Chocolate Week Warms Up with Commercial Brownies

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Celebrate two hundred posts with a week of treats.

The friend who gave me this recipe said I’d hate her for it, because they’re so easy to make. It really is possible to mix up a batch during a commercial break on television.

Heat the oven to 350 degrees. The oven can be the toaster variety or whatever else you bake in.

Melt five tablespoons of unsalted butter and five and a third tablespoons of cocoa in a saucepan. Circumstances permitting, melt in a mixing bowl. Add one cup of sugar, two eggs, one tablespoon of vanilla, and three-quarters of a cup of flour. Stir to mix.

Choose a baking dish. This is a forgiving recipe, so it doesn’t much matter how deep the layer of batter is, as long as it’s not too thin or thick. Spray the dish with non-stick oil, fill it, and bake until the batter pulls away from the sides of the pan and/or a tester comes out clean, usually, until the next commercial or for twenty minutes or so.

These brownies are good made without salt. Substituting oil for butter will reduce the amount of saturated fat in them. Make the regular recipe a couple of times to get the feel of things.

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