I like to clip, tear, print, and read recipes from magazines, food packages, and the internet. There, I said it. I have so many that I have forgotten what I have. Then one faithful day my toddler decided it would be a good idea to open my little box of recipes and throw them all over the floor. Which turned out to be a good thing because then I got to pick them all up and look at them as I put them back in the box. That's when I came across this recipe and I knew what I had to do.
Let me just warn you, if you are on a diet or thinking about starting a diet do not proceed. Run away! These homemade brownies are not, I repeat not diet food.
The thought of making brownies from scratch has always scared me. It sounded too hard and fancy. These are the opposite of hard and you will be on your way to stretchy pants in a hot minute! Ok, enough babbling, recipe time!
Ingredients:
24 small (1.5 inch) York Peppermint Patties
1 1/2 cups (3 sticks) butter or margarine, melted
3 cups sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
5 eggs
2 cups all-purpose
1 cup cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
Directions:
1. Heat oven to 350 degrees (325 degrees for glass baking dish). Remove wrappers from peppermint patties. Grease 13x9x2-inch baking pan.
2. Stir together butter, sugar and vanilla in large bowl. Add eggs; beat until well blended. Stir in flour, cocoa , baking powder and salt; blend well. Reserve 2 cups batter. Spread remaining batter in prepared pan. Arrange peppermint patties about 1/2 inch apart in single layer over batter. Spread reserved batter over patties.
3. Bake 50 to 55 minutes or until brownies begin to pull away from sides of pan. Cool completely in pan on wire rack; cut into squares. Makes 36 brownies!
Enjoy!!
