Friday, February 14, 2014

Peanut Butter Brownies

These brownies bring back such good memories of tailgating with the Yonge's and fall SEC football! The recipe comes from the Pensacola Junior League cookbook "Some Like It South!".

1 cup butter
1/3 cup cocoa
2 cups sugar
4 eggs
1 ½ cups flour
½ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
 1 cup crunchy peanut butter

Preheat oven to 350°. Melt 1 cup butter and cocoa in double boiler. Cool. Blend in sugar and eggs. Combine flour, salt and vanilla; to this add first mixture. Bake in greased 13x9x2- inch pan for 20-30 minutes.
Spoon peanut butter over hot cake and spread while melting.

Frosting:
1/2 cup butter
1/4 cup cocoa
1/3 cup milk
8 large marshmallows
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 box confectioners' sugar, sifted

Melt together butter, cocoa, milk, marshmallows, salt and vanilla. Bear in confectioners' sugar. Spread over cooled peanut butter.

Yield: 4 dozen 1 1/2 inch squares

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