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Texas Brownies Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups granulated sugar
½ cup (1 stick) butter
½ cup shortening
1 cup strong brewed coffee or water
¼ cup dark, unsweetened cocoa
½ cup buttermilk
2 eggs
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp vanilla

FROSTING:
½ cup (1 stick) butter
2 Tbsp dark cocoa
¼ cup milk
3½ cups unsifted powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla
Directions:
Directions:
PREP: Butter a 17½-by-11 inch baking pan (jelly roll pan works well)

1. In a large mixing bowl, combine flour and sugar.

2. In heavy saucepan, combine butter, shortening, coffee or water, and cocoa. Stir and heat to boiling.

3. Pour boiling mixture over the flour and sugar in the bowl. Add the buttermilk, eggs, baking soda and vanilla.

4. Mix well, using a wooden spoon or high speed on electric mixer.

5. Pour into the well-buttered jelly roll pan.

6. Bake at 400º for 20 minutes or until the brownies test done in the center.

7. While brownies bake, prepare the frosting. In a saucepan, combine the butter, cocoa and milk. Heat to boiling, stirring.

8. Mix in the powdered sugar and vanilla until frosting is smooth.

9. Pour warm frosting over brownies as soon as you take them out of the oven.
Number Of Servings:
Number Of Servings:
48
Preparation Time:
Preparation Time:
40 min
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
This is a BIG favorite of my kids and Steve. Claire usually request this instead of a cake for her birthday! I recommend using coffee versus water - the flavor is better. And the only way this makes 48 is if you cut the brownies into bite-size pieces!!

This is reminiscent of mother's chocolate sheet cake....but without the nuts (which I hated, as a kid! I would pick the nuts out of the frosting....)

 

 

 

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