astray recipes: Super brownies

Categories: Brownies
Yield: 1 Servings

Measure	Ingredient
½ cup	Butter or margarine
1½ cup	Sugar
4⅔ cup	Semisweet chocolate chips; divided
3 tablespoons	Hot water
4	Eggs
5 teaspoons	Vanilla extract
1½ cup	All-purpose flour
½ teaspoon	Baking soda
½ teaspoon	Salt
2 cups	Coarsely chopped macadamia nuts or pecans, divided

In a saucepan over medium heat, melt butter and sugar. Remove from the heat; stir in 2 cups chocolate chips until melted. Pour into a mixing bowl; beat in water. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.

Add vanilla. Combine flour, baking soda and salt; beat into the chocolate mixture until smooth. Stir in 2 cups of chocolate chips and 1 cup of nuts.

Pour into a greased 13-in. x 9-in. x 2-in. baking pan. Sprinkle with remaining chips and nuts. Bake at 325 degrees for 55 minutes or until the center is set (do not overbake). Yield: about 3-½ dozen.

Recipe by: Country Woman Magazine - Nov/Dec issue Posted to recipelu-digest Volume 01 Number 291 by RecipeLu <recipelu@...> on Nov 23, 1997

super brownies