Two Yummy Brownie Recipes!

Mom’s Brownies
(Grandma Lois’ -the brownie that is similar to BYU's)
2/3 cup butter
½ cup cocoa
2 cups sugar
1 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
4 eggs beaten well
1 ½ cups flour
***Can add 1 cup chopped nuts.

Melt the butter. Add cocoa, sugar and mix well. Beat the eggs and add to the sugar and cocoa mixture. Add the salt, vanilla and flour. Mix together. This does not need a lot of beating with a mixer. I don’t even use a mixer, just the pan I use to melt the butter in!
Pour into greased 9x13 pan and bake at 350 for 20-25 minutes. Watch! When cool, frost.

Helen Beck’s Mint Brownie
Given to me by Joy Alldredge who I taught school with in Utah
2 ¼ cup sugar
2 oz. honey
1 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
2 oz. cocoa
2 oz. unsweetened cocoa (melted)
1 ½ cups shortening
2 ½ cups cake flour (1 cup cake flour = ¾ cup flour + 2 TBSP cornstarch if don’t have cake flour)
1 cup eggs plus 2 more eggs
Chopped nuts (opt)

Mix dry ingredients, add shortening, honey, melted cocoa. Mix until blended, adding eggs last. Bake at 350 for 20-25 minutes. This makes a large cookie sheet pan.

Helen Beck’s Mint frosting:
1 lb powdered sugar
1/4 cup water
½ heaping cup pure vegetable shortening
1/2 scant tsp salt
Peppermint or mint flavoring,
**These brownies are so GOOD!!-very moist and just like the BYU brownie. Joy was a wedding caterer for years before she taught school .

Lauralyn’s frosting:
1 ½-2 cubes butter, depending on your taste
5-6 cups powdered sugar, & dash salt
2 tsp REAL vanilla
¼ cup cocoa
3-4 TBSP milk or canned milk
Mix the butter, sugar and milk to the right consistency. Divide the frosting BEFORE adding the cocoa. To half the frosting, add mint flavoring and green food coloring. To the other half, add the cocoa and vanilla. Mix each half well. Frost brownies first with the green frosting and then the chocolate frosting.