Hershey's Brownies

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subject: Hershey's Brownies
from: sherri
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This is the recipe that I too have been looking for - the only difference is that the original one that I used included oil, this uses melted butter. They are fantastic!

Hershey's Brownies

3/4 cup Hershey's Cocoa

1/2 tsp Baking Soda

2/3 cup Butter (melted divided)

1/2 cup Boiling Water

2 c. Sugar

2 eggs

1 1/3 cup All-Purpose Flour

1 tsp Vanilla Extract

1/4 tsp Salt

1 (12 oz pkg.) Hershey's semi-sweet chocolate chips

1/2 cup coarsely chopped nuts (optional)

Heat oven to 350x F.

Grease 13x9x2-inch baking pan.

In medium bowl stir together cocoa and baking soda; blend in 1/3 c. melted butter. Add boiling water; stir until mixture thickens. Stir in sugar, eggs and remaining 1/3 c. melted butter, stir until smooth. Add flour, vanilla and salt; blend well. Stir in chocolate chips and nuts, if desired. Pour into prepared pan. Bake 35 to 40 minutes or until brownies begin to pull away from sides of pan. Cool completely in pan. Cut into squares. Makes about 36 brownies.

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subject: brownies made with cocoa
from: PatS
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this isn't quite how you described yours, but I have made this several times and find them delicious and easy to make. This came out of a cookbook called 'The Brand Name Book of Baking' that I bought at Sams Club. I used Hersey's cocoa in place of Ghirardelli's because that is what I had on hand and they turned out great. Just don't overbake them. 20 minutes is fine.

1/2 C. butter or margarine

1 C. sugar

2 eggs

1 tsp vanilla

2/3 C. unsifted flour

1/2 C. unsweetened cocoa

1/2 tsp baking powder

1/4 tsp salt(omit if you use margarine)

1/2 C. chopped walnuts (optional)

350 degree oven

Butter an 3-inch square pan, then line with waxed paper.

In a food processor, place butter or margarine (cut into 4 pieces), sugar, eggs and vanilla. Process about 15 seconds.

(Or in mixer, cream softened butter with same ingredients.) Sift flour with cocoa, baking powder and salt; blend into creamed mixture. Fold in nuts. Spread in prepared pan. Bake 20-25 minutes.