With or without walnuts, this is our go-to chocolate brownie recipe. It's a must-try!
Chocolate Brownies
- Prep Time 25 min
- Total 3 hr 10 min
- Servings 16
- Ingredients 8
Ingredients
- 2/3 cup butter or margarine
- 5 oz unsweetened baking chocolate, chopped
- 1 3/4 cups sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts, toasted if desired*
- Chocolate or mocha frosting, if desired
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 350°F. Grease bottom and sides of 9-inch square pan with shortening.
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Step2In 1-quart saucepan, melt butter and chocolate over low heat, stirring constantly. Cool 5 minutes.
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Step3In medium bowl, beat sugar, vanilla and eggs with electric mixer on high speed 5 minutes. Beat in chocolate mixture on low speed, scraping bowl occasionally. Beat in flour just until blended, scraping bowl occasionally. Stir in walnuts. Spread in pan.
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Step4Bake 40 to 45 minutes or just until brownies begin to pull away from sides of pan. Cool completely in pan on cooling rack, about 2 hours. Frost with frosting. Cut into 4 rows by 4 rows.
Nutrition
230
Calories
11g
Total Fat
2g
Protein
29g
Total Carbohydrate
22g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Brownie
- Calories
- 230
- Calories from Fat
- 100
- Total Fat
- 11g
- 17%
- Saturated Fat
- 7g
- 34%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 60mg
- 20%
- Sodium
- 65mg
- 3%
- Potassium
- 25mg
- 1%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 29g
- 10%
- Dietary Fiber
- 1g
- 4%
- Sugars
- 22g
- Protein
- 2g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 6%
- 6%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 0%
- 0%
- Iron
- 6%
- 6%
Exchanges:
1 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 2 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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