Brownies+from+scratch

home This was my first recipe that I made from scratch. i got the following recipe from my mom's cookbook.

Ingredients
**This recipe included walnuts, which i decided to take out because they may differ the results from the test tasting of the 3 recipes. Taking them out would not differ the way the recipe would bake.
 * 2 cups white sugar
 * 1 cup butter
 * 1/2 cup cocoa powder
 * 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
 * 4 eggs
 * 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
 * 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
 * 1/2 teaspoon salt

After mixing and baking the brownies, I added powdered sugar on top.

Directions:
~melt the butter and stir up all the ingredients, adding them in the order given above. ~ bake at 350 degrees F for 20 to 30 minutes in a 9 x 13 inch greased pan.



RESULTS: I thought these brownies were good for the following reasons: -they tasted homemade, like they were. -I thought they tasted very chocolaty, but more like real chocolate than the brownies from a mix because real cocoa powder was used instead of artificial flavoring from a mix. -I liked the powdered sugar on top, which, however, and nothing to do with the baking of the brownies.

Some things I had trouble with were at first, the ingredients weren't mixing very well in the bowl. I think this could have been because there wasn't anything liquid in the whole thing, which made everything a little less moist.

Something I didn't like about them was that there wasn't much of any flavor besides chocolate such as vanilla, even though they were a plain brownie recipe. I did take out the nuts from the recipe, but I just expected to be a little more *wowed* by the taste.