THE BEST DOUBLE CHOCOLATE BROWNIES with Buttercream

"Chocolate really is the world's perfect food..."

                                                            -Michael Levine

These are simply the BEST....and I mean THE BEST homemade brownies. I came across the recipe through a Taste of Home cookbook.  You must make them. Definitely sooner rather than later......they'll be inhaled the same day you make them.With maybe some leftover for the next day...........maybe....

They're slathered with a buttercream that  is smooth and silky.. Lovely and creamy. Not sugary. Perfect. You will want to live in the bowl that holds the buttercream............so here we go..............Preheat oven to 350 and get out your whisk....

BROWNIE Ingredients 

• 3/4 cup baking cocoa
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 2/3 cup butter, melted, divided
• 2 cups sugar
• 1-1/3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/4 teaspoon salt

more ingredients on the way.............

• 1/2 cup boiling water
• 2 large eggs, room temperature
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

• 1/2 cup coarsely chopped pecans
• 2 cups (12 ounces) semisweet chocolate chunks

           "Nobody knows the truffles I've seen..." -George Lang

IN LARGE BOWL:  combine cocoa and baking soda; blend 1/3 cup melted butter.

ADD: boiling water; stir until well blended

STIR in sugar, eggs and remaining butter

ADD: 

• flour, vanilla and salt. Stir in pecans and chocolate chunks.

POUR :  

• into a greased 13x9-in. baking pan. Bake 30  minutes or until brownies begin to pull away from sides of pan. Cool. Slather with  BUTTERCREAM. ( Morgan's variation) 

• 1/2 cup margarine
• 1/2 cup lightly salted butter room temperature
• 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
• 1 lb powdered sugar
• 4 tbsp water depending on consistency desired
• pinch salt
• 1/3 cup cocoa

Beat all together. Do not add more powdered sugar or it will be too sweet.What you don't use can freeze nicely.

Can be kept cut into small bars in a plastic container. Can be frozen, but not as good afterwards.There won't be much left after two days anyways....

"The answer to all important questions is chocolate..." - Melanie A. Smith

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