Cocoa Brownies

One of my sisters passed along this Smitten Kitchen brownie recipe, it is easy and so delicious as you can picture from the photo above. It uses a half a cup of butter along with cocoa powder instead of chocolate.

Here is what I did:

pre-heat the oven 325F (I did 300F in my hot oven)

Ingredients:

1/2 c butter

 1 c sugar

3/4 c plus 2 tbs cocoa powder

1/4 tsp salt

1/2 tsp vanilla

2 eggs

1/2 c flour

I microwaved the butter, sugar, cocoa powder and salt in a heat proof bowl for 1 minute 20 seconds.  Then I mixed in the vanilla and eggs.  Then I beat in the flour.  

I baked the mixture in a 9 inch pan lined with parchment paper for 20 min at 300F.  The recipe said 20-2 mins at 325F.  It makes 16 small squares.