Make a brownie base and then indulge the sweet tooth with two more layers of decadence. Find the rest of the ingredients when you click “continue reading”.
Brownie Ingredients:
- 1 C sugar
- 1/2 C margarine or butter, softened
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 2 eggs
- 2/3 C all-purpose flour
- 1/2 C cocoa
- 1/2 C chopped walnuts
- 1/2 tsp. baking powder
- 1/2 tsp. salt
Directions:
Heat oven to 350. Mix sugar, butter, vanilla, and eggs. Stir in remaining ingredients. Spread in greased square pan. Bake until done, maybe about 30 minutes.
Mint Layer Ingredients:
- 3 C powdered sugar
- 1/3 C margarine or butter, softened
- 1/4 C milk
- 1/4 tsp. peppermint extract
- 1 1/2 squares unsweetened chocolate (or a heaping cup of chocolate chips)
Directions:
Mix sugar, butter, milk, and peppermint until creamy. Spread over the brownies. Melt the chocolate (chips) in a double boiler, microwave, or stir lots in a regular saucepan with a dollop of shortening. Spread over Mint Layer. Refrigerate or freeze until set.
Comments:
For Grasshopper bars, substitute the milk and peppermint for 2 Tbls. créme de menthe and 2 Tbls. créme de cacao. For Emerald Magic, bars add some green food coloring.
This recipe was adapted from a few photocopied pages of the Betty Crocker’s Cookbook. Kate Grant gave them to me. She has been mistaken for me or perhaps my sister many a time. We actually had matching mini-vans for years. Bob met her first. Before I met her, I gave her a huge pile of my maternity clothes after Ari was born. She gave me a huge pile of her maternity clothes after her Charlie was born. Her husband, Will, has been Zach’s boss for years and we all get along well on skiing trips and BBQ’s at the bus and river rafting days. It’s good to have friends as close as family when family is so far away.