, sugar and honey.
• In a separate container, mix the dry ingredients together - flour, baking powder and salt.
• Put the dry ingredients with the eggs, sugar, honey. Pour in the melted butter and cocoa too.
• Mix them all together until well blended.
• Add in the nuts.
• Grease a 9-13 baking pan and pour the batter in. Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes.
  Then let cool.
  

Start preparing the mint icing.

• Add salt, corn syrup and powdered sugar to the soften margarine.
• Beat until smooth and fluffy.
• Mix in the mint extract and the food coloring.
• Gradually, add in the milk. You want to achieve a consistency slightly thinner than cake frosting.
• Once the brownies is completely cooled, you can spread the mint icing over.
• Put in the refrigerator a little while so the icing can become stiff.
• After you take it out from the fridge, smooth on a layer of chocolate icing.

Chocolate Butter Frosting Recipe
Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup butter
• 1/4 cup cocoa powder
• 1/3 cup milk
• 2 cups powdered sugar (sifted)

Directions:

• Heat butter, cocoa and milk over low fire.
• Turn off the heat and add it to the powdered sugar.
• Beat until nice and smooth.