• Cooking Time: 20
• Servings: 24
• Preparation Time: 20
• 1 cup ( 2 sticks) butter or margarine melted
• 2 cups brown sugar
• 2 tsp vanilla
• 4 eggs ( one at a time)
• 1 3/4 cup hershey cocoa
• 1 cup flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp sa1t
• 1 cup chopped nuts (I like walnuts) ( optional)
• 1 cup raisins/ dried cranberries ( optional)

1. use a tablespoon to mix everything:
2. mix first 3 ingredients.
3. add one egg at a time beating well with a spoon after each addition
4. in a separate bowl combine cocoa, flour, baking powder and salt to sift onto the egg mixture ( i just put all these dry ingredients on a sifter directly)
5. beat well.
6. pour onto 24 mini muffin cups about 2/3 full. carefully "bury" 2-3 nut pieces and 1-2 raisins/cranberries on each cup making sure its not buried too deep or exposed too much ( might burn the nuts/raisins)
7. bake in 325 F oven for 20 mins.

found this at hersheys.com. made it many times already. i have tweaked the original recipe to fit in mini cupcake molds/ paper .halving the recipe will yield 24 mini brownies ( yes 24!) because i always put extra nuts and even cranberries/raisins.