Recipe - Mint Iced Brownies

BROWNIE LAYER
One half cup Butter or margarine
1 cup Sugar
2 Eggs
1 teaspoon Vanilla
2 1oz Squares unsweetened
Chocolate
One half cup Finely chopped pecans
One half cup Flour sifted
MINT LAYER
4 tablespoon Butter or margarine
1 One half cup Powdered sugar
3 tablespoon Evaporated milk
1 teaspoon Peppermint flavoring
1 small Drop green coloring
CHOCOLATE ICING
4 ounce Semisweet chocolate
1 tablespoon Butter or margarine

BROWNIE LAYER: Cream soft butter with sugar. Add eggs one at a time and mix
until creamy. Stir in vanilla and nuts. Gradually stir in flour; being
careful not to overmix.

In microwave, melt chocolate 23 minutes in small glass measuring cup,
stirring after 1 One half minutes. Stir chocolate into batter evenly. Pour
batter into greased 8inch square casserole. Spread evenly. Cook 78
minutes on high, rotating after 3 minutes. Allow to cool.

MINT LAYER: Cream butter and sugar. Add milk and blend until creamy. Add
flavoring and enough color to be light green. Carefully spread over cooled
brownies, evenly. Allow mint layer to "firm up" before adding chocolate
layer. CHOCOLATE LAYER: Melt in glass measure cup for 23 minutes. Stir
after 1 minute. Allow to cool and spread over firm mint layer. Spread
carefully so mint and brownie layers are not disturbed. allow to stand
several hours. Cut into squares to serve.

I usually bake a 9 X 13 pan of brownies from a mix! Double the mint and
chocolate icing recipes. This is a very popular brownie! Wonderful for St.
Pat's and Christmas parties.... and just about anytime! Formatted by SALlie
Kratz, GENIE. Shared on alt. creativecook and alt. creativecooking by
Judi M. Phelps.

Internet: jphelps@shell. portal. com or juphelps@delphi. com

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From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini