Flo Flo's Brownies

Origin

Credit

United States

(West Virginia)

Flo Flo

(A friend and neighbor of Beatrice "Bea Bea" Hill)

(Note from Gray: When I made this, it came out more like a soft chocolate cake - it wasn't dense, like brownies tend to be.)

Ingredients

    • 2 squares (2 oz) baking chocolate
    • ⅓ cup (~70 grams) butter
    • ⅔ cup unsifted flour
    • ½ tsp baking powder
    • ¼ tsp salt
    • 2 eggs
    • 1 cup sugar
    • 1 tsp vanilla
    • ½ cup chopped nuts

To Prepare

    1. Melt chocolate and butter in a saucepan on low heat
    2. Mix together salt, flour, and baking powder
    3. Beat eggs well, and gradually beat in sugar
    4. Blend chocolate mixture and vanilla into eggs, then add flour mixture and nuts
    5. Spread in greased 8 or 9" pan and bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes
    6. Cool and cut