Five-star brownies

36 servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
3 eaches Eggs
2 cups Sugar
1½ teaspoon Vanilla extract
½ cup Butter or margarine --
Melted
¼ cup Shortening -- melted
1½ cup All-purpose flour
¾ cup Cocoa powder
1¼ teaspoon Salt
1 cup Nuts -- chopped optional

Directions

In a mixing bowl, beat eggs, sugar and vanilla until well mixed. Add butter and shortening. Combine flour, cocoa and salt; stir into egg mixture and mix well. Add nuts if desired. Line a 13x9x2 inch baking pan with foil and grease the foil; pour batter into pan. Bake at 350 deg for 30 min. or until brownies test done with a wooden pick. Cool in pan. turn brownies out of pan onto a cookie sheet; remove foil.

Place a wire rack over brownies; turn over and remove cookie sheet.

Cut with a star cutter or into bars. Yield: about 3 doz.

Recipe By : Country Woman

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