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Texas Brownies Recipe

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This recipe for Texas Brownies is from Easley-Nowicki Family Cookbook 2010, one of the cookbooks created at FamilyCookbookProject.com. We'll help you start your own personal cookbook! It's easy and fun. Click here to start your own cookbook!
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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
2 C flour; 2 C sugar; 1 C butter; 1 C strong brewed coffee or water; 1/4 C unsweetened cocoa; 1/2 C buttermilk; 2 eggs; 1 t baking soda;1 t vanilla; Frosting: 1/2 C butter, 2 T unsweetened cocoa; 1/4 C milk; 3 1/2 C powdered sugar; 1 t vanilla
Directions:
Directions:
In large mixing bowl combine flour and granulated sugar. In heavy saucepan, combine 1 C butter, coffee or water, and 1/4 C cocoa. Stir and heat to boiling. Make an indentation into center of flour/sugar mixture and pour this hot mixture into indent. Add the buttermilk, eggs, baking soda and vanilla. Mix well at high speed with mixer. Pour into a well buttered 17 1/2 by 11 inch jelly roll pan. Bake at 400º for 20 minutes until brownies test done with a toothipick in center. While brownies bake, prepare frosting. In same saucepan you used to melt butter mixture earlier, add 1/2 C butter, 2 T cocoa powder; 1/4 C milk. Heat to boiling, stirring. Remove from heat and add powdered sugar and vanilla, mix till smooth. Pour warm frosting over warm brownies so it soaks in.
Preparation Time:
Preparation Time:
15 min
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
I like to poke holes in top of brownies before adding frosting. You want your brownies to be thin so the larger the pan the better. Enjoy!

 

 

 

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