Chocolate - Mocha Frosted Brownies

Delicious Scandinavian brownies made with cocoa, chocolate chips and walnuts or pecan nuts. With chocolate-mocha frosting. Zaar World Tour 2005! Zaar World Tour II!

• Ready In: 35 mins
• Serves: 24

Ingredients

• 1 1⁄3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 3⁄4 cups sugar
• 4  tablespoons  unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1  teaspoon baking powder
• 1  teaspoon vanilla extract
• 3⁄4 cup butter
• 3  fluid ounces boiling water
• 3  eggs
• 4  ounces chocolate chips (40-50% cocoa)
• 5  ounces  chopped walnuts or 5  ounces pecan nuts

• Frosting

• 1⁄3 cup butter
• 8  ounces  sweet dark chocolate or 8  ounces dark semi-sweet chocolate
• 2  tablespoons light corn syrup
• 2  tablespoons  hot  espresso or 2  tablespoons very strong coffee

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 deg F.
2. Line a 13 x 9 cake pan with parchment paper and grease.
3. Melt butter in a saucepan.
4. In a large mixing bowl, mix flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder and vanilla extract. Add eggs, melted butter and hot water and mix until smooth.Add chocolate chips and nuts.
5. Bake at 350 degrees for about 20-30 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
6. While cake is baking make the frosting. Mix butter, chopped chocolate, syrup and coffee and heat in a double boiler until melted. Stir until smooth.
7. Cool cake and then frost.