Buttermilk Brownies
Author: Molly
Recipe type: Dessert, brownies
Cuisine: American
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Serves: 24 bars
Ingredients
- For the brownies:
- 2 c. flour
- 2 c. sugar
- 1 t. baking soda
- ¼ t. salt
- ½c. buttermilk
- 2 eggs
- 1½ t. vanilla
- 1 c. water
- 1 c. butter
- ⅓ c. unsweetened cocoa powder
- For the frosting:
- ⅜ c. or butter 6 T
- 4.5 T cocoa powder
- 4.5 T buttermilk
- 3 c. powdered sugar
Instructions
- Heat the oven to 350 degrees and put spray grease on 15 x 10 or 13 x 9 pan
- Put in a mixing bowl and stir flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt.
- Put in another small bow and mix the buttermilk, eggs, and vanilla.
- In a saucepan, heat to boiling the water, butter, and cocoa powder.
- Pour the chocolate mixture when it has just boiled into the flour/sugar mixture and mix with electric mixer. Then add the buttermilk / egg mixture and stir some more. Then pour it all into the pan.
- I set timer to 20 minutes and if its not done then, check it at one minute intervals.
- Just as the brownies are about done, begin the frosting.
- First measure out the powdered sugar into a bowl.
- In a medium saucepan, combine the butter, buttermilk, and cocoa powder. Heat to boiling. Removed from heat, then add to the saucepan the powdered sugar. Pour on top of warm brownies.
Read read about how we ate these at our recent Field Tailgating Party.
