Chocolate-peppermint one-bowl brownies

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       Title: Chocolate-Peppermint One-Bowl Brownies
  Categories: Cookies
       Yield: 36 servings
  
       4 oz Unsweetened baking chocolate
            ; (4 squares)
     3/4 c  Butter or margarine
            ; (1 1/2 sticks)
       2 c  Granulated sugar
       3    Eggs
       1 ts Vanilla
       1 c  All-purpose flour
       1 c  Coarsely chopped nuts;
            -optional
       4    White baking chocolate
            ; (1-oz) melted
            Crushed peppermint candies
  
   Recipe by: St. Louis Post-Dispatch 12/2/96 Line a 13-by-9 inch pan with
   aluminum foil; grease the foil. Preheat oven to 350 degrees (325
 degrees
   for a glass pan).
   
   Microwave unsweetened chocolate and butter in large microwavable bowl
 on
   High power 2 minutes or until butter is melted. Stir until chocolate is
   completely melted.
   
   Stir sugar into chocolate until well-blended. Mix in eggs and vanilla.
 Stir
   in flour and nuts until well-blended. Spread in pan.
   
   Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out
 with
   fudgy crumbs. Do not overbake. Let cool in pan. Cut into 36 (2
   3/4-by-1-inch) sticks. Drizzle with melted white chocolate. Sprinkle
 with
   crushed peppermint candies.
   
   Yield: 3 dozen. These recipes are from Baker's.
  
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