Brownies

Today I'm Making... Brownies

I love cooking but my kitchen it grossly understocked. I don't have the scoops, mixers, knives, pans or even the bakeware to make cooking easy. My husband recently made me buy a new cookie sheet because mine was so old everything stuck to it, I swear plain butter would have stuck to it.

I decided to make brownies because it was another one of those things I didn't realize you could make without a mix from the store. This is all well and good except that the only pan I had was a round cake pan. I was trying to figure out the area of the pan to make sure it was close enough to the size the recipe called for. Yeah that's right I had to use pi(r)2 to bake... I can't even figure out how to type the symbol for pi if that's any indication for how well that little exercise went. Well after 10 minutes, a calculator and Google I finally figured it out. Luckily 25 minutes later I had a plate of brownies to drown out my feelings of ineptitude.

Recipe:

1. In a sauce pan melt 1/2 cup Butter then remove from heat.
2. Mix in 1 cup sugar, 2 lightly beaten eggs, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder, 1/2 cup all purpose flour, 1/4 teaspoon salt, 1/4 teaspoon baking powder.
3. Bake in a 8 x 8 greased pan for 25 minutes at 350 degrees

Review:

I love chocolate and therefore I love these! I halved the amount of butter and added 1/4 cup of applesauce in it's place, I also added chopped pecans- both of which gave the brownies a slightly different taste then the base recipe but I really like them this way too. I recommend them served warm with ice cream. These are better then the mixes found at the store and honestly they took about the same amount of time to make.