Ultimate Chocolate Brownies

Servings: 15
Ingredients:

3/4 c  Hershey's cocoa
1/2 ts Baking soda
2/3 c  Butter; melted and divided
1/2 c  Water; boiling
2 c  Sugar
2    Eggs
1 1/3 c  Flour
1 ts Vanilla
1/4 ts Salt
1 c  Mint or reg chocolate chips

6 tb Butter
1/2 c Hershey’s cocoa
2 2/3 c Confectioners sugar
1/3 c Milk
1 ts Vanilla

Preheat oven to 350~F. Grease 13×9′ pan. In medium bowl, combine
cocoa and baking soda; blend in 1/3 c melted butter. Add the boiling
water; stir until mixture thickens. Stir in sugar, eggs and remaining
1/3 c melted butter; stir until smooth. Add flour, vanilla and salt;
blend completely. Stir in chocolate chips; pour into prepared pan.
Bake 35-40 minutes or until brownies begin to pull away from sides of
pan. Cool completely; frost with Buttercream frosting. Cut into
squares.
Buttercream Frosting: Cream butter in small mixing bowl; add cocoa
and sugar alternately with milk. Beat to spreading consistency; blend
in vanilla.