Ultimate chocolate brownies

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       Title: Ultimate Chocolate Brownies
  Categories: Squares, Cookies
       Yield: 15 servings
  
            Judy bowen wssn92a
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     3/4 c  Hershey's cocoa
     1/2 ts Baking soda
     2/3 c  Butter; melted and divided
     1/2 c  Boiling water
       2 c  Sugar
       2    Eggs
   1 1/3 c  Flour
       1 ts Vanilla
     1/4 ts Salt
       1 c  Mint or reg chocolate chips
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            Frosting-----------
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       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. Grease 13 x 9 x 2" 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. These won 2nd place in
   the
     1989 Del Mar Fair Kids Cookie Contest.
  
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