• Cooking Time: 30 minutes total
• Servings: about 40 brownies
• Preparation Time: 10 minutes
• BROWNIES
• 2 C flour
• 2 C sugar
• 5 t unsweetened cocoa
• 1 C water
• ½ C margarine
• 1 t baking soda
• ½ C buttermilk
• 2 eggs
• FROSTING
• ¼ C unsweetened cocoa
• 1/3 C buttermilk
• ½ C margarine
• 4 ½ C powdered sugar
• 1 t vanilla

1. PREHEAT oven to 375 ° F.
2. Grease 15 X 10 inch baking pan.
3. Combine flour, sugar and 5 T cocoa in a large mixing bowl and mix well.
4. In a saucepan, combine water and margarine and bring to a boil over medium heat.
5. Pour over flour mixture.
6. Beat at low speed until blended; beat at high speed until smooth.
7. Add baking soda, buttermilk and eggs; blend well.
8. Pour batter into greased pan.
9. Bake 15 – 20 minutes.
10. Prepare frosting while the brownies bake.
11. In large saucepan, combine cocoa, buttermilk and margarine.
12. Bring to a boil over medium heat.
13. Remove from heat and add sugar and vanilla; mix well.
14. Spread over warm brownies.
15. Cool and cut into bars.

I found this recipe many years ago in one of the cookbooks you pick up at the grocery store registers while you wait your turn in line. Luckily I copied it for many friends, so even though I cannot put my hands on the original book any more, I still have the recipe. These are delicious cake-like brownies with wonderful fudgy frosting. They are a standard to bake and take on camping trips, and pot lucks when I need to bring a dessert. The original recipe called for coconut in the frosting, but I never added it.