Recipe for chocolate brownies with pecans and chocolate icing.
INGREDIENTS:
- 1 stick (4 ounces) butter
- 1/4 cup cocoa
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 cup chopped pecans
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
PREPARATION:
Grease and flour an 8 x 8-inch baking pan. In a small saucepan, melt butter with cocoa. Beat eggs until foamy, then gradually beat in sugar. Add cocoa-butter mixture to egg mixture. Sift flour and baking powder then sift half of it into batter.
Mix pecans into the remaining flour; add to cake batter; stir to blend well. Add vanilla. Spread batter into the pan; bake at 350° for 20 to 25 minutes. Ice cooled brownies with icing (below) if desired.
Icing:
2 cups powdered sugar
4 tablespoons cocoa
heavy cream or half and half
1 teaspoon vanilla
Sift powdered sugar and cocoa into a mixing bowl. Add vanilla and enough cream to be of desired spreading consistency.
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