Recipe Wednesday: Homemade Brownies

Recipe Wednesday is finally including the help of two year old PGS! The last couple of weeks when I've tried to get him interested in making stuff, he just didn't want to help. This week, he saw chocolate chips and wanted to help. Go figure! Let me warn you, if you like brownies and choose to make this recipe, it's amazing and you will want to eat the whole pan of brownies in one sitting! 

I originally found this recipe on Pinterest, but here is the link to the blog post it came from.

BROWNIES (I have renamed them: To Die For )

Ingredients

4 eggs

1 ¹/₄ cups unsweetened cocoa powder

1 tsp salt

1 tsp baking powder

3 tsp vanilla extract

2 sticks butter

2 ¹/₄ cups sugar

1 ¹/₂ cups all purpose flour

1 ¹/₂ cups chocolate chips (semi sweet) Chocolate syrup

Chocolate chips are on the original ingredients list, chocolate syrup is not

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350°F and lightly grease a 8"x8" pan. If desired, line bottom of pan with parchment paper.

2. In a large bowl, add 4 eggs, and beat with cocoa, salt, baking powder and vanilla. Stir until fully combined and smooth.

Combining the ingredients (PGS is keeping his hands on the counter and out of the way)

3. In a medium sized bowl, melt butter in the microwave (or melt in a small sauce pan on the stove). When melted, add sugar, and stir to combine.

Mixing up the melted butter and sugar

4. Add warm butter/sugar mixture to the egg/cocoa mixture, stirring until smooth. Make sure the butter mixture is warm, but not too hot, or it will scramble your eggs.

5. Add the flour and chocolate chips to batter and stir until fully incorporated.

Mixing up all the ingredients until just combined

6. Spread batter into prepared pan, and smooth as needed. Drizzle with chocolate syrup.

I chose to drizzle the chocolate syrup over the batter instead of folding in the chips

7. Bake brownies about 30 minutes. Test for doneness by inserting a toothpick in the center of the brownies and making a little divot so you can see the center a bit. You should find moist crumbs, but no wet batter.

8. Cool pan on wire cooling rack.

Fresh outta the oven!