Alice Pike's Famous Brownies

photo by Pamela

- Ready In:
- 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 14
- Serves:
-
12-16
ingredients
-
Brownies
- 1⁄2 cup butter, plus
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 5 1⁄2 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 7⁄8 cup flour
- 1⁄4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
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Chocolate Butter Icing
- 1⁄2 cup soft butter
- 3 cups icing sugar (divided)
- 1⁄3 cup cocoa powder
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 3 -4 tablespoons milk (divided)
directions
- For Brownies: In mixing bowl or food processor blend well, butter, sugar, cocoa, eggs and vanilla.
- Combine flour, baking powder and salt.
- Add to cocoa mix.
- Bake in greased 8x8 square pan for 20-25 min at 350.
- Make them gooey-moist by taking them out just after the middle has puffed up or risen (which is the only way!) Leaving them in longer will give you a cake-like brownie.
- Meanwhile make icing.
- Allow to cool before icing or you can dust with icing sugar (shaken through a sieve).
- They are even good naked.
- For Chocolate Butter Icing: Cream butter with cocoa and 2 cups of icing sugar.
- Beat in 2 tsp vanilla, 2 TBSP milk and 1 cup of icing sugar.
- If needed, gradually add 1-2 TBSP milk until desired spreading consistency.
- Makes enough icing for 2 batches of brownies.
- Will keep in the fridge for a week.
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