Texas Brownies

Total Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 2 cups flour
• 2 cups sugar
• 1/2 cup butter or 1/2 cup margarine
• 1/2 cup shortening
• 1 cup strong brewed coffee or 1 cup water
• 1/4 cup dark unsweetened cocoa
• 1/2 cup buttermilk
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/2 cup butter or 1/2 cup margarine
• 2 tablespoons dark cocoa
• 1/4 cup milk
• 3 1/2 cups unsifted powdered sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Recipe

• 1 in a large mixing bowl, combine the flour and sugar.
• 2 in heavy saucepan, combine butter, shortening, coffee, and cocoa. stir and heat to boiling.
• 3 pour boiling mixture over the flour and sugar in the bowl. add the buttermilk, eggs, baking soda, and vanilla.
• 4 mix well using a wooden spoon, or high speed on an electric mixer.
• 5 pour into a well buttered 17x11 jelly roll pan.
• 6 bake at 400f for 20 minutes, or until brownies test done in the center.
• 7 while brownies bake, prepare frosting. in a saucepan, combine the butter, cocoa and milk. heat to boiling, stirring.
• 8 mix in the powdered sugar and vanilla until frosting is smooth.
• 9 pour warm frosting over brownies as soon as you take them out of the oven. cool. cut into 48 bars.
• 10 tip: if you don't have buttermilk on hand, substitute 1/2 cup milk with 2 teaspoons vinegar or lemon juice. or you can use powdered buttermilk.