Texas Brownies
INGREDIENTS
- Cooking Time: 20 minutes
- Servings: 48
- Preparation Time: 15 minutes
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- ½ cup (1 stick) butter or margarine
- ½ cup shortening
- 1 cup strong brewed coffee or water
- ¼ cup dark, unsweetened cocoa
- ½ cup buttermilk
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 1 tsp. vanilla (I only use Adam’s extract)
- Frosting:
- ½ cup (1 stick) butter or margarine
- 2 Tbsp. dark cocoa
- ¼ cup milk
- 3 ½ cups unsifted powdered sugar
- 1 tsp. vanilla
DIRECTIONS
- In a large mixing bowl, combine flour and sugar.
- In heavy saucepan, combine butter, shortening, coffee or water and cocoa. Stir and heat to boiling.
- Pour boiling mixture over the flour and sugar in the bowl. Add the buttermilk, eggs, baking soda and vanilla.
- Mix well, using a wooden spoon or high speed on electric mixer.
- Pour into a well buttered 17 ½ by 11 inch jelly roll pan.
- Bake at 400 degrees F for 20 minutes or until brownies test done in the center.
- While brownies bake, prepare the frosting. In a saucepan, combine the butter, cocoa and milk. Heat to boiling, stirring.
- Mix in the powdered sugar and vanilla until frosting is smooth.
- Pour warm frosting over brownies as soon as you take them out of the oven. Cool. Cut into 48 bars.
