Broadway Brownies

The kids love, love, love to make brownies. And eat them. Copious amounts of them.  While left to their own devices, these chocolaty pillows of pleasure would come from a box, but Mamma Bear often intrudes and encourages them "scratch it."

Here's what we came up with the other night. We dubbed them Broadway Brownies, because I was talking about my experience with Broadway in Bryant Park, and because after eating we decided they were Award Winning!

Ingredients:

• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 2 cup sugar
• 2 teaspoon vanilla
• 4 large eggs
• 1⁄2 teaspoon baking powder
• 2⁄3 cup cocoa powder
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup flour
• 1 cup chocolate chips
• 1 cup walnuts
• powdered sugar

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350°.
2. Mix oil and sugar until well blended.
3. Add eggs and vanilla; stir just until blended.
4. Mix all dry ingredients in a separate bowl.
5. Stir dry ingredients into the oil/sugar mixture.
6. Mix in chocolate chips and walnuts
7. Pour into greased 9 x 13 pan.
8. Bake for 25 minutes or until sides just start to pull away from the pan.
9. Cool completely before cutting.