My friend Sylvia Joyce shared this recipe for chocolate mint brownies with me, and I thought it would be the perfect sweet finish for a Saint Patrick's Day lunch. This recipe is a Joyce family favorite. When I told 6-year-old Mary Ashley that our friend Rebecca Hatcher, Sylvia's daughter, wanted to serve these at her wedding, Mary Ashley said she wants them at her wedding too. She asked me to help her learn how to make them and has been carefully copying the recipe in a notebook -- quite an endeavor for a kindergartner! I think these mint chocolate brownies are now a Lester family favorite, too!
Chocolate Mint Brownies
3 (1-ounce) squares unsweetened chocolate
1/2 cup and 1 tablespoon margarine
2 eggs
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
Combine 2 squares chocolate and margarine in a small saucepan over low heat. Stir until melted. Let stand 10 minutes. Beat eggs until blended and gradually add sugar, beating well. Combine flour, baking powder and salt and add to creamed mixture. Add chocolate and melted margarine. Stir in vanilla. Bake in a lightly greased and floured 13-x-9 inch pan at 350 degrees for 15 minutes. Cool 10 minutes. Spread with mint frosting. Combine 1 square chocolate and 1 tablespoon margarine. Melt over low heat and drizzle over frosting. Chill at least 1 hour. Cut into small squares. Store in refrigerator.
Mint Frosting
1/4 cup margarine, melted
2 tablespoons milk
2 cups sifted powdered sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons peppermint flavoring
Green or pink food coloring
Combine ingredients and beat until smooth, adding a little more milk if needed to thin the icing.
10 comments:
How PRECIOUS that she is writing the recipe down. And how precious that ONE DAY you will frame that recipe to sit beside her brownies on a table where she will begin a new life. Oh how sweet this is...in more ways than one.
My mouth is watering just looking at them!
Oh Melissa, it makes my mouth water to look at that picture! I love the heart shapes. I am glad ya'll are enjoying the recipe. Remind me when Mary Ashley gets married to make them for her church shower. It will get here faster than you think!
Rebecca and I were writing our comments at the same time and said the same thing so it is very true!
I swear I can smell mint just by looking at those brownies! Yum!
Those look really good! I'm sure mine would not turn out so pretty as I am not proficient in baking but I may try to whip these up.
so beautiful! and yum!!
love the beach picture of your kiddos =)
How many eggs in this recipe? It says to beat in eggs, but it doesn't have eggs in the ingredients list. I want to make these this week, so any help would be wonderful! Thanks!
Laura, thanks for the comment! I have updated the ingredient list to include the 2 eggs needed to make the brownies. Thanks for pointingthis out!
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