William Pollock's Eat Happy: The Challenge Butter Spicy Hot Cocoa Brownies

Yield:

16 squares

Prep time:

30 minutes + 35-40 minutes baking

Notes

Hey, no doubt when you see a recipe for brownies on the back of the butter packaging you know you are on to a good deal. My friends and I like to go to Sea Ranch on occasion, requiring us to immediately put on about fifteen pounds of butter to keep environmental equlibrium.

Anyways, these sounded sure-fire killer for these and it was a coolish spring night when I busted these out and found them to be less sadly spicy than the Spi-C-Mint they serve at my local pizza joint but still with a little zip.

Ingredients

3/4 cup	softened salted butter, (1 1/2 US sticks)
2 cups	sugar
1/4+ tsp	red pepper
4	eggs
1 1/2 tsp	vanilla
1 cup	flour
3/4 cup	unsweetened cocoa powder
1 1/2 tsp	cinnamon
1/4 tsp	salt
1/2 cup	chopped walnuts, optional

Preparation

Butter a 9"x9" baking pan & preheat oven to 350F. Cream butter. Cream sugar and red pepper into butter. Beat in eggs and vanilla(*). Sift together flour, cocoa, cinnamon and salt and fold into creamed mixture until evenly mixed.

Spread evenly in buttered pan and top with walnuts as desired (I do 4 corners of nutted and un-nutted for thems who don't like nuts and nutted to keep thems who don't like nuts off my half).

Bake for 35-40 minutes. Cool/serve.

* A step Challenge left out.

Primary Category:

Desserts

Seconary Categories:

**New06
Made For Butter
Makes You Fat

Source:

Challenge Butter, Northern California, Feb, 2005.