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This recipe screams with calories! Very rich, very good, and very fattening.



Dieters Beware Brownies Recipe

Recipe Type: Cookies, Christmas Cookie, Chocolate, Brownies
Yields: 2 dozen bars

Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 20 min


Ingredients:

1 (1-ounce) square unsweetened chocolate
1/4 cup butter
1 egg
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1 cups chopped nuts (of your choice)
Second Layer (see recipe below)
Third Layer (see recipe below)


Preparation:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly butter a 9-inch square pan, or one of these new and interesting types of brownie pans.

In the top of a double boiler over hot water, combine chocolate with butter; stir until melted. Learn different techniques for How To Melt Chocolate.

In a small bowl, beat egg and sugar; slowly beat into chocolate mixture. Stir in flour and nuts. Remove from heat and spread onto bottom of prepared pan.

Bake 20 minutes, remove from oven, and let cool on a wire cooling rack.

Prepare Second Layer. Spread evenly onto top of cooled first layer.

Prepared Third Layer. Drizzle over the top of Second Layer, tilting pan so that chocolate covers the white cream layer completely and evenly. Refrigerate 30 minutes or until chocolate is hardened.

Cut into 2-inch squares and remove from pan.

Yields 2 dozen bars.


Second Layer:
1/4 cup butter, room temperature
2 cups powdered (confectioner's)
sugar
1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
3 to 4 tablespoons whipping or heavy cream

In a medium bowl, cream butter and powdered sugar until light and fluffy. Stir in vanilla extract and enough cream to make mixture spreadable.
 

Third Layer:

1 (1-ounce) square unsweetened chocolate
1/4 cup butter

In the top of a double boiler over hot water, melt chocolate and butter. Remove from heat and