Chocolate Brownie Recipe

A chocolate brownie recipe doesn't have to be hard. And there's more you can do with a chocolate brownie recipe than just making brownies.

Chocolate Brownie Recipe

From basic to fancy to being only one small part of a chocolate dessert recipe, a chocolate brownie recipe can be very versatile.

Basic Brownie Recipe

These days, you can take a basic chocolate brownie recipe and make brownies, or you can add to that recipe and make the brownies fancier, frost them...the options are endless. But before you can make anything beyond the basics, you need to have a good basic recipe. Try out the chocolate brownie recipe below to get started, guaranteed to give you your chocolate fix:

Basic Chocolate Brownies

1 cup butter or margarine

2 cups granulated sugar

4 eggs

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

12 tablespoons cocoa

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1 cup chopped nuts (optional)

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

2. Melt butter in 9 x 13-inch pan on stove. Remove from heat.

3. Stir in sugar, then eggs.

4. Sift and add flour, baking powder, salt and cocoa.

5. Mix in vanilla extract. Add nuts, if desired.

6. Bake for 30 minutes. Cool.

7. Sprinkle with confectioners' sugar if desired.

Now that you have a good basic chocolate brownie recipe, here are some ways to use it:

In a trifle - There's a recipe for a Double Chocolate Mocha Trifle that uses brownie cubes for one layer, a mixture of white chocolate pudding and instant coffee for another layer, whipped cream for another layer and crushed toffee or heath bars on top.
As the base for a dessert recipe - Simply cut a piece of parchment paper to fit a pizza pan or cookie sheet, pour the batter on that and bake it. When it's done, you can make a Banana Split Brownie Pizza by mixing cream cheese and sugar and spreading it over the brownie, then topping it with banana split toppings. Or, you can make a Peanutty Chocolate Pizza by mixing cream cheese, peanut butter, brown sugar and vanilla and spreading it on the brownie, then topping that with banana slices, chocolate syrup and chopped honey roasted peanuts.
Put coconut pecan frosting on top of your brownies to make them more like German Chocolate Brownies.

Some people mix a chocolate brownie recipe with a cheesecake recipe and have one brownie layer and one cheesecake layer to make another kind of rich chocolate recipe.

As you can see, there's no limit to what you can do with chocolate brownie recipes. You can make cake-like brownies, chewy brownies, fudge brownies....the options are endless!

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