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Brownies: Five-Star Brownies*

Source of Recipe

Pam Buerki Rogers


Recipe Introduction

"There's a bit of my state's history behind these brownies' name and shape. In 1990, when I entered them at our state fair, Kansas was celebrating the 100th birthday of a famous native son...Dwight Eisenhower. In fact, that occasion was the theme of the fair. So I renamed my brownies, which had won the blue ribbon 4 straight years at our county fair, in honor of the rank he'd achieved as a general and cut them out with a star cookie cutter. They ended up winning me another blue ribbon!"

List of Ingredients

3 eggs
2 cups sugar
1-1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/2 cup butter, melted
1/4 cup shortening, melted
1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup baking cocoa
1-1/4 teaspoons salt
1 cup chopped nuts, optional



Recipe

In a large mixing bowl, beat eggs, sugar and vanilla until blended. Beat in butter and shortening until smooth. Combine flour, cocoa and salt; gradually add to egg mixture. Stir in nuts if desired.

Line a 13-in. x 9-in. x 2-in. baking pan with foil and grease the foil; pour batter into pan. Bake at 350° for 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool in pan on a wire rack.

Using foil, lift brownies out of pan. Discard foil. Cut with a star cutter or into bars.

Yield: About 3 dozen