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Whatever Floats Your Boat Brownies

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  • Servings: 16
  • Prep: 15m
  • Cook: 25m
    • The following recipe serves 16 people.

Ingredients

The ingredients are:
  • 1/2 cup butter, melted
  • 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla
  • 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
We recommend you get your ingredients ready before you start cooking. Once you're ready, here are the steps to making this delicious recipe

How to Make

  • Step 1: Preheat oven to 350°F.

  • Step 2: Grease an 8 inch square pan or line with foil.

  • Step 3: In a medium bowl combine melted butter and cocoa and stir until cocoa is dissolved.

  • Step 4: Add sugar and mix well.

  • Step 5: Add eggs one at a time and stir until well combined.

  • Step 6: Stir in vanilla, flour and salt until you no longer see any flour (do not overmix).

  • Step 7: Fold in "WHATEVER FLOATS YOUR BOAT"!

  • Step 8: Spread in pan and bake for approximately 25 minutes.

  • Step 9: DO NOT OVER-BAKE -- your brownies will come out dry. Adjust time/temp accordingly for your oven

  • Step 10: If you do the knife/toothpick test, it should come out with moist crumbs, not clean.

  • Step 11: Cool completely before cutting into squares.

  • Step 12: For vegetarian omit the marshmallows.

  • Step 13: For double recipe, bake in 9x12 pan and add 5 minutes to baking time.

Tips & Variations

Don't forget the following tips and variations.
  • WHATEVER FLOATS YOUR BOAT ADDITIONS
  • 1 -2 cup chocolate chips (semisweet, white, butterscotch, peanut butter)
  • 1 -2 cup raisins
  • 1 -2 cup chopped maraschino cherry
  • 1 -2 cup chopped nuts
  • 1 -2 cup M&M'
  • 1 -2 cup Reese's pieces
  • 1 -2 cup miniature marshmallow
  • These and others can be added to your "whatever float your boat Brownies"
  • This is the tastiest brownie base,, and what you put in is limited by your imagination.

We hope you enjoy this recipe!

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