Chocolate Chip Brownies

Chocolate Chip Brownies

Today I'm featuring another one of my Grandmother's recipes - Chocolate Chip Brownies.  I love this recipe because it is a fast, easy, crowd pleaser.  Let's get started!

Go ahead and preheat your oven to 350 degrees and grease an 8x8 pan.  Once you've done that go ahead and gather all your ingredients.

Once you have everything ready, go ahead and mix all the dry ingredients in a medium size mixing bowl.  This is a great step if you are baking with your kiddos.  I let my kids measure and mix.  I make them find the right size cups and spoons before we get started.  It's never to early to learn those fractions ;) 

The next part was my kiddos favorite part.  The melting of the butter!  Cutting, microwaving, and stirring - does it get any better?  Go ahead and melt your butter or margarine in a microwave safe bowl.  Once it's melted stir in the brown sugar. 

Once that mixture is cooled down add the egg and vanilla.  Stir until it's all mixed together.

Now it's time to combine the two bowls together.  Make a little well in the center of your dry ingredients and pour the wet ingredients in the middle.  Then stir everything up until it's well combined.

This is more stirring that your kiddos can help with!  Just make sure they don't eat the batter since it contains raw eggs. 

Pour your mixture into your greased pan and top with chocolate chips.  Don't worry about mixing them in, they will do that on their own while baking.

Bake for 20-25 minutes.  Here's what it looks like about 10 minutes in - you can see how the chips are getting absorbed by the brownie batter. 

While you are waiting you can have your kiddos help clean up!

Once they are cooled you can eat them just like brownies or you can serve them warmed up with some vanilla ice cream.  Either way - DELICIOUS!