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Sunday, March 14, 2010

Rocky Road Brownies

Rocky Road Brownies
By: Easy Baking Hershey’s Cocoa

1 ¼ cup Hershey’s semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 cup miniature marshmallows
½ cup chopped nuts
½ cup (1 stick) butter
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 eggs
½ cup flour
1/3 cup Hershey’s cocoa powder
½ teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon salt

Heat oven to 350

Grease 9-inch square baking dish.

Stir together chocolate chips, marshmallows, and nuts; set aside. Place butter in large microwavable-safe bowl. Microwave 1-1 ½ minutes or until melted. Add sugar, vanilla and eggs, beating with spoon until well blended. Add flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, and salt; blend well. Spread batter in prepared pan.

Bake 22 minutes. Sprinkle chocolate chip mixture over top. Continue baking 5 minutes or until marshmallows have softened and puffed slightly. Cool completely. With wet knife, cut into squares.

Makes about 18 brownies

Holiday Red Raspberry Chocolate Bars

Holiday Red Raspberry Chocolate Bars
By: Easy Baking Hershey’s Cocoa

2 ½ cups flour
1 cup granulated sugar
¾ cup finely chopped pecans
1 egg, beaten
1 cup (2 sticks) cold butter
1 jar (12oz) seedless red raspberry jam
1 2/3 cup Hershey’s Raspberry Chips

Heat oven to 350

Grease 9x13 glass baking dish.

Stir together flour, sugar, pecans and egg in large bowl. Cut in butter with pastry blender or fork until mixture resembles coarse crumbs; set aside 1 ½ cups crumb mixture. Press remaining crumb mixture on bottom of prepared pan. Stir jam until soften; carefully spread over crumb mixture. Sprinkle with raspberry chips. Crumble remaining crumb mixture evenly over top.

Bake 40-45 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool completely in pan on wire rack; cut into bars.

Makes 30 bars